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Essential oil extracted from Quzhou Aurantii Fructus prevents acute liver failure through inhibiting lipopolysaccharide-mediated inflammatory response

  • Nat Prod Bioprospect. 2023 Oct 7;13(1):36. doi: 10.1007/s13659-023-00398-9.
Tian Lan # 1,  Wen Wang # 2,  De-Lian Huang # 3,  Xi-Xi Zeng 1,  Xiao-Xiao Wang 4,  Jian Wang 4,  Yu-Hua Tong 5 6,  Zhu-Jun Mao 7 8,  Si-Wei Wang 9 10
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 The Joint Innovation Center for Health and Medicine, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, No. 100 Minjiang Road, Quzhou, 324000, China.
  • 2 Preventive Treatment Center, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University Affiliated Four-provinces Marginal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Quzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Quzhou, 324000, China.
  • 3 School of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
  • 4 Department of Drug Analysis Center, Quzhou Institute for Food and Drug Control, Quzhou, 324000, China.
  • 5 The Joint Innovation Center for Health and Medicine, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, No. 100 Minjiang Road, Quzhou, 324000, China. [email protected].
  • 6 Department of Ophthalmology, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Quzhou, 324000, China. [email protected].
  • 7 Department of Ophthalmology, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Quzhou, 324000, China. [email protected].
  • 8 College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, No. 548 Binwen Road, Hangzhou, 310053, China. [email protected].
  • 9 The Joint Innovation Center for Health and Medicine, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, No. 100 Minjiang Road, Quzhou, 324000, China. [email protected].
  • 10 Department of Ophthalmology, Quzhou People's Hospital, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Quzhou, 324000, China. [email protected].
  • # Contributed equally.
PMID: 37804362 DOI: 10.1007/s13659-023-00398-9
Abstract

Quzhou Aurantii Fructus (QAF) has a long history as a folk medicine and food for the treatment of liver diseases. While our earlier study provided evidence of hepatoprotective properties contained within the Flavonoids and limonins constituents in QAF, the potential preventative effects afforded by essential oil components present within QAF remains enigmatic. In this study, we prepared Quzhou Aurantii Fructus essential oil (QAFEO) and confirmed its anti-inflammatory effects on liver inflammation through experimentation on lipopolysaccharide and D-galactosamine (LPS/D-GalN) induced acute liver failure (ALF) mouse models. Using RNA-sequence (RNA-seq) analysis, we found that QAFEO prevented ALF by systematically blunting the pathways involved in response to LPS and Toll-like Receptor signaling pathways. QAFEO effectively suppressed the phosphorylation of tank-binding kinase 1 (TBK1), TGF-beta activated kinase 1 (TAK1), interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3), and the activation of mitogen activated kinase-like protein (MAPK) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) pathways in vivo and in vitro. Importantly, QAFEO substantially reduced myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88)- Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) interaction levels. Moreover, 8 compounds from QAFEO could directly bind to REAL, TAK1, MyD88, TBK1, and IRF3. Taken together, the results of our study support the notion that QAFEO exerts a hepatoprotective effect through inhibiting LPS-mediated inflammatory response.

Keywords

Acute liver failure; Essential oil; Inflammation; LPS; Quzhou Aurantii Fructus.

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