title: Study on baths with crude drug. III. The effect of ligustici chuanxiong rhizoma extract on the percutaneous absorption of some natural compounds.
abstract: To investigate the permeability of natural compounds through hairless mouse skin, compounds having a range of lipophilicity, i.e., ginsenoside-Re (1), baicalein (2), glycyrrhizin (3), baicalein (4), wogonin (5), honokiol (6), magnolol (7), bergapten (8), shikonin (9) and sinomenine (10) were used. These compounds permeated through the skin a little, however, they were generally accumulated into the skin. The uptake amount into the skin of each compound related to their lipophilicities in the in vitro experiment. Furthermore, Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Senkyu) ether extract (SEE) enhanced their permeability into the skin; especially, it exhibited an effect on the skin permeability of moderately lipophilic compounds such as 4, 8. The effect of SEE in vivo was similar to that obtained in the in vitro experiment. From these results, it was clarified that natural compounds having high lipophilicity sufficiently permeated into the hairless mouse skin owing to their accumulative property, and SEE enhanced the permeability of the moderately lipophilic compounds into the skin.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Wakan-Yaku (Traditional Sino-Japanese Medicines), Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sekiya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kadota
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Namba
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001494:Baths; D005260:Female; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D051379:Mice; D008812:Mice, Hairless; D010539:Permeability / Q000187:drug effects; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012869:Skin Absorption / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts