PUBLICATION
Antialcohol and Hepatoprotective Effects of Tamarind Shell Extract on Ethanol-Induced Damage to HepG2 Cells and Animal Models
- Authors
- Han, S.C., Huang, R.P., Zhang, Q.Y., Yan, C.Y., Li, X.Y., Li, Y.F., He, R.R., Li, W.X.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-230312-41
- Date
- 2023
- Source
- Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 12(5): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- NRF2, alcohol liver disease, chick embryo, oxidative stress, tamarind shell extract
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 36900595 Full text @ Foods
Citation
Han, S.C., Huang, R.P., Zhang, Q.Y., Yan, C.Y., Li, X.Y., Li, Y.F., He, R.R., Li, W.X. (2023) Antialcohol and Hepatoprotective Effects of Tamarind Shell Extract on Ethanol-Induced Damage to HepG2 Cells and Animal Models. Foods (Basel, Switzerland). 12(5):.
Abstract
Alcohol liver disease (ALD) is one of the leading outcomes of acute and chronic liver injury. Accumulative evidence has confirmed that oxidative stress is involved in the development of ALD. In this study, we used chick embryos to establish ALD model to study the hepatoprotective effects of tamarind shell exttract (TSE). Chick embryos received 25% ethanol (75 μL) and TSE (250, 500, 750 μg/egg/75 μL) from embryonic development day (EDD) 5.5. Both ethanol and TSE were administrated every two days until EDD15. Ethanol-exposed zebrafish and HepG2 cell model were also employed. The results suggested that TSE effectively reversed the pathological changes, liver dysfunction and ethanol-metabolic enzyme disorder in ethanol-treated chick embryo liver, zebrafish and HepG2 cells. TSE suppressed the excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) in zebrafish and HepG2 cells, as well as rebuilt the irrupted mitochondrial membrane potential. Meanwhile, the declined antioxidative activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), together with the content of total glutathione (T-GSH) were recovered by TSE. Moreover, TSE upregulated nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) and heme oxyense-1 (HO-1) expression in protein and mRNA level. All the phenomena suggested that TSE attenuated ALD through activating NRF2 to repress the oxidative stress induced by ethanol.
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