ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Combined Effects of Methyldopa and Flavonoids on the Expression of Selected Factors Related to Inflammatory Processes and Vascular Diseases in Human Placenta Cells-An In Vitro Study.
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- The effect of antihypertensive treatment on longitudinal changes in PLGF and sFlt-1 in women with new onset hypertension in pregnancy.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Effect of ophthalmic preparation of methyldopa on induced ocular hypertension in rabbits.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
- Betulin-NLC-hydrogel for the Treatment of Psoriasis-like Skin Inflammation: Optimization, Characterisation, andCurrent drug delivery · 2025Article
- Scutellarin attenuated tubule cell apoptosis by modulating HIF-1α for the treatment of DKD: the insight integrating network analysis, machine learning and single-cell transcriptome.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Combined Effects of Methyldopa and Baicalein orPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Identification of New Molecular Biomarkers in Ovarian Cancer Using the Gene Expression Profile.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The effect of a traditional Chinese quadri-combination therapy and its component quercetin on recurrent spontaneous abortion: A clinical trial, network pharmacology and experiments-based study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Should Renal Inflammation Be Targeted While Treating Hypertension?Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
The aim of the study was to investigate combined effects of flavonoids (apigenin, baicalein, chrysin, quercetin, and scutellarin) and methyldopa on the expression of selected proinflammatory and vascular factors in vitro for prediction of their action in pregnancy-induced hypertension. The research was conducted on a trophoblast-derived human choriocarcinoma cell line and a primary human umbilical vein endothelial cell line. Cytotoxicity of compounds in selected concentrations (20, 40, and 100 µmol) was measured using the MTT test and the concentration of 40 µmol was selected for further analysis. Subsequently, their effects with methyldopa on the expression of selected markers responsible for inflammation (TNF-α; IL-1β; IL-6) and vascular effects (hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-HIF-1α; placental growth factor-PIGF; transforming growth factor β-TGF-β; vascular endothelial growth factor-VEGF) at the mRNA and protein levels were assessed. It was found that every combined administration of a flavonoid and methyldopa in these cells induced a down-regulating effect on all tested factors, except PIGF, especially at the mRNA expression level. As hypertension generally raises TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, HIF-1α, TGF-β, and VEGF mRNA expression and/or protein levels, the results obtained in the studied model may provide a positive prognostic factor for such activity in vivo.
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