African Journal of
Pharmacy and Pharmacology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Pharm. Pharmacol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0816
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJPP
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 2277

Full Length Research Paper

Immune stimulating activity of water-soluble polysaccharide fractions from Dendrobium nobile Lindl.

Aoxue Luo and Yijun Fan*    
Department of Landscape Plants, Sichuan Agriculture University, Chengdu 611130, China.    
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 21 April 2011
  •  Published: 31 May 2011

Abstract

Four water-soluble polysaccharides (DNP1-1, DNP2-1, DNP3-1 and DNP4-2) were obtained from the aqueous extracts of the stems of Dendrobium nobile Lindl. by hot water extraction, ethanol precipitation, and fractionated by DEAE-cellulose ion exchange chromatography and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration chromatography. The evaluation of tumor inhibition and immunomodulatory activity suggested that DNP4-2 could significantly increase the immune index, and strongly promote the secretion of IL-2, TNF-α and IFN-γ, and also decrease the concentrations of MDA in blood serum. DNP4-2 should be explored as a potential anti-tumor drug.

 

Key words: Dendrobium nobile Lindl., immune stimulating, polysaccharide.