Abstract:
:Macrophages and inflammasome pathway are involved in high-glucose toxicity and development of insulin resistance. Silymarin (SMR) was known to modulate glucose homeostasis and reduce inflammation. However, it is still unknown whether SMR possess anti-hyperglycemic effects in diabetic-like knockout mice (Hnf-1αkin/-/Ins.cre mice) with insulin resistance and also unclear how SMR regulates LPS induced stress markers and pro-inflammatory cytokines under stresses of high glucose (HG) or NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Current results show that oral administration of SMR (100 mg/kg) reduced hyperglycemia in the mouse model of maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 3-like mice. In cultured macrophages, SMR (5-20 μg/ml) reduces high glucose (HG)-enhanced expressions of inducible nitric oxide synthase, nitric oxide generation stimulated by LPS; however, no effects on COX-2 expressions. The enhanced interleukin-1β (ΙL-1β) secretions in the presence of HG or palmitate were also significantly down regulated by SMR in dose-dependent manner in LPS-treated macrophages. Such observations may result from the decreased extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation, while without affecting protein kinase C-α phosphorylation and nuclear factor-κB activation. These findings together show that SMR acts as a protector against HG-related stresses not only by lowering hyperglycemia but also suppressing HG- and inflammasome-mediated IL-1β expressions to improve insulin resistance.
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Chem Biol Interactjournal_title
Chemico-biological interactionsauthors
Lu CP,Huang CY,Wang SH,Chiu CH,Li LH,Hua KF,Wu THdoi
10.1016/j.cbi.2018.05.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-06-25 00:00:00pages
12-18eissn
0009-2797issn
1872-7786pii
S0009-2797(17)30867-0journal_volume
290pub_type
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