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BMC Complement Med Ther ; 24(1): 130, 2024 Mar 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38521934

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: In a pilot study using both cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as single agents in advanced cancer patients undergoing palliative care in Thailand, the doses were generally well tolerated, and the outcome measure of total symptom distress scores showed overall symptom benefit. The current study aims to determine the intensity of the symptoms experienced by breast cancer patients, to explore the microbiome profile, cytokines, and bacterial metabolites before and after the treatment with cannabis oil or no cannabis oil, and to study the pharmacokinetics parameters and pharmacogenetics profile of the doses. METHODS: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial will be conducted on the breast cancer cases who were diagnosed with breast cancer and currently receiving chemotherapy at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KCMH), Bangkok, Thailand. Block randomization will be used to allocate the patients into three groups: Ganja Oil (THC 2 mg/ml; THC 0.08 mg/drop, and CBD 0.02 mg/drop), Metta Osot (THC 81 mg/ml; THC 3 mg/drop), and placebo oil. The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS), Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQ), microbiome profile, cytokines, and bacterial metabolites will be assessed before and after the interventions, along with pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic profile of the treatment during the intervention. TRIAL REGISTRATION: TCTR20220809001.


Assuntos
Neoplasias da Mama , Canabidiol , Cannabis , Humanos , Feminino , Neoplasias da Mama/tratamento farmacológico , Projetos Piloto , Tailândia , Canabidiol/efeitos adversos , Citocinas , Ensaios Clínicos Controlados Aleatórios como Assunto
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Nutrients ; 15(6)2023 Mar 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36986190

RESUMO

High-sugar diet-induced prediabetes and obesity are a global current problem that can be the result of glucose or fructose. However, a head-to-head comparison between both sugars on health impact is still lacking, and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum dfa1 has never been tested, and has recently been isolated from healthy volunteers. The mice were administered with the high glucose or fructose preparation in standard mouse chaw with or without L. plantarum dfa1 gavage, on alternate days, and in vitro experiments were performed using enterocyte cell lines (Caco2) and hepatocytes (HepG2). After 12 weeks of experiments, both glucose and fructose induced a similar severity of obesity (weight gain, lipid profiles, and fat deposition at several sites) and prediabetes condition (fasting glucose, insulin, oral glucose tolerance test, and Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA score)). However, fructose administration induced more severe liver damage (serum alanine transaminase, liver weight, histology score, fat components, and oxidative stress) than the glucose group, while glucose caused more prominent intestinal permeability damage (FITC-dextran assay) and serum cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-10) compared to the fructose group. Interestingly, all of these parameters were attenuated by L. plantarum dfa1 administration. Because there was a subtle change in the analysis of the fecal microbiome of mice with glucose or fructose administration compared to control mice, the probiotics altered only some microbiome parameters (Chao1 and Lactobacilli abundance). For in vitro experiments, glucose induced more damage to high-dose lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (1 µg/mL) to enterocytes (Caco2 cell) than fructose, as indicated by transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER), supernatant cytokines (TNF-α and IL-8), and glycolysis capacity (by extracellular flux analysis). Meanwhile, both glucose and fructose similarly facilitated LPS injury in hepatocytes (HepG2 cell) as evaluated by supernatant cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-10) and extracellular flux analysis. In conclusion, glucose possibly induced a more severe intestinal injury (perhaps due to LPS-glucose synergy) and fructose caused a more prominent liver injury (possibly due to liver fructose metabolism), despite a similar effect on obesity and prediabetes. Prevention of obesity and prediabetes with probiotics was encouraged.


Assuntos
Fígado Gorduroso , Estado Pré-Diabético , Probióticos , Humanos , Camundongos , Animais , Interleucina-10 , Lipopolissacarídeos , Frutose/efeitos adversos , Células CACO-2 , Interleucina-6 , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa , Glucose , Lactobacillus , Obesidade , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL
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Biology (Basel) ; 12(2)2023 Feb 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36829557

RESUMO

Probiotics may have the potential to protect against breast cancer, partly through systemic immunomodulatory action and active impact upon intestinal microbiota. Given a few clinical studies on their curative role, we conducted a systematic review of the potential effects of probiotics in breast cancer patients and survivors of breast cancer, aiming to support further clinical studies. A literature search was performed using PubMed, Embase, and the CENTRAL databases from inception through to March 2022. A total of eight randomized clinical trials were identified from thirteen articles published between 2004 and 2022. We evaluated quality-of-life measures, observed bacterial species and diversity indices, probiotic-related metabolites, inflammatory biomarkers, and other responses in breast cancer patients and survivors. Results were synthesized qualitatively and quantitatively using random-effects meta-analysis. Different probiotics supplements utilized included Lactobacillus species alone (Lacto), with or without estriol; probiotic combinations of Lactobacillus with Bifidobacterium (ProLB), with or without prebiotic fructooligosaccharides (FOS); ProLB plus Streptococcus and FOS (ProLBS + FOS); and ProLB plus Enterococcus (ProLBE). We found that use of ProLBS with FOS in breast cancer patients and use of ProLBE in survivors of breast cancer show potential benefits in countering obesity and dyslipidemia. ProLBS with FOS use decreases pro-inflammatory TNF-α in breast cancer survivors and improves quality of life in those with breast-cancer-associated lymphedema. Supplementing probiotics capsules (109 CFU) with a prebiotic and using an intake duration of 10 weeks could provide a better approach than probiotics alone.

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Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol ; 40(1): 94-102, 2022 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32563236

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Non-invasive diagnosis of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IF/TA), a major cause of chronic allograft dysfunction in post-kidney transplantation (post-KT), is needed. OBJECTIVE: Several candidates of microRNAs (miRs) in plasma exosome or whole plasma were evaluated for IF/TA biomarker. METHODS: Kidney samples from biopsy and plasma were tested for miRs expression. RESULTS: Expression of miR-21, miR-142-3p and miR-221 in renal histology with high fibrosis score (Banff classification) was higher than the samples with lesser score (n = 17/group). However, expression of these miRs from plasma exosome or from whole plasma of post-KT patients with different severity of IF/TA as determined by percentage of IF/TA including; grade I (5-25%) (n = 15), grade II (26-50%) (n = 15), grade III (≥ 50%) (n = 6) versus stable graft function (no IF/TA) (n = 15) was not different. However, high expression of miR-21 in exosome, but not from whole plasma, was demonstrated in IF/TA grade II and III compared with IF/TA grade I. In contrast, serum creatinine (Scr) and proteinuria, the current standard biomarkers, could not differentiate IF/TA grade I out of grade II/III. There was no correlation between exosome miR-21 versus the current standard renal injury biomarkers, including Scr, blood urea nitrogen and proteinuria, in IF/TA grade II or grade III. CONCLUSIONS: High miR-21 in plasma exosome, but not in whole plasma, indicated high grade IF/TA in post-KT patients. This non-invasive monitoring biomarker allows the more frequent evaluation on IF/TA than renal biopsy (a standard but more invasive procedure) resulting in the earlier management. More studies on patients are warrant.


Assuntos
Exossomos , Transplante de Rim , MicroRNAs , Atrofia/metabolismo , Atrofia/patologia , Biomarcadores , Fibrose , Humanos , Transplante de Rim/efeitos adversos , Túbulos Renais/metabolismo , Túbulos Renais/patologia , MicroRNAs/genética
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Sci Rep ; 11(1): 6367, 2021 03 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33737543

RESUMO

Obesity, a major healthcare problem worldwide, induces metabolic endotoxemia through the gut translocation of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), a major cell wall component of Gram-negative bacteria, causing a chronic inflammatory state. A combination of several probiotics including Lactobacillus acidophilus 5 (LA5), a potent lactic acid-producing bacterium, has previously been shown to attenuate obesity. However, data on the correlation between a single administration of LA5 versus microbiota alteration might be helpful for the probiotic adjustment. LA5 was administered daily together with a high-fat diet (HFD) for 8 weeks in mice. Furthermore, the condition media of LA5 was also tested in a hepatocyte cell-line (HepG2 cells). Accordingly, LA5 attenuated obesity in mice as demonstrated by weight reduction, regional fat accumulation, lipidemia, liver injury (liver weight, lipid compositions, and liver enzyme), gut permeability defect, endotoxemia, and serum cytokines. Unsurprisingly, LA5 improved these parameters and acidified fecal pH leads to the attenuation of fecal dysbiosis. The fecal microbiome analysis in obese mice with or without LA5 indicated; (i) decreased Bacteroidetes (Gram-negative anaerobes that predominate in non-healthy conditions), (ii) reduced total fecal Gram-negative bacterial burdens (the sources of gut LPS), (iii) enhanced Firmicutes (Gram-positive bacteria with potential benefits) and (iv) increased Verrucomycobia, especially Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium with the anti-obesity property. With LA5 administration, A. muciniphila in the colon were more than 2,000 folds higher than the regular diet mice as determined by 16S rRNA. Besides, LA5 produced anti-inflammatory molecules with a similar molecular weight to LPS that reduced cytokine production in LPS-activated HepG2 cells. In conclusion, LA5 attenuated obesity through (i) gut dysbiosis attenuation, partly through the promotion of A. muciniphila (probiotics with the difficulty in preparation processes), (ii) reduced endotoxemia, and (iii) possibly decreased liver injury by producing the anti-inflammatory molecules.


Assuntos
Disbiose/tratamento farmacológico , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Obesidade/tratamento farmacológico , Probióticos/farmacologia , Akkermansia/efeitos dos fármacos , Akkermansia/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Animais , Dieta Hiperlipídica/efeitos adversos , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Disbiose/dietoterapia , Disbiose/microbiologia , Disbiose/patologia , Humanos , Lactobacillus acidophilus/química , Lactobacillus acidophilus/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Obesos , Obesidade/etiologia , Obesidade/microbiologia , Obesidade/patologia , Probióticos/química , RNA Ribossômico 16S/genética
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Biomolecules ; 11(2)2021 01 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33513762

RESUMO

Inflammatory response plays an essential role in the resolution of infections. However, inflammation can be detrimental to an organism and cause irreparable damage. For example, during sepsis, a cytokine storm can lead to multiple organ failures and often results in death. One of the strongest triggers of the inflammatory response is bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), acting mostly through Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). Paradoxically, while exposure to LPS triggers a robust inflammatory response, repeated or prolonged exposure to LPS can induce a state of endotoxin tolerance, a phenomenon where macrophages and monocytes do not respond to new endotoxin challenges, and it is often associated with secondary infections and negative outcomes. The cellular mechanisms regulating this phenomenon remain elusive. We used metabolic measurements to confirm differences in the cellular metabolism of naïve macrophages and that of macrophages responding to LPS stimulation or those in the LPS-tolerant state. In parallel, we performed an unbiased secretome survey using quantitative mass spectrometry during the induction of LPS tolerance, creating the first comprehensive secretome profile of endotoxin-tolerant cells. The secretome changes confirmed that LPS-tolerant macrophages have significantly decreased cellular metabolism and that the proteins secreted by LPS-tolerant macrophages have a strong association with cell survival, protein metabolism, and the metabolism of reactive oxygen species.


Assuntos
Citocinas/metabolismo , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Receptor 4 Toll-Like/genética , Animais , Respiração Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Tolerância Imunológica/efeitos dos fármacos , Inflamação , Espectrometria de Massas , Camundongos , Monócitos/metabolismo , Células RAW 264.7 , Transdução de Sinais/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptor 4 Toll-Like/metabolismo
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Nutrients ; 14(1)2021 Dec 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35010955

RESUMO

Fat reduction and anti-inflammation are commonly claimed properties of probiotics. Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Enterococcus faecium were tested in high fat-induced obesity mice and in vitro experiments. After 16 weeks of probiotics, L. plantarum dfa1 outperforms E. faecium dfa1 on the anti-obesity property as indicated by body weight, regional fat accumulation, serum cholesterol, inflammatory cytokines (in blood and colon tissue), and gut barrier defect (FITC-dextran assay). With fecal microbiome analysis, L. plantarum dfa1 but not E. faecium dfa1 reduced fecal abundance of pathogenic Proteobacteria without an alteration in total Gram-negative bacteria when compared with non-probiotics obese mice. With palmitic acid induction, the condition media from both probiotics similarly attenuated supernatant IL-8, improved enterocyte integrity and down-regulated cholesterol absorption-associated genes in Caco-2 cell (an enterocyte cell line) and reduced supernatant cytokines (TNF-α and IL-6) with normalization of cell energy status (extracellular flux analysis) in bone-marrow-derived macrophages. Due to the anti-inflammatory effect of the condition media of both probiotics on palmitic acid-activated enterocytes was neutralized by amylase, the active anti-inflammatory molecules might, partly, be exopolysaccharides. As L. plantarum dfa1 out-performed E. faecium dfa1 in anti-obesity property, possibly through the reduced fecal Proteobacteria, with a similar anti-inflammatory exopolysaccharide; L. plantarum is a potentially better option for anti-obesity than E. faecium.


Assuntos
Enterococcus faecium/fisiologia , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Lactobacillaceae/fisiologia , Obesidade/prevenção & controle , Probióticos/farmacologia , Animais , Anti-Inflamatórios , Colesterol/metabolismo , Dieta Hiperlipídica/efeitos adversos , Disbiose , Enterócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Enterócitos/metabolismo , Fezes/microbiologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Inflamação , Masculino , Camundongos
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Front Immunol ; 11: 561652, 2020.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33101279

RESUMO

Obesity induces gut leakage and elevates serum lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a major cell wall component of Gram-negative bacteria, through gut translocation. Because Candida albicans is prominent in human gut but not in mouse, C. albicans, a source of (1→3)-ß-D-glucan (BG) in gut contents, was administered in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mice at 1 week before sepsis induction by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). As such, sepsis in Candida-administered obese mice was more severe than obese mice without Candida as determined by mortality, organ injury (liver and kidney), serum cytokines, gut leakage, endotoxemia, serum BG, and fecal Gram-negative bacteria (microbiome analysis). Mice subjected to CLP and fed a HFD, but not treated with Candida demonstrated a similar mortality to non-obese mice with more severe gut leakage and higher serum cytokines. In vitro experiments demonstrated that LPS plus BG (LPS + BG) induced higher supernatant cytokines from hepatocytes (HepG2) and macrophages (RAW264.7), compared with the activation by each molecule alone, and were amplified by palmitic acid, a representative saturated fatty acid. The energy production capacity of HepG2 cells was also decreased by LPS + BG compared with LPS alone as evaluated by extracellular flux analysis. However, Lactobacillus rhamnosus L34 (L34) improved sepsis, regardless of Candida administration, through the attenuation of gut leakage and gut dysbiosis. In conclusion, an impact of gut Candida was demonstrated by Candida pretreatment in obese mice that worsened sepsis through (1) gut dysbiosis-induced gut leakage and (2) amplified systemic inflammation due to LPS, BG, and saturated fatty acid.


Assuntos
Candida , Disbiose , Ácidos Graxos/metabolismo , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Mucosa Intestinal/metabolismo , Sepse/etiologia , Sepse/metabolismo , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Contagem de Colônia Microbiana , Dieta Hiperlipídica , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Fezes/microbiologia , Hepatócitos/imunologia , Hepatócitos/metabolismo , Humanos , Mucosa Intestinal/microbiologia , Mucosa Intestinal/patologia , Macrófagos/imunologia , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Obesos , Permeabilidade , Probióticos
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Cells ; 8(9)2019 09 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31514375

RESUMO

In patients with active lupus, spontaneous endotoxemia and possibly tolerance to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potentially adverse complication. Similarly, previous reports have demonstrated that FcGRIIb deficient mice (FcGRIIb-/-; a lupus mouse model) are susceptible to LPS tolerance-induced decreased cytokine responses that inadequate for the organismal control. Thus, understanding the relationship between FcGRIIb and LPS tolerance could improve the therapeutic strategy for lupus. LPS tolerance can be induced through sequential LPS stimulations in either cells or a model organism. In RAW264.7 (a mouse macrophage cell-line), sequential LPS stimulation induced the secretion of Lipocalin-2 (Lcn-2) despite reduced cytokine secretion and severe energy depletion, as measured by the extracellular flux analysis, typical of LPS tolerance. In contrast, treatment with recombinant Lcn-2 (rLcn-2) attenuated LPS tolerance, as shown by an increase in secreted cytokines and altered macrophage polarization toward M1 (increased iNOS and TNF-α) in RAW264.7 cells. These results suggest a role of Lcn-2 in LPS tolerance attenuation. In bone marrow derived macrophages, Lcn-2 level was similar in LPS tolerant FcGRIIb-/- and wild-type (WT) cells despite the increased LPS tolerance of FcGRIIb-/- cells, suggesting relatively low basal levels of Lcn-2 produced in FcGRIIb-/- cells. In addition, attenuation of LPS tolerance effectuated by granulocyte-monocyte colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) reduced Lcn-2 in both cell types, implying an inverse correlation between Lcn-2 and the severity of LPS tolerance. Consequently, rLcn-2 improved LPS tolerance only in FcGRIIb-/- macrophages and attenuated disease severity of cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) sepsis pre-conditioning with sequential LPS injection (LPS-CLP model) only in FcGRIIb-/- mice, but not in WT mice. To summarize, inadequate Lcn-2 production in FcGRIIb-/- macrophage might, at least in part, be responsible for the inordinate LPS tolerance compared with WT cells. Additionally, supplementation of rLcn-2 attenuates LPS tolerance in FcGRIIb-/- macrophages in vitro, and in FcGRIIb-/- mice with LPS-CLP sepsis in vivo. In conclusion, Lcn-2 secreted by macrophages is possibly an autocrine signal to counter the reduced cytokine secretion in LPS tolerance.


Assuntos
Endotoxemia/imunologia , Tolerância Imunológica/efeitos dos fármacos , Lipocalina-2 , Lipopolissacarídeos/imunologia , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/tratamento farmacológico , Receptores de IgG/imunologia , Animais , Citocinas/imunologia , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Endotoxemia/etiologia , Lipocalina-2/farmacologia , Lipocalina-2/fisiologia , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/complicações , Macrófagos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Células RAW 264.7 , Proteínas Recombinantes/farmacologia
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Int J Mol Sci ; 20(6)2019 Mar 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30889825

RESUMO

Dysfunction of FcGRIIb, the only inhibitory receptor of the FcGR family, is commonly found in the Asian population and is possibly responsible for the extreme endotoxin exhaustion in lupus. Here, the mechanisms of prominent endotoxin (LPS) tolerance in FcGRIIb-/- mice were explored on bone marrow-derived macrophages using phosphoproteomic analysis. As such, LPS tolerance decreased several phosphoproteins in the FcGRIIb-/- macrophage, including protein kinase C-ß type II (PRKCB), which was associated with phagocytosis function. Overexpression of PRKCB attenuated LPS tolerance in RAW264.7 cells, supporting the role of this gene in LPS tolerance. In parallel, LPS tolerance in macrophages and in mice was attenuated by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) administration. This treatment induced several protein kinase C families, including PRKCB. However, PMA attenuated the severity of mice with cecal ligation and puncture on LPS tolerance preconditioning in FcGRIIb-/- but not in wild-type cells. The significant reduction of PRKCB in the FcGRIIb-/- macrophage over wild-type cell possibly induced the more severe LPS-exhaustion and increased the infection susceptibility in FcGRIIb-/- mice. PMA induced PRKCB, improved LPS-tolerance, and attenuated sepsis severity, predominantly in FcGRIIb-/- mice. PRKCB enhancement might be a promising strategy to improve macrophage functions in lupus patients with LPS-tolerance from chronic infection.


Assuntos
Endotoxinas/metabolismo , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/patologia , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Fosfoproteínas/metabolismo , Proteína Quinase C beta/metabolismo , Proteômica , Receptores de IgG/deficiência , Animais , Citocinas/sangue , Lipopolissacarídeos , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/sangue , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Receptores de IgG/metabolismo , Sepse/sangue , Sepse/patologia , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Acetato de Tetradecanoilforbol/farmacologia
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BMC Microbiol ; 18(1): 85, 2018 08 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30119646

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) have several biochemical advantageous properties especially for a candidate of drug carrier. However, the non-conjugated AuNP has a higher rate of cellular uptake than the conjugated ones. Spherical AuNP in a proper size (20-30 nm) is non-toxic to mice and shows anti-inflammatory properties. We tested if the administration of AuNP, as an adjuvant to antibiotics, could attenuate bacterial sepsis in cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) mouse model with antibiotic (imipenem/cilastatin). RESULTS: Indeed, AuNP administration at the time of CLP improved the survival, blood bacterial burdens, kidney function, liver injury and inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1ß and IL-10). AuNP also decreased M1 macrophages (CD86 + ve in F4/80 + ve cells) and increased M2 macrophages (CD206 + ve in F4/80 + ve cells) in the spleens of sepsis mice. The weak antibiotic effect of AuNP was demonstrated as the reduction of E. coli colony after 4 h incubation. In addition, AuNP altered cytokine production of bone-marrow-derived macrophages including reduced TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-1ß but increased IL-10 at 6 and 24 h. Moreover, AuNP induced macrophage polarization toward anti-inflammatory responses (M2) as presented by increased Arg1 (Arginase 1) and PPARγ with decreased Nos2 (inducible nitric oxide synthase, iNos) and Nur77 at 3 h after incubation in vitro. CONCLUSIONS: The adjuvant therapy of AuNP, with a proper antibiotic, attenuated CLP-induced bacterial sepsis in mice, at least in part, through the antibiotic effect and the induction of macrophage function toward the anti-inflammatory responses.


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Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Ceco , Ouro/química , Ligadura/métodos , Macrófagos/imunologia , Nanopartículas Metálicas/química , Punções/métodos , Sepse/tratamento farmacológico , Animais , Arginase/metabolismo , Bactérias/patogenicidade , Doença Hepática Induzida por Substâncias e Drogas , Citocinas/metabolismo , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Escherichia coli/patogenicidade , Interleucina-10/metabolismo , Interleucina-1beta/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Rim/efeitos dos fármacos , Testes de Função Renal , Masculino , Camundongos , Óxido Nítrico Sintase Tipo II/metabolismo , Tamanho da Partícula , Sepse/microbiologia , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/metabolismo
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Sci Rep ; 7: 40006, 2017 01 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28074867

RESUMO

Dysfunctional polymorphisms of FcγRIIb, an inhibitory receptor, are associated with Systemic Lupus Erythaematosus (SLE). Cryptococcosis is an invasive fungal infection in SLE, perhaps due to the de novo immune defect. We investigated cryptococcosis in the FcγRIIb-/- mouse-lupus-model. Mortality, after intravenous C. neoformans-induced cryptococcosis, in young (8-week-old) and older (24-week-old) FcγRIIb-/- mice, was higher than in age-matched wild-types. Severe cryptococcosis in the FcγRIIb-/- mice was demonstrated by high fungal burdens in the internal organs with histological cryptococcoma-like lesions and high levels of TNF-α and IL-6, but not IL-10. Interestingly, FcγRIIb-/- macrophages demonstrated more prominent phagocytosis but did not differ in killing activity in vitro and the striking TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-10 levels, compared to wild-type cells. Indeed, in vivo macrophage depletion with liposomal clodronate attenuated the fungal burdens in FcγRIIb-/- mice, but not wild-type mice. When administered to wild-type mice, FcγRIIb-/- macrophages with phagocytosed Cryptococcus resulted in higher fungal burdens than FcγRIIb+/+ macrophages with phagocytosed Cryptococcus. These results support, at least in part, a model whereby, in FcγRIIb-/- mice, enhanced C. neoformans transmigration occurs through infected macrophages. In summary, prominent phagocytosis, with limited effective killing activity, and high pro-inflammatory cytokine production by FcγRIIb-/- macrophages were correlated with more severe cryptococcosis in FcγRIIb-/- mice.


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Criptococose/patologia , Cryptococcus neoformans/patogenicidade , Macrófagos/imunologia , Receptores de IgG/genética , Envelhecimento , Animais , Encéfalo/patologia , Criptococose/mortalidade , Criptococose/veterinária , Suscetibilidade a Doenças , Feminino , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Rim/patologia , Pulmão/patologia , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/microbiologia , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/patologia , Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico/veterinária , Macrófagos/citologia , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Fagocitose , Receptores de IgG/deficiência , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Taxa de Sobrevida , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/metabolismo
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Shock ; 47(6): 743-752, 2017 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27849678

RESUMO

Hyper-elevated immune response of FcGRIIb-/- mice, a lupus model with an inhibitory-signaling defect, can become exhausted (less subsequent immune-response than the first response) with sequential lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. Endotoxin tolerance-related modifications of inflammatory response were investigated in FcGRIIb-/- mice in both an in vivo sepsis model and in vitro using cultured macrophages. Serum cytokine concentrations, after the second LPS injection (at 5-fold higher levels than the first dose), did not exceed the first dose levels in either FcGRIIb-/- or wild-type mice. These data indicated an endotoxin-tolerance response in both genetic backgrounds. However, the difference of cytokine levels between the first and second LPS injection was more prominent in FcGRIIb-/- mice. More importantly, CLP-induced sepsis after LPS-preconditioning (two separated doses of LPS administration) was more severe in FcGRIIb-/- mice (as measured by mortality rate, bacteria count in blood, serum cytokines, creatinine, and alanine transaminase). An attenuated response was demonstrated after two sequential LPS stimulations of bone-marrow-derived macrophages. Cytokine production was reduced and lower bacterial killing activity occurred with macrophages from FcGRIIb-/- mice relative to wild-type macrophages. Thus, there is a more prominent effect of endotoxin-tolerance in FcGRIIb-/- macrophages relative to wild-type. In conclusion, repeated-LPS administrations induced quantitatively greater endotoxin-tolerance responses in FcGRIIb-/- mice both in vivo and in vitro. Endotoxin-tolerance in vivo was associated with more severe sepsis, at least in part, due to macrophage-dysfunction.


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Endotoxinas/toxicidade , Receptores de IgG/deficiência , Sepse/genética , Sepse/metabolismo , Animais , Citocinas/sangue , Feminino , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Mutantes , Receptores de IgG/genética , Sepse/sangue
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J Oleo Sci ; 63(7): 709-16, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24976614

RESUMO

Para rubber seed was macerated in petroleum ether and n-hexane, individually, for 30 min. The extraction was additionally performed by reflux and soxhlet for 6 h with the same solvent and proportion. Soxhlet extraction by petroleum ether afforded the greatest extractive yield (22.90 ± 0.92%). Although antioxidant activity by means of 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay was insignificantly differed in soxhleted (8.90 ± 1.15%) and refluxed (9.02 ± 0.71%) by n-hexane, soxhlet extraction by n-hexane was significantly (p < 0.05) potent scavenged 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothaiazoline)-6-sulfonic acid) or ABTS radical with trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) of 66.54 ± 6.88 mg/100 g oil. This extract was non cytotoxic towards normal human fibroblast cells. In addition, oleic acid and palmitic acid were determined at a greater content than in the seed of para rubber cultivated in Malaysia, although linoleic and stearic acid contents were not differed. This bright yellow extract was further evaluated on other physicochemical characters. The determined specific gravity, refractive index, iodine value, peroxide value and saponification value were in the range of commercialized vegetable oils used as cosmetic raw material. Therefore, Para rubber seed oil is highlighted as the promising ecological ingredient appraisal for cosmetics. Transforming of the seed that is by-product of the important industrial crop of Thailand into cosmetics is encouraged accordingly.


Assuntos
Cosméticos , Gorduras Insaturadas , Células Cultivadas , Fenômenos Químicos , Gorduras Insaturadas/química , Gorduras Insaturadas/isolamento & purificação , Gorduras Insaturadas/farmacocinética , Fibroblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Sequestradores de Radicais Livres , Humanos , Ácido Oleico/análise , Ácido Palmítico/análise , Pele/citologia , Tailândia
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