PUBLICATION
Quercetin exerts a neuroprotective effect through inhibition of the iNOS/NO system and pro-inflammation gene expression in PC12 cells and in zebrafish
- Authors
- Zhang, Z.J., Cheang, L.C., Wang, M.W., and Lee, S.M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-101209-25
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- International journal of molecular medicine 27(2): 195-203 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects*
- Inflammation Mediators/metabolism
- Adrenergic Agents/pharmacology
- Neuroprotective Agents/pharmacology
- Neurons/cytology
- Neurons/drug effects*
- Animals
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II/antagonists & inhibitors*
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II/genetics
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II/metabolism
- Oxidopamine/toxicity
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Nitric Oxide*/antagonists & inhibitors
- Quercetin/pharmacology*
- Rats
- PC12 Cells
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 21132259 Full text @ Int. J. Mol. Med.
Citation
Zhang, Z.J., Cheang, L.C., Wang, M.W., and Lee, S.M. (2011) Quercetin exerts a neuroprotective effect through inhibition of the iNOS/NO system and pro-inflammation gene expression in PC12 cells and in zebrafish. International journal of molecular medicine. 27(2):195-203.
Abstract
Flavonoids have been reported to be potent antioxidants and beneficial in the treatment of oxidative stress-related diseases. Quercetin, a major flavonoid naturally occurring in plants, deserves attention because of its beneficial effects observed in various in vitro and in vivo neural damage models; however, the actions of quercetin are paradoxical. In an effort to confirm the neuroprotective effect of quercetin and to elucidate its mechanism of action, the neuroprotective effects of quercetin in PC12 cells and in zebrafish models were investigated. In this study, the selective dopaminergic neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), was used to induce neural damage in PC12 cells and zebrafish models. Pretreatment with quercetin offered neuroprotection against 6-OHDA-induced PC12 cell death. Moreover, quercetin could prevent 6-OHDA-induced PC12 cell apoptosis and 6-OHDA-stimulated dopaminergic neuron loss in zebrafish. Interestingly, quercetin was able to protect, but not rescue the dopaminergic neuron damage when zebrafish were treated with quercetin at different maturation stages of the blood brain barrier. A mechanistic study showed that quercetin could inhibit NO over-production and iNOS over-expression in PC12 cells and could down-regulate the over-expression of pro-inflammatory genes (e.g. IL-1β, TNF-α and COX-2) in zebrafish, suggesting that these genes play a role in the neuroprotective effect of quercetin. The objective of this study was to provide a scientific rationale for the clinical use of quercetin, leading to its development as an effective therapeutic agent for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping