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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 330-335Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.03.023
Keywords
Lycium ruthenicum; Polysaccharide; Toll-like receptor 4; NF-B-kappa
Funding
- doctoral research fund of Northwest AF University [2013BSJJ079]
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Polysaccharide has been reported to possess diverse biological activities, however, the inflammatory activity of polysaccharide isolated from Lycium ruthenicum remains unknown so far. In the present study, we investigated the effects of L ruthenicum polysaccharide (LRGP3) on inflammatory reaction induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mouse macrophage RAW264.7 cells and some potential underlying mechanisms. Our results showed that LRGP3 treatment significantly inhibited the LPS-induced NO production and the mRNA expression of iNOS, as well as the level of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). Furthermore, LRGP3 treatment prevented the I kappa Ba degradation and reduced phospho-NF-B-kappa p65 protein expression in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Meanwhile, the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-alpha, IL-beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha were suppressed by LRGP3 in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Taken together, our results suggested that LRGP3 attenuated LPS-induced inflammation via inhibiting TLR4/NF-B-kappa signaling pathway. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..
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