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Autor: search.filters.author.Braga, Fernão CastroAssunto: search.filters.subject.Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

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    Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition by Brazilian plants.
    (2007) Braga, Fernão Castro; Serra, Carla Penido; Viana Júnior, Nilton de Souza; Oliveira, Alaíde Braga de; Côrtes, Steyner de França; Lombardi, Júlio Antônio
    The potential antihypertensive activity of Brazilian plants was evaluated in vitro by its ability to inhibit the angiotensinconverting enzyme (ACE). Forty-four plants belonging to 30 families were investigated. Plants were selected based on their popular use as antihypertensive and/or diuretics. The following plants presented significant ACE inhibition rates: Calophyllum brasiliense, Combretum fruticosum, Leea rubra, Phoenix roebelinii and Terminalia catappa.
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    Validation of a colorimetric assay for the in vitro screening of inhibitors of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) from plant extracts.
    (2005) Serra, Carla Penido; Côrtes, Steyner de França; Lombardi, Júlio Antônio; Oliveira, Alaíde Braga de; Braga, Fernão Castro
    Anew method for the in vitro screening of plant extracts with potential angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity is proposed. The method is based on the cleavage of the substrate hippuryl-glycyl-glycine by ACE and subsequent reaction with trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid to form 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl-glycyl-glycine, whose absorbance is determined at 415nm in a microtitre plate reader. Rabbit lung dehydrated by acetone was employed as an enzyme source. Validation of the method showed satisfactory intra-day (CV ¼ 7.63%) and inter-day precision (CV ¼ 13.61%), recovery (97–102.1%), sensitivity (IC50 ¼ 14.1 nmol/l) and linearity in the range 7.5–120 mmol/l of glycyl-glycine (r2 ¼ 0:9921). Besides, the method showed good correlation with a HPLC assay already established for the screening of ACE inhibitors (r ¼ 0:9935 and 0:9034; respectively, for captopril solutions and for plant extracts). The method involves only inexpensive reagents and apparatus.