School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
Mediators Inflamm. 2020 Nov 11;2020:8414062. doi: 10.1155/2020/8414062. eCollection 2020.
Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are challenging diseases with the high mortality in a clinical setting. Baicalin (BA) is the main effective constituent isolated from the Chinese medical herb Georgi, and studies have proved that it has a protective effect on ALI induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) due to the anti-inflammatory efficacy. However, BA has low solubility which may limit its clinical application. Hence, we prepared a novel drug delivery system-Baicalin liposome (BA-LP) in previous research-which can improve some physical properties of BA. Therefore, we aimed to explore the effect of BA-LP on ALI mice induced by LPS. In pharmacokinetics study, the values of and AUC in the BA-LP group were significantly higher than that of the BA group in normal mice, indicating that BA-LP could prolong the duration time of BA. The BA-LP group also showed a higher concentration in lung tissues than the BA group. Pharmacodynamics studies showed that BA-LP had a better effect than the BA group at the same dosage on reducing the W/D ratio, alleviating the lung injury score, and decreasing the proinflammatory factors (TNF-, IL-1) and total proteins in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BALF). In addition, the therapeutic effects of BA-LP showed a dose-dependent manner. Western blot analysis indicated that the anti-inflammatory action of BA could be attributed to the inhibition of the TLR4-NFBp65 and JNK-ERK signaling pathways. These results suggest that BA-LP could be a valuable therapeutic candidate in the treatment of ALI.
急性肺损伤(ALI)和急性呼吸窘迫综合征(ARDS)是临床治疗中具有高死亡率的挑战性疾病。黄芩苷(BA)是从中药黄芩中分离得到的主要有效成分,研究证明其具有抗炎作用,对脂多糖(LPS)诱导的 ALI 具有保护作用。然而,BA 的溶解度较低,可能限制了其临床应用。因此,我们在之前的研究中制备了一种新的药物传递系统-黄芩苷脂质体(BA-LP),可以改善 BA 的一些物理性质。因此,我们旨在探讨 BA-LP 对 LPS 诱导的 ALI 小鼠的作用。在药代动力学研究中,正常小鼠中 BA-LP 组的 和 AUC 值明显高于 BA 组,表明 BA-LP 可以延长 BA 的作用时间。BA-LP 组在肺组织中的浓度也高于 BA 组。药效学研究表明,在相同剂量下,BA-LP 组比 BA 组在降低 W/D 比、减轻肺损伤评分和降低支气管肺泡灌洗液(BALF)中促炎因子(TNF-、IL-1)和总蛋白方面具有更好的效果。此外,BA-LP 的治疗效果呈剂量依赖性。Western blot 分析表明,BA 的抗炎作用可能归因于 TLR4-NFBp65 和 JNK-ERK 信号通路的抑制。这些结果表明,BA-LP 可能是治疗 ALI 的有价值的治疗候选物。