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Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice
BACKGROUND: Tamarix chinensis Lour (TCL) is a shrub that usually grows in arid or semiarid desert areas and saline-alkali fields. It is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine with hepatoprotective, antioxidant, antibacterial, and antitumor activities. AIM: To investigate the possible protective effec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7109270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32256017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v26.i12.1286 |
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author | Wang, Zhi-Dan Zhang, Yu Dai, Yi-Dan Ren, Ke Han, Chen Wang, Heng-Xiao Yi, Shuang-Qin |
author_facet | Wang, Zhi-Dan Zhang, Yu Dai, Yi-Dan Ren, Ke Han, Chen Wang, Heng-Xiao Yi, Shuang-Qin |
author_sort | Wang, Zhi-Dan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Tamarix chinensis Lour (TCL) is a shrub that usually grows in arid or semiarid desert areas and saline-alkali fields. It is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine with hepatoprotective, antioxidant, antibacterial, and antitumor activities. AIM: To investigate the possible protective effects of TCL against liver injury induced by chronic ethanol intake. METHODS: C57BL/6J male mice were fed a Lieber-DeCarli lipid diet containing alcohol and received (by gavage) a water-alcohol extract (80%) of TCL (100 and 200 mg/kg BW) or distilled water for 4 wk. After euthanasia, liver tissues were observed histologically with hematoxylin and eosin staining and Oil red O staining, and the levels of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate transaminase, hepatic lipids, reactive oxygen species, malondialdehyde, and superoxide dismutase were measured. In addition, expression of the NOD-like receptor family, pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome and downstream proinflammatory cytokines were determined. RESULTS: Compared with the ethanol group, mice in the TCL-treated group (200 mg/kg) had significantly lower serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (mean, 34.1 IU/L vs 45.3 IU/L, P < 0.01) and aspartate transaminase (mean, 89.6 IU/L vs 115.7 IU/L, P < 0.01), as well as marked reduction of hepatic tissue reactive oxygen species (decreased by 27.5%, P < 0.01) and malondialdehyde (decreased by 76.6%, P < 0.01) levels, with a significant increase of superoxide dismutase (Increased by 73.2%, P < 0.01). Expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome and its downstream cytokines [interleukin (IL)-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α, and IL-6], and recruitment of natural killer T cells to the liver, were reduced in the TCL-treated incubation with a Lieber-DeCaril ethanol lipid diet group. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that a TCL extract (200 mg/kg) protects against chronic ethanol-induced liver injury, probably by inhibiting the NLRP3-caspase-1-IL-1β signaling pathway and suppressing oxidative stress. |
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spelling | pubmed-71092702020-04-03 Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice Wang, Zhi-Dan Zhang, Yu Dai, Yi-Dan Ren, Ke Han, Chen Wang, Heng-Xiao Yi, Shuang-Qin World J Gastroenterol Basic Study BACKGROUND: Tamarix chinensis Lour (TCL) is a shrub that usually grows in arid or semiarid desert areas and saline-alkali fields. It is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine with hepatoprotective, antioxidant, antibacterial, and antitumor activities. AIM: To investigate the possible protective effects of TCL against liver injury induced by chronic ethanol intake. METHODS: C57BL/6J male mice were fed a Lieber-DeCarli lipid diet containing alcohol and received (by gavage) a water-alcohol extract (80%) of TCL (100 and 200 mg/kg BW) or distilled water for 4 wk. After euthanasia, liver tissues were observed histologically with hematoxylin and eosin staining and Oil red O staining, and the levels of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate transaminase, hepatic lipids, reactive oxygen species, malondialdehyde, and superoxide dismutase were measured. In addition, expression of the NOD-like receptor family, pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome and downstream proinflammatory cytokines were determined. RESULTS: Compared with the ethanol group, mice in the TCL-treated group (200 mg/kg) had significantly lower serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (mean, 34.1 IU/L vs 45.3 IU/L, P < 0.01) and aspartate transaminase (mean, 89.6 IU/L vs 115.7 IU/L, P < 0.01), as well as marked reduction of hepatic tissue reactive oxygen species (decreased by 27.5%, P < 0.01) and malondialdehyde (decreased by 76.6%, P < 0.01) levels, with a significant increase of superoxide dismutase (Increased by 73.2%, P < 0.01). Expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome and its downstream cytokines [interleukin (IL)-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α, and IL-6], and recruitment of natural killer T cells to the liver, were reduced in the TCL-treated incubation with a Lieber-DeCaril ethanol lipid diet group. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that a TCL extract (200 mg/kg) protects against chronic ethanol-induced liver injury, probably by inhibiting the NLRP3-caspase-1-IL-1β signaling pathway and suppressing oxidative stress. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020-03-28 2020-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7109270/ /pubmed/32256017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v26.i12.1286 Text en ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Basic Study Wang, Zhi-Dan Zhang, Yu Dai, Yi-Dan Ren, Ke Han, Chen Wang, Heng-Xiao Yi, Shuang-Qin Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title | Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title_full | Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title_fullStr | Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title_short | Tamarix chinensis Lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
title_sort | tamarix chinensis lour inhibits chronic ethanol-induced liver injury in mice |
topic | Basic Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7109270/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32256017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v26.i12.1286 |
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