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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 432-439Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2014.12.041
Keywords
Isofraxidin; Acute lung injury; Inflammatory cytokines; Cyclooxygenase-2; Prostaglandin E-2
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- Natural Science Foundation of International Cooperation Projects (Shaanxi Province, PR China) [2013KW26-02]
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Acute lung injury (ALI) is a life-threatening disease characterized by serious lung inflammation and increased capillary permeability, which presents a high mortality worldwide. Isofraxidin (IF), a Coumarin compound isolated from the natural medicinal plants such as Sarcandra glabra and Acanthopanax senticosus, has been reported to have definite anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the effects of IF against lipopolysaccharide-induced ALI have not been clarified. The aim of the present study is to explore the protective effects and potential mechanism of IF against LPS-induced ALI in mice. In this study, We found that pretreatment with IF significantly lowered LPS-induced mortality and lung wet-to-dry weight (W/D) ratio and reduced the levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)) in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). We also found that total cells, neutrophils and macrophages in BALF, MPO activity in lung tissues were markedly decreased. Besides, IF obviously inhibited lung histopathological changes and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) protein expression. These results suggest that IF has a protective effect against LPS-induced ALI, and the protective effect of IF seems to result from the inhibition of COX-2 protein expression in the lung, which regulates the production of PGE2. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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