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ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Ferulic Acid as a Protective Antioxidant of Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells.

Hye-Jeong Hwang, So Rok Lee, Ju-Gyeong Yoon, Hye-Ri Moon, Jingnan Zhang, Eunmi Park, Su-In Yoon, Jin Ah Cho

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Article in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hye-Jeong HwangDepartment of Agrofood Resources, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1948-4442
So Rok LeeDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9917-6652
Ju-Gyeong YoonDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea.
Hye-Ri MoonDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea.
Jingnan ZhangDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea.
Eunmi ParkDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Hannam University, 1646, Yuseung-daero, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 34054, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1911-4652
Su-In YoonResearch Center for Microbiome-Brain Disorders, Chungnam University, Daejeon 34134, Korea.
Jin Ah ChoDepartment of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9265-2409
Chungnam National University · KRHannam University · KRRural Development Administration · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2020R1A5A8017671National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2019R1A2B5B01070133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intestinal epithelial barrier is the primary and most significant defense barrier against ingested toxins and pathogenic bacteria. When the intestinal epithelium barrier is breached, inflammatory response is triggered. GWAS data showed that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress markers are elevated in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients, which suggests ER stress regulation might alleviate IBD symptoms. Ferulic acid (FA) is a polyphenol that is abundant in plants and has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, although it is unclear whether FA has these effects on the intestine. Therefore, we investigated the effect of FA in vitro and in vivo. It was found that FA suppressed ER stress, nitric oxide (NO) generation, and inflammation in polarized Caco-2 and T84 cells, indicating that the ER stress pathway was implicated in its anti-inflammatory activities. The permeability of polarized Caco-2 cells in the presence and absence of proinflammatory cytokines were decreased by FA, and MUC2 mRNA was overexpressed in the intestines of mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) supplemented with FA. These results suggest that FA has a protective effect on intestinal tight junctions. In addition, mouse intestine organoids proliferated significantly more in the presence of FA. Our findings shed light on the molecular mechanism responsible for the antioxidant effects of FA and its protective benefits on the health of the digestive system.

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ER stressferulic acidintestinal epithelial cellspro-inflammatory response

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PMID35892649
PMCPMC9331426
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