Ameliorative effects of arctiin from Arctium lappa
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- 作者：Jian-Guo Wu ; Jin-Zhong Wu ; Lian-Na Sun ; Ting Han ; Jian Du ; Qi Ye ; Hong Zhang ; Yu-Guang Zhang
- 关键词：Arctiin ; Arctium lappa ; Glomerulonephritis ; Nuclear factor-κ ; B ; Pro-inflammatory cytokine ; Superoxide dismutase
- 刊名：Phytomedicine
- 出版年：2009
- 出版时间：November 2009
- 年：2009
- 卷：16
- 期：11
- 页码：1033-1041
- 全文大小：321 K
文摘
Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) remains the most common cause of adult-onset nephrotic syndrome in the world and up to 40 % of untreated patients will progress to end-stage renal disease. Although the treatment of MGN with immunosuppressants or steroid hormones can attenuate the deterioration of renal function, numerous treatment-related complications have also been established. In this study, the ameliorative effects of arctiin, a natural compound isolated from the fruits of Arctium lappa, on rat glomerulonephritis induced by cationic bovine serum albumin (cBSA) were determined. After oral administration of arctiin (30, 60, 120 mg/kg d) for three weeks, the levels of serum creatinine (Scr) and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and 24-h urine protein content markedly decreased, while endogenous creatinine clearance rate (ECcr) significantly increased. The parameters of renal lesion, hypercellularity, infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN), fibrinoid necrosis, focal and segmental proliferation and interstitial infiltration, were reversed. In addition, we observed that arctiin evidently reduced the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) and pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), suppressed nuclear factor-κB p65 (NF-κB) DNA binding activity, and enhanced superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity. These findings suggest that the ameliorative effects of arctiin on glomerulonephritis is carried out mainly by suppression of NF-κB activation and nuclear translocation and the decreases in the levels of these pro-inflammatory cytokines, while SOD is involved in the inhibitory pathway of NF-κB activation. Arctiin has favorable potency for the development of an inhibitory agent of NF-κB and further application to clinical treatment of glomerulonephritis, though clinical studies are required.