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ARCHIVES OF PHARMACAL RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 895-902Publisher
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/BF02977011
Keywords
macrophage activation; inflammation; cytokines; Korean Propolis
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Monocytes and macrophages play a major role in defense mechanism of the host response to tumor, in part through the secretion of several potent products and macrophage cytokines. Monocytes and tissue macrophages produce at least two groups of protein mediators of inflammation, interleukin 1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Recent studies emphasizes that TNF and IL-1 modulate the inflammatory function of endothelial cells, leukocytes, and fibroblasts. In this study, our work is directed toward studying the in vitro effects of Korean propolis on the ability to induce cellular and secretory responses in murine macrophage cell line, RAW 264.7. It was found that Water Extract of Korean Propolis (WEP) could activate macrophages by producing cytokines. The production of the macrophage cytokines, IL-1 and TNF-alpha by RAW 264.7 treated with WEP was examined from 2.5 mug/ml up to 25 mug/ml with dose dependent manner. Nitric oxide (NO) production was also increased when cells were exposed to combination of LPS and WEP from 2.5 mug/ml up to 25 mug/ml. At high dose of WEP (50 to 100 mug/ml) used to prescribe for anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine showed inhibition of NO production in LPS-stimulated macrophage. Besides cytokine production, NO release, surface molecule expression and cell morphologic antigen expression were increased in response to the stimulation by WEP. These results suggested WEP may function through macrophage activation.
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