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Immunomodulatory effects of silymarin after subacute exposure to mice: A tiered approach immunotoxicity screening

  • Karimi, Gholamreza;Hassanzadeh-Josan, Samed;Memar, Bahram;Esmaeili, Seyed-Alireza;Riahi-Zanjani, Bamdad
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2018
  • Silymarin is a flavonoid complex extracted from the Silybum marianum plant with a wide range of pharmacological and biochemical effects. In the present study, the immunomodulatory effects of silymarin were investigated in BALB/c mice. Silymarin was administered daily by intraperitoneal injection at doses of 50, 100 and 150 mg/kg for 14 consecutive days. Following the exposure, host hematological parameters, spleen cellularity and histopathological examination, as well as delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses, hemagglutination titers (HA), splenocyte cytokine production and lymphocyte proliferation assay were studied in all of the test groups of animals. The results showed that the low dose of silymarin (50 mg/kg) could stimulate both cellular and humoral immune functions in the treated hosts. In addition, silymarin at 100 mg/kg appeared to impact on DTH responses and lymphoproliferation. Based on the finding here, it would seem that silymarin has efficient immunostimulant properties. As a recommendation, the application of silymarin along with acupuncture technique (herbal acupuncture) can be thought as a good plan to modulate and enhance the immune system for the management of several immunodeficiency disorders. However, further studies are required to demonstrate this hypothesis.

Flow Cytometrical Analysis of the Antitumor and Immunomodulatory Activities of GLB-A and GLB-B, the Protein-polysaccharide Fractions of the Growing Tips of Ganoderma Lucidum (영지버섯 생장점 단백다당체 GLB-A, GLB-B의 항암효과 및 면역 활성에 관한 유세포 분석학적 연구)

  • Oh, Jung-Yeon;Chung, Kyeong-Soo
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.487-493
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    • 1998
  • In the previous study we described the antitumor effect of GLB, a protein-polysaccharide fraction separated from the growing tips of Ganoderma lucidum, against sarcoma 18 0 solid tumor in ICR mice. In this study, we separated an acidic protein-polysaccharide fraction, GLB-A, and a basic protein-polyaccharide fraction, GLB-B, from GLB by differential precipitation, and elucidated their antitumor and immunomodulatory activities. When ip injected at the dose of 50mg/kg/day into the ICR mice, GLB-A and GLB-B inhibited the growth of ip implantated sarcoma 180 cells by 32.4% and 21.0%, respectively. Of these, GLB-A increased the % lymphoblast in the spleen of the tumor-bearing and the normal mice by 20.9% and 123.0%, and the CD4/CD8 ratio by 73.3% and 22.4%, respectively. GLB-A also increased the expression of CD25 (IL-2 receptor alpha ch0ain) in normal mice by 82.0%. These results strongly suggest that GLB-A is a promising candidate for antitumor immunomodulatory medicine.

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Water Extracted Evodiae Fructus Possesses Immunomodulatory Activities on Cyclophosphamide Induced Immunesuppression (오수유 열수추출액이 Cyclophosphamide 유도 면역억제에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Young-Sun;Lee, Geum-Hong;Park, Jong-Hyun;Kwon, Young-Kyu;Shin, Sang-Woo
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1450-1455
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    • 2007
  • Evodiae Fructus(EF) has been used as Traditional medicine for the treatment of headache, abdominal pain, hemorrhage, and menorrhae in many Asian countries. The present study was conducted to investigate the immunomodulatory effect on cyclophosphamide(CY)-induced immunesuppression of water extracted EF(EFE). In the mouse spleen cell proliferation assay, EFE enhanced mitogenic activity and restored the CY-induced cell suppression. In the nitric oxide(NO) assay, EFE inhibited NO production and iNOS protein levels in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells. In the GC-MS analysis, many ingredients of EFE were detected by solvents. These results indicated that EFE can modulate immune response through immune cell proliferation, the regulation of NO production and the inhibition of CY-induced immunotoxicity.

Modulatory Effects of Chrysanyhemi Flos Pharmacopuncture on Nitric-oxide (NO) Production in Murin Macrophagy Cells

  • Shin, Hwa-Young;Lee, Hyun-Jong;Lee, Yun-Kyu;Lim, Seong-Chul;Kim, Jae-Soo
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.29-33
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: Much evidence exists that herbs have effective immunomodulatory activities. Chrysanthemi Flos (CF) is effective in clearing heat, reducing inflammation, dropping blood pressure and treating headache and is used as a pharmaceutical raw material for an immune enhancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the modulatory effect of Chrysanthemi Flos pharmacopuncture on nitric-oxide (NO) production in activating macrophages. Methods: After a murine macrophage cell line, RAW 264.7, was cultured in the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), immune-modulating abilities of CF were evaluated by using NO, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-${\alpha}$) production and phagocytic activity of macrophages. Results: CF enhanced the activities of macrophages by increasing the phagocytic activity and decreasing NO production. Especially, both LPS and CF, 200 ${\mu}g/ml$, treatment could significantly reduce the NO production, but did not change the production of IL-6 and TNF-${\alpha}$. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that CF may be of immunomodulatory value, especially for adverse diseases due to increased NO production. It may have potential for use as immunoenhancing pharmacopuncture.

Immunomodulatory Effects of Hominis Placenta Extract Injection into an Acupuncture Point on the Experimental Subcutaneous Tumor Model of Mice

  • Lee, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.1285-1289
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    • 2006
  • Hominis placenta (HP) has been used as an agent for promoting physiological function in traditional asian medicine. The present study was peformed to investigate whether HP acupuncture treatment in an experimental tumor mice model inhibit tumor growth through immunomodulatory effects. Mice were inoculated subcutaneously with colon26-L5 cells on the back. Three days after tumor inoculation, HP herbal acupuncture treatment was conducted on BL18 acupoint every other day for three weeks. HP Herbal acupuncture treatment significantly suppressed the primary tumor growth and prolonged survival rate. To evaluate immunomodulatory effect of HP acupuncture, splenocytes proliferation assay, fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and ELISA for IFN- ${\gamma}$, and IL-4 cytokine level. HP herbal acupuncture enhanced the mitogenic activity of Balb/c whole splenocytes induced by various mitogenic stimuli and increased immune cell population such as T cell, B cell, Th cell, Tc cell and Macrophages. HP herbal acupuncture caused a marked increase of production of Th1 cytokine (IFN- ${\gamma}$ ,) and decrease of production of Th2 cytokine (IL-4). These results indicated that HP herbal acupuncture suppresses tumor growth through a mechanism leading to a Th1 dominant immune state.

Oligopeptide derived from solid-state fermented cottonseed meal significantly affect the immunomodulatory in BALB/c mice treated with cyclophosphamide

  • Liu, Jiancheng;Sun, Hong;Nie, Cunxi;Ge, Wenxia;Wang, Yongqiang;Zhang, Wenju
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.1791-1799
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    • 2018
  • In this study, the immunomodulatory activity of oligopeptide (CP) derived from solid-state fermented cottonseed meal were investigated in immunosuppressed BALB/c mice models by treatment with cyclophosphamide (CY). Results indicated that oligopeptide increased the thymus and spleen indices of CY-treated mice. The count of plague forming cells (PFC) and the content of half serum hemolysis ($HC_{50}$) in immunosuppressive mice were restored to the normal level in CP-10 and CP-20 groups while the cytokines interleukin (IL)-2, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-${\alpha}$) were increased significantly in CP-20 group. Similar increasing the immunoglobulin of IgG and IgM content in the serum of CP-10 group were also observed. These findings indicated that oligopeptide derived from solid-state fermented cottonseed meal had a strong immune-enhancing activity as well as a protective effect against immunosuppression induced by cyclophosphamide in mice.

Effect of Differential Thermal Drying Conditions on the Immunomodulatory Function of Ginger

  • Lee, Ji Su;Kim, Bomi;Kim, Jae Hwan;Jeong, Minju;Lim, Seokwon;Byun, Sanguine
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1053-1060
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    • 2019
  • Thermal drying is a common process used in the food industry for the modification of agricultural products. However, while various studies have investigated the alteration in physiochemical properties and chemical composition after drying, research focusing on the relationship between different dehydration conditions and bioactivity is scarce. In the current study, we prepared dried ginger under nine different conditions by varying the processing time and temperature and compared their immunomodulatory effects. Interestingly, depending on the drying condition, there were significant differences in the immunestimulating activity of the dried ginger samples. Gingers processed at $50^{\circ}C$ 1h displayed the strongest activation of macrophages measured by $TNF-{\alpha}$ and IL-6 levels, whereas, freezedried or $70^{\circ}C$- and $90^{\circ}C$-dried ginger showed little effect. Similar results were recapitulated in primary bone marrow-derived macrophages, further confirming that different dehydration conditions can cause significant differences in the immune-stimulating activity of ginger. Induction of ERK, p38, and JNK signaling was found to be the major underlying molecular mechanism responsible for the immunomodulatory effect of ginger. These results highlight the potential to improve the bioactivity of functional foods by selectively controlling processing conditions.

Characterization of Plasmodium berghei Homologues of T-cell Immunomodulatory Protein as a New Potential Candidate for Protecting against Experimental Cerebral Malaria

  • Cui, Ai;Li, Yucen;Zhou, Xia;Wang, Lin;Luo, Enjie
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.101-115
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    • 2019
  • The pathogenesis of cerebral malaria is biologically complex and involves multi-factorial mechanisms such as microvascular congestion, immunopathology by the pro-inflammatory cytokine and endothelial dysfunction. Recent data have suggested that a pleiotropic T-cell immunomodulatory protein (TIP) could effectively mediate inflammatory cytokines of mammalian immune response against acute graft-versus-host disease in animal models. In this study, we identified a conserved homologue of TIP in Plasmodium berghei (PbTIP) as a membrane protein in Plasmodium asexual stage. Compared with PBS control group, the pathology of experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) in rPbTIP intravenous injection (i.v.) group was alleviated by the downregulation of pro-inflammatory responses, and rPbTIP i.v. group elicited an expansion of regulatory T-cell response. Therefore, rPbTIP i.v. group displayed less severe brain pathology and feverish mice in rPbTIP i.v. group died from ECM. This study suggested that PbTIP may be a novel promising target to alleviate the severity of ECM.

Microbial Components and Effector Molecules in T Helper Cell Differentiation and Function

  • Changhon Lee;Haena Lee;John Chulhoon Park;Sin-Hyeog Im
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.7.1-7.27
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    • 2023
  • The mammalian intestines harbor trillions of commensal microorganisms composed of thousands of species that are collectively called gut microbiota. Among the microbiota, bacteria are the predominant microorganism, with viruses, protozoa, and fungi (mycobiota) making up a relatively smaller population. The microbial communities play fundamental roles in the maturation and orchestration of the immune landscape in health and disease. Primarily, the gut microbiota modulates the immune system to maintain homeostasis and plays a crucial role in regulating the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of inflammatory, neuronal, and metabolic disorders. The microbiota modulates the host immune system through direct interactions with immune cells or indirect mechanisms such as producing short-chain acids and diverse metabolites. Numerous researchers have put extensive efforts into investigating the role of microbes in immune regulation, discovering novel immunomodulatory microbial species, identifying key effector molecules, and demonstrating how microbes and their key effector molecules mechanistically impact the host immune system. Consequently, recent studies suggest that several microbial species and their immunomodulatory molecules have therapeutic applicability in preclinical settings of multiple disorders. Nonetheless, it is still unclear why and how a handful of microorganisms and their key molecules affect the host immunity in diverse diseases. This review mainly discusses the role of microbes and their metabolites in T helper cell differentiation, immunomodulatory function, and their modes of action.