Therapeutic effects of cinnamaldehyde and potentiation of its efficacy in combination with methylcellulose on murine oral candidiasis.

Abstract

We examined the therapeutic effects of cinnamaldehyde and the potentiation of those effects with cassia and cinnamaldehyde when combined with the food additive methylcellulose against murine oral candidiasis. When 19.5mg/ml of cinnamaldehyde was administered in the oral cavity of Candida infected mice, the oral symptoms were improved. Furthermore, when either a cassia or a cinnamaldehyde preparation in combination with methylcellulose was administered to oral candidiasis-inflicted mice, the therapeutic effects of cassia or cinnamaldehyde potentiated. Methylcellulose itself did not affect the oral symptoms or the viable number of C. albicans cells. GC/MS analysis showed that the dose of cinnamaldehyde remaining in the tongue tissue of mice treated with the cinnamaldehyde-methylcellulose mixture was higher than that in mice administered cinnamaldehyde alone, and also showed that cinnamaldehyde was not detected in the blood of any of the tested mice. These findings suggested that the combination of cassia or cinnamaldehyde and methylcellulose may be a useful prophylactic or therapeutic tool against oral candidiasis.

• Authors: Yuuki Taguchi, Kazumi Hayama, Masashi Okada, Takehito Sagawa, Ryo Arai, Shigeru Abe
• Journal: Medical mycology journal (Med Mycol J) Vol. 52 Issue 2 Pg. 145-52 ( 2011) ISSN: 1882-0476 [Electronic] Japan
• PMID: 21788726 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Plant Preparations
• Acrolein
• Methylcellulose
• cinnamaldehyde

Topics

• Acrolein (administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives, therapeutic use)
• Administration, Oral
• Animals
• Candidiasis, Oral (drug therapy)
• Cassia
• Disease Models, Animal
• Drug Synergism
• Female
• Methylcellulose (administration & dosage)
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred ICR
• Plant Preparations (administration & dosage)