Title
Activity of Lepidium meyenii Walp (purple maca) in immunosuppressed Oryctolagus cuniculus (albino rabbits)
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
Various properties are attributed to “maca”, including immunomodulatory properties due to its secondary metabolites such as macamides, glucosinolates, isothiocyanates and flavonoids. Immunosuppression, hemolytic anemia, and thymic involution were induced with cyclophosphamide. Three concentrations of doses of dehydrated hydroalcoholic extract of purple maca (EHADM) were used for 30 days, the analysis of variance and Duncan's multiple comparisons test the results are statistically significant (p<.05) which shows immunostimulatory activity in the marrow bone (monocytes, lymphocytes and white blood cells) and antianemic (hematocrit 31%) compared to the negative control group (G-1). At 84 mg/kg and at 167 mg/kg, it shows immunomodulatory activity on the humoral response in 66.70% of the experimental animals (G-3 and G-4). It is concluded that the dehydrated hydroalcoholic extract of purple maca presents immunostimulating and immunomodulatory activity on the humoral response in 66.7% of the Oryctolagus cuniculus induced to immunodeficiency with cyclophosphamide.
Start page
501
End page
507
Volume
69
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia Química medicinal Ciencia veterinaria Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131742479
Source
Pharmacia
ISSN of the container
04280296
Sponsor(s)
Peruvian Association of Immunogenomics and Personalized Medicine; Molecular Pharmacology Society of Peru.
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