Inhibitory Effect of Hyeonggaeyeongyo-tang Water Extract on production of Nitric Oxide, IL-6 and Expression of iNOS, COX-2 in LPS - Activated Raw 264.7 Cells

형개영교탕(荊芥蓮翹湯)이 lipopolysaccharide로 유도된 nitric oxide의 생성 및 iNOS와 COX-2의 발현, cytokine에 미치는 영향

  • Kim, Min-Ji (College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Rok (College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Chan (College of Oriental Medicine, Development Team for The New Drug of Oriental Medicine (BK21 program). Daegu Haany University)
  • 김민지 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학) ;
  • 이종록 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학) ;
  • 김상찬 (대구대학교 한의과대학, 한방신약개발연구팀(BK21))
  • Published : 2007.04.25

Abstract

Hyeonggaeyeongyo-tang (HYT; Jingjielianqiao-tang), is known to be effective in lowering wind-heat blended as a pathogen of kidney. HYT has been traditionally used for the treatment of a syndrome in kidney meridian, due to invasion of pathogenic wind and heat. Nowadays, this prescription is used to treat diseases marked by excessive wind and heat in the kidney meridian, such as acute otitis media, empyema, hypertrophic rhinitis, nasal bleeding, nasal obstruction, acne and tonsillitis. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of HYT on the regulatory mechanism of cytokines and nitric oxide (NO) for the immunological activities in Raw 264.7 cells. After the treatment of HYT water extract, cell viability was measured by MTT assay, NO production was monitored by measuring the nitrite content in culture medium. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2_ and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) were determined by immunoblot analysis, and levels of cytokine were analyzed by sandwich immunoassays. The production of No was significantly inhibited by pre-treatment (1h) with HYT(0.1-0.3 mg/ml) on LPS-activated Raw264.7 cells. The expression of iNOS and COX-2 protein were up-regulated by LPS, but the increased levels of iNOS and COX-2 were inhibited by pre-treatment of HYT (0.3-1.0 mg/ml), respectively. And the level of interleukin-6 (IL-6), cytokine released from macrophage, was reduced by HYT pre-treatment (0.3-1.0 mg/ml). Thus, the present data suggest that HYT may play an important role in adjunctive therapy in Gram-negative bacterial infections.

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