Polygonatum sibiricum Polysaccharides Attenuate Lipopoly-Saccharide-Induced Septic Liver Injury by Suppression of Pyroptosis via NLRP3/GSDMD Signals

Autor: Linxia Xiao, Liang Qi, Guozhe Zhang, Hongxia Liu, Yaqin Gu, Lihu Zhang, Mingguang Zhang, Hongyan Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 27, Iss 18, p 5999 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27185999
Popis: Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome with high mortality. Acute liver injury is an independent predictor for poor prognosis in septic patients. Polygonatum sibiricum polysaccharides (PSP) have been reported to possess anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective activities. To evaluate the effects of PSP on septic liver injury and demonstrate the potential molecular mechanisms, the septic acute liver injury (SALI) model was established in BALB/c mice via intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We found that PSP treatment could remarkably reduce the 48 h mortality rate of septic mice; alleviate liver histopathologic damage; lower the activity of neutrophil infiltration marker MPO in liver tissue; and decrease the levels of liver function indexes AST, ALT, ALP, and TBIL, inflammatory cytokines TNFα and IL-6, and pyroptosis-related inflammatory cytokines IL-18 and IL-1β in serum. TUNEL staining and detecting GSDMD-NT protein expression level in liver tissue revealed that PSP could restrain excessive pyroptosis. In addition, PSP treatment reversed the upregulations of mRNA expression levels of the NLRP3/GSDMD signals in the liver. Our results indicated the potential protective role of PSP against SALI by inhibiting pyroptosis via NLRP3/GSDMD signals.
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