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Biodistribution properties of cleistanthin A and cleistanthin B using magnetic resonance imaging in a normal and tumoric animal model

Subramani Parasuraman1★, Ramasamy Raveendran1, Mehdi Shafiee Ardestani2, Ananthakrishnan Ramesh3, Ali Jabbari-Arabzadeh2, Mohammad Shafiee Alavidjeh2, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi2, Sundararajan Elangovan3, Halanaik Dhanapathi4★ Corresponding author

  1. 1Departments of Pharmacology, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.
  2. 2Nanobiotechnology and Hepatitis B/AIDs, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
  3. 3Radiodiagnosis and.
  4. 4Nuclear Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.

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Subramani Parasuraman

Departments of Pharmacology, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.

Received: 23-08-2011; Revised: 05-10-2011.

Volume 8, Issue 30 · pp. 129–134 · PUBLISHED 23 May 2012 · DOI: 10.4103/0973-1296.96559

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Aim: To determine the biodistribution properties of cleistanthin A and cleistanthin B in rodents using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Materials and Methods: Cleistanthins A and B, constituents of Cleistanthus collinus Roxb., were labelled with gadolinium (Gd3+) directly and injected into normal and tumoric nude mice. The tissue signal intensity was measured using MRI to perform a noninvasive kinetic assay. Wistar rats were used for determination of the grayscale intensity to observe the distribution patterns of of cleistanthins A and B. Results: Cleistanthin A is kinetically more attractive to the gastrointestinal tract than is cleistanthin B, which gets accumulated in muscular tissues of mice in greater concentrations compared with cleistanthin A. Cleistanthin B but not cleistanthin A showed tumoric affinity and exhibited a tumor kinetic attraction in tumoric mice. In rats, cleistanthin A showed greater grayscale intensities in the brain, liver, and skeletal muscles in immediate post contrast MRI images, whereas the gadolinium tagged cleistanthin B showed higher grayscale intensities in the cardiac muscle and skeletal muscles in delayed post contrast MRI images. Conclusions: Cleistanthin A is more pharmacokinetically attractive to the gastrointestinal tract than cleistanthin B.

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    Parasuraman, S., Raveendran, R., Ardestani, M. S., Ramesh, A., Jabbari-Arabzadeh, A., Alavidjeh, M. S., Aghasadeghi, M. R., Elangovan, S., & Dhanapathi, H. (2012). Biodistribution properties of cleistanthin A and cleistanthin B using magnetic resonance imaging in a normal and tumoric animal model. Pharmacognosy Magazine, 8(30), 129–134. https://doi.org/10.4103/0973-1296.96559