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BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 72, Issue 8, Pages 1010-1021Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2006.07.016
Keywords
flavonoids; inflammation; macrophages; structure-activity analysis; iNOS; TNF
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Flavonoids possess several biological/pharmacological activities including anticancer, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and antioxidant. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of flavonoids on macrophage physiology. For this purpose we selected some flavonoids belonging to the most common and abundant groups (flavonols-quercetin and kaempferol; flavones-diosmetin, apigenin, chrysin and luteolin; isoflavones-genistein and daidzein and flavanones-hesperetin). We decided to use primary bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) as cellular model, since they represent a homogenous, non-transformed population of macrophages that can be stimulated in vitro to proliferate by macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) or activated by LPS. In this regard, we demonstrated that most of the flavonoids assayed reduce macrophage M-CSF-induced proliferation without affecting cellular viability. Moreover, some flavonoids also inhibit TNF alpha production as well as NOS expression and NO production in LPS-activated macrophages, an effect that has been associated with the inhibition of the NF-kappa B pathway. We also found that luteolin and quercetin are able to stimulate the expression of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 at low concentrations (< 50 mu M). Analysis of the structure-activity relationship showed that four hydroxylations at positions 5, 7, 3' and 4', together with the double bond at C-2-C-3 and the position of the B ring at 2, seem to be necessary for the highest anti-inflammatory effect. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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