2,4,6-Trihydroxy-3-geranyl acetophenone suppresses vascular leakage and leukocyte infiltration in lipopolysaccharide-induced endotoxemic mice

CONTEXT: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exacerbates systemic inflammatory responses and causes excessive fluid leakage. 2,4,6-Trihydroxy-3-geranyl acetophenone (tHGA) has been revealed to protect against LPS-induced vascular inflammation and endothelial hyperpermeability in vitro.

OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the in vivo protective effects of tHGA against LPS-induced systemic inflammation and vascular permeability in endotoxemic mice.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: BALB/c mice were intraperitoneally pre-treated with tHGA for 1 h, followed by 6 h of LPS induction. Evans blue permeability assay and leukocyte transmigration assay were performed in mice (n = 6) pre-treated with 2, 20 and 100 mg/kg tHGA. The effects of tHGA (20, 40 and 80 mg/kg) on LPS-induced serum TNF-α secretion, lung dysfunction and lethality were assessed using ELISA (n = 6), histopathological analysis (n = 6) and survivability assay (n = 10), respectively. Saline and dexamethasone were used as the negative control and drug control, respectively.

RESULTS: tHGA significantly inhibited vascular permeability at 2, 20 and 100 mg/kg with percentage of inhibition of 48%, 85% and 86%, respectively, in comparison to the LPS control group (IC50=3.964 mg/kg). Leukocyte infiltration was suppressed at 20 and 100 mg/kg doses with percentage of inhibition of 73% and 81%, respectively (IC50=17.56 mg/kg). However, all tHGA doses (20, 40 and 80 mg/kg) failed to prevent endotoxemic mice from lethality because tHGA could not suppress TNF-α overproduction and organ dysfunction.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: tHGA may be developed as a potential therapeutic agent for diseases related to uncontrolled vascular leakage by combining with other anti-inflammatory agents.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical biology - 59(2021), 1 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 732-740

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chan, Yee Han [VerfasserIn]
Musa, Nazmi Firdaus [VerfasserIn]
Chong, Yi Joong [VerfasserIn]
Saat, Siti Arfah [VerfasserIn]
Hafiz, Faizul [VerfasserIn]
Shaari, Khozirah [VerfasserIn]
Israf, Daud Ahmad [VerfasserIn]
Tham, Chau Ling [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2,4,6-trihydroxy-3-geranylacetophenone
Acetophenones
DHD7FFG6YS
Endothelial hyperpermeability
Journal Article
LPS
Lipopolysaccharides
Phloroglucinol
THGA
Vascular inflammation

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Date Completed 10.12.2021

Date Revised 24.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13880209.2021.1933083

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327033444