Antiasthma biological potency applied for Ephadra Herba quality evaluation
10.7501/j.issn.0253-2670.2015.24.015
- Author:
Yun-Sheng ZHAO
1
Author Information
1. College of Pharmacy, Ningxia Medical University
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Antiasthma;
Antispasmodic effect;
Biological potency;
D-pseudephedrine;
Ephedra Herba;
Ephedrine;
Quality evaluation
- From:
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
2015;46(24):3695-3703
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: To study the anti-asthma action and biological potency differences of Ephedra Herba from 37 different habitats. Methods: Taking the isolated tracheal smooth muscle from guinea pig to establish antiasthma pharmacological model, the ephedra decoction at different concentration was added to the sink by cumulative metrology method, antispasmodic percentage and biological potency value of Ephedra Herba from different habitats were calculated and the cluster analysis for the biological potency value of Ephedra Herba from different habitats was conducted. Results: Ephedra Herba had the antispasmodic acction to the isolated tracheal smooth muscle of guinea pig caused by histamine phosphate, and compared with the control medicine, Ephedra Herba from 20 habitats showed significant differences (P < 0.05), and the antispasmodic acction of Ephedra Herba was in a dose-dependent manner with administered concentration, when the concentration was raised and the antispasmodic percentage increased, and there were no significant difference in the antispasmodic percentage between Ephedra sinica and E. intermedia (P > 0.05); Compared with the control medicine, the antiasthma biological potency of Ephedra Herba from 37 different habitats existed significant or very significant differences (P < 0.05, 0.01), and the antiasthma biological potency value was 22.35-489.04 U/g, while FL% was 13.15%-38.97%, which revealed that the high potency level had a difference of 21.88 times from the low one. And the antiasthma biological potency of Ephedra Herba had lowly significant correlation differences with the total determination of ephedrine and D-pseudephedrine; The Ephedra Herba with different antiasthma biological potency could be identified by cluster analysis method, in which the biological potency from 24 ones in total of 37 Ephedra Herba was higher than that in the control medicine and accounted for 64.86% of the total samples. Conclusion: The anti-asthma biological potency value of Ephedra Herba could quantitatively evaluate the quality of Ephedra Herba from different habitats.
