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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 446, Issue 4, Pages 1225-1230Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.03.094
Keywords
Hydroxytyrosol; Macrophage; Inflammation; Toll-like receptor 4; Lipopolysaccharide
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Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI [21380168]
- Bilateral Joint Projects, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21380168, 24659587, 25293335] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Macrophages play important roles in the host innate immune response and are involved in the onset of diseases caused by inflammation. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated inflammatory responses of macrophages may be associated with diseases such as diabetes and diseases of the cardiovascular system. Hydroxytyrosol (HT) exerts strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects and may be applied in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. In the present study conducted in vitro, we investigated the effects of the TLR4-dependent anti-inflammatory effect of HT on peritoneal macrophage of BALB/c mice. We show here that the elevated levels of iNOS gene expression and nitric oxide production induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (0.25 mu g/ml) were suppressed by HT (12.5 mu g/ml). LPS-dependent NF-kappa B gene expression and phosphorylation of NF-kappa B were not affected by HT under these conditions. In contrast, the expression of TNF-alpha was significantly increased in the presence of LPS and HT. These results suggest that HT suppressed nitric oxide production by decreasing iNOS gene expression through a mechanism independent of the NF-kappa B signaling pathway. These novel findings suggest that the modulation by HT of the expression of genes involved in inflammation may involve multiple mechanisms. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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