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ArticleLife sciences2019

Antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity induced by stevioside in liver damage: In vivo, in vitro and in silico assays.

Sael Casas-Grajales, Erika Ramos-Tovar, Esmeralda Chávez-Estrada, Diana Alvarez-Suarez, Erika Hernández-Aquino, Karina Reyes-Gordillo, Carlos M Cerda-García-Rojas, Javier Camacho, Víctor Tsutsumi, M Raj Lakshman and 1 more

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Article in Life sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sael Casas-GrajalesDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Erika Ramos-TovarDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Esmeralda Chávez-EstradaDepartment of Chemistry, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Diana Alvarez-SuarezDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Erika Hernández-AquinoDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Karina Reyes-GordilloDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine and Health Science, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2300 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States of America; Lipid Research Laboratory, VA Medical Center, 50 Irving St, Washington, DC 20422, United States of America.
Carlos M Cerda-García-RojasDepartment of Chemistry, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Javier CamachoDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
Víctor TsutsumiDepartment of Infectomics and Molecular Pathogenesis, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico.
M Raj LakshmanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine and Health Science, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2300 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States of America; Lipid Research Laboratory, VA Medical Center, 50 Irving St, Washington, DC 20422, United States of America.
Pablo MurielDepartment of Pharmacology, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico City, Mexico. Electronic address: pmuriel@cinvestav.mx.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MXGeorge Washington University · US

Funding

Akt Isoforms In the Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver DiseaseK01AA025140 · NIAAA · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI REYES-GORDILLO, KARINA · 2017 to 2019
$410k
NIAAA NIH HHS K01 AA025140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsStevioside is a diterpenoid obtained from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) that exhibits antioxidant, antifibrotic, antiglycemic and anticancer properties. Therefore, we aimed to study whether stevioside has beneficial effects in liver injury induced by long-term thioacetamide (TAA) administration and investigated the possible underlying molecular mechanism using in vivo, in vitro and in silico approaches. MAIN

methodsLiver injury was induced in male Wistar rats by TAA administration (200 mg/kg), intraperitoneally, three times per week. Rats received saline or stevioside (20 mg/kg) twice daily intraperitoneally. In addition, cocultures were incubated with either lipopolysaccharide or ethanol. Liver injury, antioxidant and immunological responses were evaluated. KEY

findingsChronic TAA administration induced significant liver damage. In addition, TAA upregulated the protein expression of nuclear factor (NF)-κB, thus increasing the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and decreasing the antioxidant capacity of the liver through downregulation of nuclear erythroid factor 2 (Nrf2). Notably, stevioside administration prevented all of these changes. In vitro, stevioside prevented the upregulation of several genes implicated in liver inflammation when cocultured cells were incubated with lipopolysaccharide or ethanol. In silico assays using tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)-1 and Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4-MD2 demonstrated that stevioside docks with TNFR1 and TLR4-MD2, thus promoting an antagonistic action against this proinflammatory mediator. SIGNIFICANCE: Collectively, these data suggest that stevioside prevented liver damage through antioxidant activity by upregulating Nrf2 and immunomodulatory activity by blocking NF-κB signaling.

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AnimalsAntioxidantsChemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryComputer SimulationDiterpenes, KauraneGlucosidesImmunologic FactorsIn Vitro TechniquesMaleOxidative StressRatsRats, WistarSignal TransductionSweetening AgentsThioacetamideAntioxidantsDiterpenes, KauraneGlucosidesImmunologic FactorssteviosideSweetening AgentsThioacetamideCoculturesDockingImmunomodulatoryNrf2SteviosideTAA

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