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Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

OBJECTIVE: The mechanism of action of asiatic acid (AA) on alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) was investigated using network pharmacology and experiments. METHODS: Through data retrieval, network construction, and enrichment analysis, the potential mechanism of AA in the treatment of alcoholic steatohe...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Tao, Xu, Jinhong, Lu, Yang, Chen, Xiaojin, Li, Yongxia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9576410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1708030
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author Jiang, Tao
Xu, Jinhong
Lu, Yang
Chen, Xiaojin
Li, Yongxia
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Xu, Jinhong
Lu, Yang
Chen, Xiaojin
Li, Yongxia
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description OBJECTIVE: The mechanism of action of asiatic acid (AA) on alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) was investigated using network pharmacology and experiments. METHODS: Through data retrieval, network construction, and enrichment analysis, the potential mechanism of AA in the treatment of alcoholic steatohepatitis was explored. Animal and cell models were established in this study. Animal Model. The mouse model was divided into six groups: normal group; model group; low, medium, and high AA group; and silibinin-positive group. Cell Model. An in vitro inflammatory model of RAW264.7 cells was established by alcohol stimulation. RESULTS: Compared with the model group, the low, medium, and high AA group showed decreased serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), triglyceride (TG), and total cholesterol (T-CHO). The inflammatory factor tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β), and interleukin 6 (IL-6) in a dose-dependent manner were decreased. In addition, hematoxylin-eosin staining showed that liver tissue damage and inflammatory cell infiltration in mice were significantly reduced with increasing doses. Further, oil red staining showed that lipid accumulation in hepatocytes in the low, medium, and high AA group was significantly reduced, with increasing dose. In addition, in the cellular model, real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (Real-Time RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results showed that AA could alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation, while western blot and immunofluorescence results showed that AA might alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation by inhibiting the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway. CONCLUSION: This study provides multiple lines of evidence that asiatic acid may alleviate alcoholic hepatitis in mice by modulating the NF-κB pathway.
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spelling pubmed-95764102022-10-18 Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Jiang, Tao Xu, Jinhong Lu, Yang Chen, Xiaojin Li, Yongxia Mediators Inflamm Research Article OBJECTIVE: The mechanism of action of asiatic acid (AA) on alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) was investigated using network pharmacology and experiments. METHODS: Through data retrieval, network construction, and enrichment analysis, the potential mechanism of AA in the treatment of alcoholic steatohepatitis was explored. Animal and cell models were established in this study. Animal Model. The mouse model was divided into six groups: normal group; model group; low, medium, and high AA group; and silibinin-positive group. Cell Model. An in vitro inflammatory model of RAW264.7 cells was established by alcohol stimulation. RESULTS: Compared with the model group, the low, medium, and high AA group showed decreased serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), triglyceride (TG), and total cholesterol (T-CHO). The inflammatory factor tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β), and interleukin 6 (IL-6) in a dose-dependent manner were decreased. In addition, hematoxylin-eosin staining showed that liver tissue damage and inflammatory cell infiltration in mice were significantly reduced with increasing doses. Further, oil red staining showed that lipid accumulation in hepatocytes in the low, medium, and high AA group was significantly reduced, with increasing dose. In addition, in the cellular model, real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (Real-Time RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results showed that AA could alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation, while western blot and immunofluorescence results showed that AA might alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation by inhibiting the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway. CONCLUSION: This study provides multiple lines of evidence that asiatic acid may alleviate alcoholic hepatitis in mice by modulating the NF-κB pathway. Hindawi 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9576410/ /pubmed/36262544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1708030 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tao Jiang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jiang, Tao
Xu, Jinhong
Lu, Yang
Chen, Xiaojin
Li, Yongxia
Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title_full Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title_fullStr Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title_full_unstemmed Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title_short Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
title_sort network pharmacology analysis and experimental validation to explore the anti-inflammatory mechanism of asiatic acid on alcoholic steatohepatitis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9576410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36262544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1708030
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