Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 136, Issue 3-4, Pages 1288-1295Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.09.039
Keywords
AHCC; Enterocyte; Macrophage immunomodulatory; NF kappa B; TLR4
Funding
- Amino Up Chemical
- Ministry of Science and Innovation [SAF2008-01432, AGL2008-04332, SAF2011-22922, SAF2011-22812]
- Junta de Andalucia [CTS-6736, CTS164]
- Fundacion Ramon Areces
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
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Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) is an immunostimulatory nutritional supplement. AHCC effects and mechanism of action on intestinal epithelial cells or monocytes are poorly described. AHCC was added to the culture medium of intestinal epithelial cells (IEC18 and HT29 cells) and monocytes (THP-1 cells) and assessed the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines by ELISA. Inhibitors of NF kappa B and MAPKs were used to study signal transduction pathways while TLR4 and MyD88 were silenced in IEC18 cells using shRNA. It was found that AHCC induced GRO alpha and MCP1 secretion in IEC18 and IL-8 in HT29 cells. These effects depended on NF kappa B activation, and partly on MAPKs activation and on the presence of MyD88 and TLR4. In THP-1 cells AHCC evoked IL-8, IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha secretion. The induction of IL-8 depended on JNK and NF kappa B activation. Therefore, AHCC exerts immunostimulatory effects on intestinal epithelial cells and monocytes involving TLR4/MyD88 and NF kappa B/MAPK signal transduction pathways. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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