TANG Fengman,PANG Xiaojun,XIE Yan,et al.Improvement effects and mechanism of total flavonoids of Bidens pilosa on lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2023,34(14):1719-1723.
TANG Fengman,PANG Xiaojun,XIE Yan,et al.Improvement effects and mechanism of total flavonoids of Bidens pilosa on lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice[J].ZHONGGUO YAOFANG,2023,34(14):1719-1723. DOI: 10.6039/j.issn.1001-0408.2023.14.11.
Improvement effects and mechanism of total flavonoids of Bidens pilosa on lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice
To investigate the effect and mechanism of total flavonoids of
Bidens pilosa
L. (TFB) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced neuroinflammation in mice.
METHODS
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Fifty C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into normal control group, LPS group and TFB low-dose, medium-dose and high-dose groups, with 10 mice in each group. TFB low-dose, medium-dose and high-dose groups were given TFB solution intragastrically at 60, 120 and 240 mg/kg, and the normal control group and LPS group were given corresponding volume of normal saline, once a day, for consecutive 21 d. From the 15th day of administration, except for the normal control group, other groups were given LPS (400 μg/kg) intraperitoneally for 7 consecutive days to establish neuroinflammatory model. Brain tissues were taken under anesthesia 4 h after the final administration. The morphological changes of neuronal cells in mice were observed; the contents of nitric oxide (NO), tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-6 and IL-10 were measured, and the expressions of inflammatory pathway-related proteins [inducible NO synthase (iNOS), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), myeloid differentiation factor 88 (Myd88) and protein kinase C (PKC)] were measured in the brain tissues of mice.
RESULTS
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Compared with the normal control group, the neuronal arrangement in the hippocampal region of the brain tissue of mice in the LPS group was sparsely disorganized, with a large number of neuronal fixations and shrunken nuclei; the contents of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and NO in the brain tissue were significantly increased, the contents of IL-10 were significantly decreased, and the relative expressions of iNOS, COX-2, Myd88 and PKC proteins were significantly increased (
P
<0.05). Compared with the LPS group, the neuronal pathological changes in the brain tissue of mice in the TFB low-dose, medium-dose and high-dose groups were significantly improved, and the changes of the above indices in the brain tissue were significantly reversed (
P
<0.05).
CONCLUSIONS
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TFB has an inhibitory effect on neuroinflammation, and its mechanism of action may be related to down-regulation of the expressions of inflammatory pathway-related proteins iNOS, COX-2, Myd88 and PKC, and reduction of inflammatory factors release.
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