[Effects of eugenol and derivatives on Biomphalaria glabrata]

Rev Bras Biol. 1991 May;51(2):295-9.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

Biomphalaria glabrata snails and egg-masses were exposed, for six to twenty-four hours to concentrations of 1, 10, 100 and 1000 ppm of Eugenol, O-methyleugenol, O-benzyleugenol and dehydrodieugenol. Only at 10 ppm O-benzyleugenol enhanced mortality of snails and egg-masses. The other substances showed ovicidal and molluscicidal activity only at 100 and 1000 ppm concentrations, causing a significant cardiac frequency reduction in snails after 6 to 24 hours of exposure as well as perduring low cardiac rates until 24 hours afterwards. Two specimen exposed to 100 ppm O-methyleugenol presented anesthetic effect and extrusion of copulator and urethral organs. No schistosomicide or anesthetic effects were observed in mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni and treated during 5 days with oral doses of 150 mg/kg of Eugenol, O-methyleugenol and O-benzyleugenol.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Animals
  • Biomphalaria / drug effects*
  • Eugenol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Eugenol / pharmacology*
  • Heart Rate / drug effects
  • Mice
  • Ovum / drug effects*
  • Schistosoma mansoni / drug effects
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Eugenol