期刊
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 30, 期 -, 页码 157-162出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2015.11.035
关键词
Icariin; Cerebral ischemia; Inflammation; Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor; Nuclear factor kappa B
资金
- Joint Fund of the Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province [LKZ201127]
- Science and Technology Department of Guizhou Province of outstanding youth science and technology talent capital [201326]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University, China [IRT1197]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-11-0927]
Icariin (ICA), an active flavonoid extracted from Chinese medicinal herb Epimedii, has been reported to exhibit many pharmacological effects including alleviating brain injury. However, little is known about the protection of ICA on ischemic stroke. Hence, this study was designed to investigate the neuroprotective effect of ICA and explore its underlying mechanisms on ischemic stroke induced by cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats. The animals were pretreated with ICA at doses of 10, 30 mg/kg twice per day for 3 consecutive days followed by cerebral I/R injury induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) for 2 h and reperfusion for 24 h. Neurological function and infarct volume were observed at 24 h after reperfusion, the protein expression levels of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), transforming growth factor-beta(1) (TGF-beta(1)), PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma, inhibitory kappa B-alpha (I kappa B-alpha) degradation and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) p65 phosphorylation were detected by Western blot, respectively. It was found that pretreatment with ICA could decrease neurological deficit score, diminish the infarct volume, and reduce the protein levels of IL-1 beta and TGF-beta(1). Moreover, ICA suppressed I kappa B-alpha degradation and NF-kappa B activation induced by I/R. Furthermore, the present study also showed that ICA up-regulated PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma protein levels. These findings suggest that ICA has neuroprotective effect on ischemic stroke in rats through inhibition of inflammatory responses mediated by NF-kappa B and PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据