Assessment ofin-vitrocholinesterase inhibitory and thrombolytic potential of bark and seed extracts ofTamarindus indica(L.) relevant to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and clotting disorders.
BACKGROUND
Low level of acetylcholine (ACh) is an important hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a common type of progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Effective treatment strategies rely mostly on either enhancing the cholinergic function of the brain by improving the level of ACh from being a breakdown by cholinesterase enzymes. Again atherothrombosis is major life-threatening cerebral diseases. TraditionallyTamarindus indica(L.) has widely known for its medicinal values. Our aim is to investigate the cholinesterase inhibitory activities as well as thrombolytic activities of the bark and seeds crude methanolic extracts (CMEs) in the treatment of AD and clotting disorder.


METHODS
The crude methanol extract was prepared by cold extraction method and was assessed for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) inhibitory activities by the Ellman's method. For thrombolytic activity clot lysis method was applied.


RESULTS
To compare both the fractions, extracts from the bark got more AChE inhibitory activity than the seed with the inhibitory concentration 50% IC50values of 268.09 and 287.15 µg/ml, respectively. The inhibitory activity of BuChE was quiet similar to that of AChE as IC50values of both the fractions were 201.25 and 254.71 µg/ml. Againin-vitrothrombolytic activity of bark was 30.17% and of seed it was 22.53%.


CONCLUSIONS
The results revealed that the CME of bark and seed both have moderate cholinesterases inhibitory activities as well as thrombolytic activities, worth of further investigations to identify the promising molecule(s) potentially useful in the treatment of AD as well as in clotting disorders.
Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kushal
K
Biswas
Department of Pharmacy, Bangladesh University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A K
AK
Azad
Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Taposhi
T
Sultana
Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Farzana
F
Khan
Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Saiyara
S
Hossain
Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sanzida
S
Alam
Department of Pharmacy, Bangladesh University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Rayhan
R
Chowdhary
Department of Pharmacy, Bangladesh University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Yasmin
Y
Khatun
Alzheimer’s disease; Tamarindus indica; cholinesterase inhibition; clotting disorder; thrombolysis