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Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses

Litsea cubeba L., also named as Makauy, is a traditional herb and has been used as cooking condiment or tea brewing to treat diseases for aborigines. The present study was undertaken to explore the chemical compositions of the fruit essential oil of L. cubeba (LCEO) and the immunomodulatory effect o...

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Autores principales: Chen, Hsin-Chun, Chang, Wen-Te, Hseu, You-Cheng, Chen, Hsing-Yu, Chuang, Cheng Hsuan, Lin, Chi-Chen, Lee, Meng-Shiou, Lin, Ming-Kuem
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27529236
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081319
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author Chen, Hsin-Chun
Chang, Wen-Te
Hseu, You-Cheng
Chen, Hsing-Yu
Chuang, Cheng Hsuan
Lin, Chi-Chen
Lee, Meng-Shiou
Lin, Ming-Kuem
author_facet Chen, Hsin-Chun
Chang, Wen-Te
Hseu, You-Cheng
Chen, Hsing-Yu
Chuang, Cheng Hsuan
Lin, Chi-Chen
Lee, Meng-Shiou
Lin, Ming-Kuem
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description Litsea cubeba L., also named as Makauy, is a traditional herb and has been used as cooking condiment or tea brewing to treat diseases for aborigines. The present study was undertaken to explore the chemical compositions of the fruit essential oil of L. cubeba (LCEO) and the immunomodulatory effect of LCEO on dendritic cells and mice. The LCEO was analyzed using gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) with direct injection (DI/GC) or headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME/GC). In total, 56 components were identified, of which 48 were detected by DI/GC and 49 were detected by HS-SPME/GC. The principal compounds were citral (neral and geranial). An immunosuppressive activity of LCEO was investigated with bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) which have a critical role to trigger the adaptive immunity. Additionally, the inhibitory effect of LCEO on immune response was elucidated by performing the contact hypersensitivity (CHS) responses in mice. Our results clearly showed that LCEO decreases the production of TNF-α and cytokine IL-12 in a dose-dependent manner in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated DCs. CHS response and the infiltrative T cells were inhibited in the tested ears of the mice co-treated with LCEO. We demonstrate, for the first time, that the LCEO mainly containing citral exhibits an immunosuppressive effect on DCs and mice, indicating that LCEO can potentially be applied in the treatment of CHS, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases.
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spelling pubmed-50007162016-09-01 Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses Chen, Hsin-Chun Chang, Wen-Te Hseu, You-Cheng Chen, Hsing-Yu Chuang, Cheng Hsuan Lin, Chi-Chen Lee, Meng-Shiou Lin, Ming-Kuem Int J Mol Sci Article Litsea cubeba L., also named as Makauy, is a traditional herb and has been used as cooking condiment or tea brewing to treat diseases for aborigines. The present study was undertaken to explore the chemical compositions of the fruit essential oil of L. cubeba (LCEO) and the immunomodulatory effect of LCEO on dendritic cells and mice. The LCEO was analyzed using gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) with direct injection (DI/GC) or headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME/GC). In total, 56 components were identified, of which 48 were detected by DI/GC and 49 were detected by HS-SPME/GC. The principal compounds were citral (neral and geranial). An immunosuppressive activity of LCEO was investigated with bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) which have a critical role to trigger the adaptive immunity. Additionally, the inhibitory effect of LCEO on immune response was elucidated by performing the contact hypersensitivity (CHS) responses in mice. Our results clearly showed that LCEO decreases the production of TNF-α and cytokine IL-12 in a dose-dependent manner in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated DCs. CHS response and the infiltrative T cells were inhibited in the tested ears of the mice co-treated with LCEO. We demonstrate, for the first time, that the LCEO mainly containing citral exhibits an immunosuppressive effect on DCs and mice, indicating that LCEO can potentially be applied in the treatment of CHS, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases. MDPI 2016-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5000716/ /pubmed/27529236 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081319 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Chen, Hsin-Chun
Chang, Wen-Te
Hseu, You-Cheng
Chen, Hsing-Yu
Chuang, Cheng Hsuan
Lin, Chi-Chen
Lee, Meng-Shiou
Lin, Ming-Kuem
Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title_full Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title_fullStr Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title_full_unstemmed Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title_short Immunosuppressive Effect of Litsea cubeba L. Essential Oil on Dendritic Cell and Contact Hypersensitivity Responses
title_sort immunosuppressive effect of litsea cubeba l. essential oil on dendritic cell and contact hypersensitivity responses
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27529236
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081319
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