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TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO
卷 65, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104817
关键词
Tetramethylpyrazine; Iron overload; Vascular endothelium; Mitochondrial dysfunction; ROS/ADMA/DDAHII/eNOS/NO pathway
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资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21467017, 81660583, 81803534]
- Jiangxi applied research and cultivation program [20181BBG78059]
Iron overload causes vascular endothelium damage. It has been thought to relate excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP), an active ingredient of Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort, protects various cells by inhibiting oxidative stress and cascade reaction of apoptosis. However, whether TMP can increase DDAHII activity and expression against endothelial cell damage induced by iron overload, and the protective mechanism has not been elucidated. In this study, 50 mu M iron dextran and 25 mu M TMP were used to co-treat HUVECs for 48 h. TMP could increase cell viability and decrease LDH activity, enhance DDAHII expression and activity, p-eNOS/eNOS ratio, NO content, and reduce ADMA level. TMP also showed a strong antioxidant activity with inhibited ROS generation and oxidative stress. Moreover, TMP attenuated mitochondrial membrane potential loss, inhibited mitochondrial permeability transition pore openness, and decreased apoptosis induced by iron overload. While mentioned above, the protective effects of TMP were abolished with the addition of pAD/DDAHII-shRNA. The effects of TMP against iron overload were similar to the positive control groups, L-arginine, a competitive substrate of ADMA, or edaravone, free radical scavenger. These results signify that TMP alleviated iron overload damage in vascular endothelium via ROS/ADMA/ DDAHII/eNOS/NO pathway.
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