Aliquots of extracts from ethnopharmacological plants that have activity against the effects of sarafotoxins present in snake venom are isolated and identified as antagonists of endothelin using a fluorescence-based assay. A process is provided for the identification of an antagonist of an endothelin selected from the group consisting of endothelin-1, endothelin-2, endothelin-3 and mixtures thereof. The process comprises extraction of ethnopharmacological plants with a solvent followed by evaporation of the solvent to form an aliquot containing at least one component of the extract, optionally purifying and isolating one or more component by chromatography, and subjecting the aliquot or purified component to a competitive fluorescent binding assay using biotinylated endothelin-1, wherein the plants having activity against the effects of one or more sarafotoxins present in snake venom.
利用基于荧光的检测方法,从具有对抗蛇毒中的沙拉福毒素的活性的民族药用植物中分离出等分
提取物,并将其鉴定为内皮素的
拮抗剂。提供了一种用于鉴定内皮素
拮抗剂的工艺,该内皮素
拮抗剂选自内皮素-1、内皮素-2、内皮素-3 及其混合物组成的组。该工艺包括用溶剂萃取民族药用植物,然后蒸发溶剂以形成含有萃取物中至少一种成分的等分物,可选地通过色谱法纯化和分离一种或多种成分,并使用
生物素化内皮素-1对等分物或纯化的成分进行竞争性荧光结合测定,其中植物具有对抗蛇毒中一种或多种沙拉福毒素作用的活性。