Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2019-0040

Influence of flavonoids’ lipophilicity on platelet aggregation

IVANA BABIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
MIRZA BOJIĆ orcid.org/0000-0002-8381-9577 ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
ŽELJAN MALEŠ ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
RENATA ZADRO ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia; University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
KORALJKA GOJČETA ; Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
IVAN DUKA ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
HRVOJE RIMAC ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
IRENA JUKIĆ ; Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Flavonoids are natural polyphenolic compounds present in a wide spectrum of plants that have a beneficial effect on human health. In the context of cardiovascular diseases related to plaque and thrombus formation, flavonoids exhibit an antiaggregatory effect. Previously, it has been reported that all tested flavonoids exhibit an antiaggregatory effect on platelet aggregation when measured by impedance aggregometry on whole blood, in the test of aggregation induced by adenosine diphosphate (ADP). As not all flavonoids have the same targets within signaling pathways, an assumption of a common non-specific mechanism related to lipophilicity is to be considered. To test this hypothesis, reverse-phase thin layer chromatography was used to assess the lipophilicity of flavonoids; impedance aggregometry was used for testing of platelet aggregation and flow cytometry to monitor the influence of flavonoids on platelet activation. Lipophilicity analysis showed a highly negative correlation of logP and MINaAC for groups of flavones and flavanones. As determined by flow cytometry, the exposition of receptors necessary for the promotion of platelet activation and primary clot formation was diminished, i.e., lowered expression of the activated form of integrin αIIbβ3 was observed in the presence of flavanones. Platelet membrane stabilization by flavonoids as a mechanism of antiaggregatory effect has been supported by impedance aggregometry experiments when specific inhibitors of platelet aggregation signaling pathways (U73122, indomethacin, verapamil) were used in the presence of a weak (ADP) and a strong (TRAP-6) agonist of aggregation. While individual flavonoids can have specific targets within aggregation signaling pathways, all flavonoids share a common non-specific mechanism of platelet aggregation inhibition related to their lipophilicity and membrane stabilization that, to some extent, contributes to their antiaggregatory effect.

Keywords

flavonoids; platelets; lipophilicity; flow cytometry; antiaggregatory activity

Hrčak ID:

225429

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225429

Publication date:

31.12.2019.

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