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  • Title: Evidence that mammalian lignans show endogenous digitalis-like activities.
    Author: Fagoo M, Braquet P, Robin JP, Esanu A, Godfraind T.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1986 Feb 13; 134(3):1064-70. PubMed ID: 3004480.
    Abstract:
    Enterolactone, a lignan that has been identified in biological samples from man and several mammals, shares with ascorbic acid and cardiac glycosides a gamma-butyrolactone. It displaces 3H-ouabain from its binding sites on cardiac digitalis receptor and inhibits, dose dependently, the Na+, K+-ATPase activity of human and guinea-pig heart. The time dependence of this inhibition resembles that of dihydroouabain, a cardiac glycoside in which the lactone ring does not contain conjugated double bonds. The active concentrations of enterolactone as inhibitor of Na+,K+-ATPase are in the 10(-4) M range and, at those concentrations, the cross-reactivity with antidigoxin antibodies is low. Lignans may contribute to the putative digitalis-like activity found in tissues, blood and urine of several mammals including man.
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