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  2. New insight of red seaweed derived Callophycin A as an alternative strategy to treat drug resistance vaginal candidiasis

New insight of red seaweed derived Callophycin A as an alternative strategy to treat drug resistance vaginal candidiasis

  • Bioorg Chem. 2020 Nov;104:104256. doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104256.
Arumugam Ganeshkumar 1 Suvaiyarasan Suvaithenamudhan 2 Elaiyappillai Elanthamilan 3 Ganesan Arun 1 Gowrisivam Anbusivam Bharathi Dileepan 3 Nagarajan Prabhusaran 4 Rajendran Rajaram 5
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Affiliations

  • 1 DNA Barcoding and Marine Genomics Laboratory, Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • 2 Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • 3 Department of Chemistry, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • 4 Department of Microbiology, Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Tiruchirapalli, India.
  • 5 DNA Barcoding and Marine Genomics Laboratory, Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: drrajaram69@rediffmail.com.
Abstract

Marine natural products are recognised as one among the major contributors of several important biological functions. The arguments has made to utilization of Natural Products against different kinds of infectious diseases. In the present study, Callophycin A was successfully prepared and its anti-candidal activity was evaluated through in-vitro and in-vivo methods. The in-vitro results revealed that, Callophycin A significantly inhibits the azole resistant and sensitive C. albicans. Further, in-vivo animal experiments have shown the effective reduction in CFU of C. albicans from its beginning day of the treatment as compared to the disease control group. At the end of Callophycin A administration, there was a decrease in inflammatory response and immune molecules such as IL-6, IL-12, IL-17, IL-22, TNF-α, macrophages, CD4 and CD8 cells were observed. Whereas the Animals in the disease control group expressed all the parameters with the elevated level as compared to the control group. There are no hematological abnormalities such as neutropenia, lymphocytosis and eosinophilia was observed in any animal groups except the disease control group. Finally, the evidence based prediction of anti-candidal efficacious of Callophycin A was demonstrated.

Keywords

Callophycin A; Candida albicans; Drug resistance; Interleukins; Marine natural products.

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