Study on antiviral activity and characteristic spectrum of phenolic fraction of Mentha haplocalyx / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the anti-influenza virus effect of phenolic fraction of Mentha haplocalyx in vitro, and to establish the HPLC characteristic spectrum of phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx for its quality evaluation. Methods MTT method was used to detect the inhibitory effect of phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx on influenza virus PR8 infecting MDCK cells in three ways, including adding drug firstly, adding drug and virus simultaneously and adding virus firstly. The characteristic spectrum of phenolic fraction samples of 12 batches of M. haplocalyx was established by HPLC method. The similarity of which was analyzed with Similarity Evaluation System for Chromatographic Fingerprint of Chinese Materia Medica (2.0 version). Results The phenolic fraction at 0.31—10 μg/mL showed antivirus PR8 activities in different degrees under three adding drug ways. Phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx at six dilution concentrations displayed obvious antivirus PR8 effect under two adding drug ways including adding drug firstly and adding virus firstly, and virus inhibition rates of which were 14.17%—41.31% and 45.64%—87.48%, respectively. Total of 11 peaks were chosen as the common characteristic peaks of spectrum with the similarity degrees more than 0.9 of 12 batches of samples, which illustrated that different batches of phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx were of high similarity. Conclusion Phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx had better antiviral effect in vitro. The characteristic spectrum method established in this paper was simple, stable and reproducible, which could reflect the whole profile of phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx and provide reference for quality control and efficacy stability of phenolic fraction of M. haplocalyx.