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p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes

The pursuit of cholesterol lowering natural products with less side effects is needed for controlling dyslipidemia and reducing the increasing toll of cardiovascular diseases that are associated with morbidity and mortality worldwide. The present study aimed at the examining effects of p-methoxycinn...

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Autores principales: Paim, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro, Rodrigues, Paula Salmito Alves, da Silva, José Ytalo Gomes, de Paula Junior, Valdir Ferreira, da Silva, Bruno Bezerra, Freitas, Claísa Andréa Silva De, Oriá, Reinaldo Barreto, Florean, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina, Rondina, Davide, Guedes, Maria Izabel Florindo
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31968556
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010262
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author Paim, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro
Rodrigues, Paula Salmito Alves
da Silva, José Ytalo Gomes
de Paula Junior, Valdir Ferreira
da Silva, Bruno Bezerra
Freitas, Claísa Andréa Silva De
Oriá, Reinaldo Barreto
Florean, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina
Rondina, Davide
Guedes, Maria Izabel Florindo
author_facet Paim, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro
Rodrigues, Paula Salmito Alves
da Silva, José Ytalo Gomes
de Paula Junior, Valdir Ferreira
da Silva, Bruno Bezerra
Freitas, Claísa Andréa Silva De
Oriá, Reinaldo Barreto
Florean, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina
Rondina, Davide
Guedes, Maria Izabel Florindo
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description The pursuit of cholesterol lowering natural products with less side effects is needed for controlling dyslipidemia and reducing the increasing toll of cardiovascular diseases that are associated with morbidity and mortality worldwide. The present study aimed at the examining effects of p-methoxycinnamic acid diesters (PCO-C) from carnauba (Copernicia prunifera)-derived wax on cytotoxic, genotoxic responses in vitro and on dyslipidemia and liver oxidative stress in vivo, utilizing high-fat diet (HFD) chronically fed Swiss mice. In addition, we evaluated the effect of PCO-C on the expression of key cholesterol metabolism-related genes, as well as the structural interactions between PCO-C and lecithin-cholesterol acyl transferase (LCAT) in silico. Oral treatment with PCO-C was able to reduce total serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels following HFD. In addition, PCO-C reduced excessive weight gain and lipid peroxidation, and increased the gene expression of LCAT following HFD. Furthermore, the high affinity of the studied compound (ΔG: −8.78 Kcal/mol) towards the active sites of mutant LCAT owing to hydrophobic and van der Waals interactions was confirmed using bioinformatics. PCO-C showed no evidence of renal and hepatic toxicity, unlike simvastatin, that elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels, a marker of liver dysfunction. Finally, PCO-C showed no cytotoxicity or genotoxicity towards human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro. Our results suggest that PCO-C exerts hypocholesterolemic effects. The safety of PCO-C in the toxicological tests performed and the reports of its beneficial biological effects render this a promising compound for the development of new cholesterol-lowering therapeutics to control dyslipidemia. More work is needed for further elucidating PCO-C role on lipid metabolism to support future clinical studies.
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spelling pubmed-70193182020-03-09 p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Paim, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro Rodrigues, Paula Salmito Alves da Silva, José Ytalo Gomes de Paula Junior, Valdir Ferreira da Silva, Bruno Bezerra Freitas, Claísa Andréa Silva De Oriá, Reinaldo Barreto Florean, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina Rondina, Davide Guedes, Maria Izabel Florindo Nutrients Article The pursuit of cholesterol lowering natural products with less side effects is needed for controlling dyslipidemia and reducing the increasing toll of cardiovascular diseases that are associated with morbidity and mortality worldwide. The present study aimed at the examining effects of p-methoxycinnamic acid diesters (PCO-C) from carnauba (Copernicia prunifera)-derived wax on cytotoxic, genotoxic responses in vitro and on dyslipidemia and liver oxidative stress in vivo, utilizing high-fat diet (HFD) chronically fed Swiss mice. In addition, we evaluated the effect of PCO-C on the expression of key cholesterol metabolism-related genes, as well as the structural interactions between PCO-C and lecithin-cholesterol acyl transferase (LCAT) in silico. Oral treatment with PCO-C was able to reduce total serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels following HFD. In addition, PCO-C reduced excessive weight gain and lipid peroxidation, and increased the gene expression of LCAT following HFD. Furthermore, the high affinity of the studied compound (ΔG: −8.78 Kcal/mol) towards the active sites of mutant LCAT owing to hydrophobic and van der Waals interactions was confirmed using bioinformatics. PCO-C showed no evidence of renal and hepatic toxicity, unlike simvastatin, that elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels, a marker of liver dysfunction. Finally, PCO-C showed no cytotoxicity or genotoxicity towards human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro. Our results suggest that PCO-C exerts hypocholesterolemic effects. The safety of PCO-C in the toxicological tests performed and the reports of its beneficial biological effects render this a promising compound for the development of new cholesterol-lowering therapeutics to control dyslipidemia. More work is needed for further elucidating PCO-C role on lipid metabolism to support future clinical studies. MDPI 2020-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7019318/ /pubmed/31968556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010262 Text en © 2020 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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Paim, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro
Rodrigues, Paula Salmito Alves
da Silva, José Ytalo Gomes
de Paula Junior, Valdir Ferreira
da Silva, Bruno Bezerra
Freitas, Claísa Andréa Silva De
Oriá, Reinaldo Barreto
Florean, Eridan Orlando Pereira Tramontina
Rondina, Davide
Guedes, Maria Izabel Florindo
p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title_full p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title_fullStr p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title_full_unstemmed p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title_short p-Methoxycinnamic Acid Diesters Lower Dyslipidemia, Liver Oxidative Stress and Toxicity in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice and Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes
title_sort p-methoxycinnamic acid diesters lower dyslipidemia, liver oxidative stress and toxicity in high-fat diet fed mice and human peripheral blood lymphocytes
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31968556
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010262
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