Baicalin alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroglial activation and inflammatory factors activation in hippocampus
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Baicalin alleviates lipopolysaccharideinduced neuroglial activation and inflammatory factors activation in hippocampus of adult mice Murad-Ali Shah1†, Dong-Ju Park1†, Ju-Bin Kang1, Myeong-Ok Kim2 and Phil-Ok Koh1*
Abstract Baicalin is a natural flavonoid that exerts a variety of pharmaceutical effects such as anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an endotoxin that releases inflammatory cytokines and induces inflammatory response. This study was investigated the anti-inflammatory mechanism of baicalin against LPSinduced inflammatory response in the hippocampus. Adult mice were randomly grouped into control, LPS-treated, and LPS and baicalin co-treated animals. LPS (250 μg/kg/day) and baicalin (10 mg/kg/day) were administered intraperitoneally for 7 consecutive days. We measured neuroglia cells activation and inflammatory factors activation using Western blot analysis and immunofluorescence staining techniques. Ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule-1 (Iba-1) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are widely used as microglia and astrocyte markers, respectively. LPS treatment increased Iba-1 and GFAP expression, while baicalin co-treatment attenuated this overexpression. Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) is a key mediator of inflammation. Baicalin co-treatment alleviated LPS-induced increase of NF-κB in the hippocampus. In addition, LPS treatment upregulated pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). However, baicalin co-treatment prevented LPS-induced increases of IL-1β and TNF-α in the hippocampus. Results from the present study showed that baicalin suppresses LPS-induced neuroinflammation by regulating microglia and astrocyte activation and modulating inflammatory factors in the hippocampus. Thus, these results demonstrate that baicalin has neuroprotective effect by alleviates microglia and astrocyte activation and modulates inflammatory response by suppressing NF-κB expression in hippocampus with neuroinflammation caused by LPS. Keywords: Baicalin, Hippocampus, Lipopolysaccharide, Neuroinflammation
* Correspondence: [email protected] † Murad-Ali Shah and Dong-Ju Park contributed equally to this work. 1 Department of Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine, Research Institute of Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, 501 Jinjudaero, Jinju 52828, South Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If m
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