Planta Med 2015; 81(06): 495-506
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1545884
Original Papers
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Revealing Medicinal Plants That Are Useful for the Comprehensive Management of Epilepsy and Associated Comorbidities through In Silico Mining of Their Phytochemical Diversity

Rajesh Kumar Goel
1   Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
,
Dinesh Gawande
1   Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
,
Alexey Lagunin
2   Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
,
Puneet Randhawa
1   Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
,
Awanish Mishra
1   Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
,
Vladimir Poroikov
2   Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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Publikationsverlauf

received 11. Juli 2014
revised 24. Februar 2015

accepted 27. Februar 2015

Publikationsdatum:
09. April 2015 (online)

Abstract

In silico techniques in drug discovery may rationalise and speed up the identification of lead molecules from nature. Drug discovery from medicinal plants has mostly been confined to indications in accordance with their ethnical use only. However, the availability of multiple phytoconstituents in medicinal plants suggests that these may be much more useful beyond their traditional uses and in the management of chronic diseases, along with their comorbidities. In this study, the computer programmes PASS and PharmaExpert were used to reveal the medicinal plants useful in the comprehensive management of epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders based on the pleiotropic effects predicted for their phytoconstituents. In silico analysis revealed that seven of 50 medicinal plants from traditional Indian medicine possessed the desired pleiotropic effect, i.e., anticonvulsant, antidepressant, and nootropic activities. The majority of phytoconstituents from Passiflora incarnata were concurrently predicted to have the desired pleiotropic effects. Therefore, P. incarnata was pharmacologically validated using the pentylenetetrazole kindling mouse model. Behavioural and neurochemical evaluations confirmed the ameliorative role of P. incarnata in epilepsy and the associated depression and memory deficit. The pharmacological findings from this study propose that PASS and PharmaExpert may serve as good tools for the optimisation of the selection of plants based on their phytoconstituents for the treatment of different ailments, even beyond their traditional use.

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