Zhimei Guo, Shizhen Tang, Kaili Nie, Jingshuai Liu, Chunhui Hu
{"title":"Studies on absorption mechanism and pharmacokinetic properties of albendazole-bile acid conjugate: In vivo and in vitro.","authors":"Zhimei Guo, Shizhen Tang, Kaili Nie, Jingshuai Liu, Chunhui Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To improve the oral bioavailability of albendazole (ABZ), a series of albendazole-bile acid conjugates (ABCs) were synthesized. ABC's transmembrane transport mechanism and in vivo pharmacokinetic properties were preliminarily studied.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The transmembrane transport mechanism of ABCs was studied using the Caco-2 monolayer cell model and intestinal perfusion model. The concentration of ABCs and ABZ were evaluated using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and HPLC-Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to ABZ, better permeability was observed for different types and concentrations of ABCs using the Caco-2 monolayer cell model, with ABC-C8 showing the highest permeability. The transmembrane transport of ABCs was affected by ASBT inhibitors, indicating an ASBT-mediated active transport mechanism. Additionally, introducing cholic acid resulted in ABZ no longer being a substrate for P-gp, MRP2, and BCRP, effectively reversing ABZ efflux. In vivo unidirectional intestinal perfusion results in rats showed that ABCs altered the absorption site of ABZ from the jejunum to the ileum. The absorption efficiency of ABCs in each intestinal segment was higher than that of ABZ, and the transmembrane transport efficiency decreased with increasing concentrations of ASBT inhibitors. This further confirmed the presence of both passive diffusion and ASBT-mediated active transport mechanisms in the transport of ABCs. The solubility of ABCs in gastric juice and pharmacokinetics in rats showed that ABZ-C4 exhibited enhanced solubility. Moreover, ABCs significantly increased oral bioavailability compared to ABZ, with ABC-C4 showing an approximately 31-fold increase in bioavailability.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The transmembrane transport mechanism of ABCs involves a combination of ASBT-mediated active transport and passive diffusion. Moreover, the incorporation of BAs successfully reverses the efflux of ABZ by efflux proteins. Among the synthesized conjugates, ABC-C4 demonstrated superior dissolution behavior both in vitro and in vivo.</p>","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":"179 ","pages":"117400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142147108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corilagin alleviates ferroptosis in diabetic retinopathy by activating the Nrf2 signaling pathway.","authors":"Wenxin Shi, Yuchen Dong, Shuyan Liu, Fengji Li, Chao Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117409","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and purpose: </strong>Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a prevalent complication of diabetes, with a rising global incidence, and can result in significant vision impairment and potential blindness in adults. Corilagin (COR) has been shown to regulate several pathological processes. However, the specific protective role and mechanism of action of COR in DR remain unknown.</p><p><strong>Experimental approach: </strong>The protective effects and mechanisms of COR in DR were examined using the ARPE-19 cell line and C57BL/6 mice. Intraretinal tissue damage and molecular markers were evaluated to investigate the impact of COR on oxidative stress and cell death pathways.</p><p><strong>Key results: </strong>In vitro, COR significantly reduced the cytotoxic effects of high glucose (HG) on ARPE-19 cells. Furthermore, COR also effectively decreased HG-induced lipid peroxidation, iron deposition, and ferroptosis and reduced damage to retinal tight junction proteins. Similarly, an in vivo study of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced DM mice showed that the daily gavage of COR for eight weeks notably alleviated DR. Mechanistically, COR activated the Nrf2 antioxidant signaling pathway both in vivo and in vitro, preventing HG-induced alterations in morphological and biochemical parameters. Notably, our study demonstrated that compared with controls, Nrf2 knockout mice and siNrf2-treated cells were more vulnerable to ferroptosis under HG conditions, and the protective effect of COR on DR was substantially diminished in these models.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and implications: </strong>These data indicate that COR has a protective effect against HG-induced retinal injury via a mechanism associated with the Nrf2-dependent antioxidant pathway and ferroptosis regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":"179 ","pages":"117409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142147089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhongjun Zheng, Jiefeng Xu, Yi Mao, Zhihan Mei, Jinjiang Zhu, Pin Lan, Xianlong Wu, Shanxiang Xu, Mao Zhang
{"title":"Sulforaphane improves post-resuscitation myocardial dysfunction by inhibiting cardiomyocytes ferroptosis via the Nrf2/IRF1/GPX4 pathway.","authors":"Zhongjun Zheng, Jiefeng Xu, Yi Mao, Zhihan Mei, Jinjiang Zhu, Pin Lan, Xianlong Wu, Shanxiang Xu, Mao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Ferroptosis is an important type of cell death contributing to myocardial dysfunction induced by whole body ischemia reperfusion following cardiac arrest (CA) and resuscitation. Sulforaphane (SFN), known as the activator of the nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), has been proven to effectively alleviate regional myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury. The present study was designed to investigate whether SFN could improve post-resuscitation myocardial dysfunction by inhibiting cardiomyocytes ferroptosis and its potential regulatory mechanism.</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>An in vivo pig model of CA and resuscitation was established. Hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-stimulated AC16 cardiomyocytes was constructed as an in vitro model to simulate the process of CA and resuscitation. In vitro experiment, SFN reduced ferroptosis-related ferrous iron, lipid reactive oxygen species, and malondialdehyde, increased glutathione, and further promoted cell survival after H/R stimulation in AC16 cardiomyocytes. Mechanistically, the activation of Nrf2 with the SFN decreased interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) expression, then reduced its binding to the promoter of glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), and finally recovered the latter's transcription after H/R stimulation in AC16 cardiomyocytes. In vivo experiment, SFN reversed abnormal expression of IRF1 and GPX4, inhibited cardiac ferroptosis, and improved myocardial dysfunction after CA and resuscitation in pigs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SFN could effectively improve myocardial dysfunction after CA and resuscitation, in which the mechanism was potentially related to the inhibition of cardiomyocytes ferroptosis through the regulation of Nrf2/IRF1/GPX4 pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":"179 ","pages":"117408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142156938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"GPR41 and GPR43: From development to metabolic regulation\" [Biomed. Pharmacother. 175 (2024) 116735].","authors":"Do-Hyung Lee, Min-Tae Kim, Joo-Hui Han","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":" ","pages":"117380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facile engineered macrophages-derived exosomes-functionalized PLGA nanocarrier for targeted delivery of dual drug formulation against neuroinflammation by modulation of microglial polarization in a post-stroke depression rat model.","authors":"Zhongyue Lv, Cui Zhao, Xiping Wu, Yinqi Chen, Cheng Zheng, Xiaoling Zhang, Yifei Xu, Lujia Zhu, Haifeng Wang, Guomin Xie, Wu Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117263","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-stroke depression (POSD) is a common difficulty and most predominant emotional syndrome after stroke often consequences in poor outcomes. In the present investigation, we have designed and studied the neurologically active celastrol/minocycline encapsulated with macrophages-derived exosomes functionalized PLGA nanoformulations (CMC-EXPL) to achieve enhanced anti-inflammatory behaviour and anti-depressant like activity in a Rat model of POSD. The animal model of POSD was established through stimulating process with chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUM) stimulations after procedure of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Neuronal functions and Anti-inflammation behaviours were observed by histopathological (H&E) examination and Elisa analyses, respectively. The anti-depressive activity of the nanoformulations treated Rat models were evaluated by open-field and sucrose preference test methods. Microglial polarization was evaluated via flow-cytometry and qRT-PCR observations. The observed results exhibited that prepared nanoformulations reduced the POSD-stimulated depressive-like activities in rat models as well alleviated the neuronal damages and inflammatory responses in the cerebral hippocampus. Importantly, prepared CMC-EXPL nanoformulation effectively prevented the M1 pro-inflammatory polarization and indorsed M2 anti-inflammatory polarization, which indicates iNOS and CD86 levels significantly decreased and upsurged Arg-1 and CD206 levels. CMC-EXPL nanoformulation suggestively augmented anti-depressive activities and functional capability and also alleviated brain inflammation in POSD rats, demonstrating its therapeutic potential for POSD therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":"179 ","pages":"117263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142147094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lihua Shao, Dun Liu, Xuexue Liu, Xueyuan Wang, Xian Yang, Runyan Niu, Shaoping Yin, Peipei Xu, Yonghuan Mao, Xiao Du, Lin Yang
{"title":"Glucose oxidase and MnO<sub>2</sub> functionalized liposome for catalytic radiosensitization enhanced synergistic breast cancer therapy.","authors":"Lihua Shao, Dun Liu, Xuexue Liu, Xueyuan Wang, Xian Yang, Runyan Niu, Shaoping Yin, Peipei Xu, Yonghuan Mao, Xiao Du, Lin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopha.2024.117402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, the integration of radiotherapy and nanocatalytic medicine has gained widespread attention in the treatment of breast cancer. Herein, the glucose oxidase (GOx) and MnO<sub>2</sub> nanoparticles co-modified multifunctional liposome of GOx-MnO<sub>2</sub>@Lip was constructed for enhanced radiotherapy. Introduction of GOx would not only elevate the glucose consumption to starve the cancer cells, but also increased the endogenous H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> level. Meanwhile, high intracellular GSH concentration facilitated the release of Mn<sup>2+</sup> to amplify the cytotoxic ·OH through cascade catalytic reactions within the tumor microenvironment, resulting in a favorable tumor suppression rate of 74.45 %. Furthermore, the blood biochemical and blood routine demonstrated that GOx-MnO<sub>2</sub>@Lip had no obvious toxic side effects. Therefore, this work provided a potential vehicle for synergistic cancer starving therapy, chemodynamic therapy and radiotherapy for improving therapeutic efficacy of breast cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":93904,"journal":{"name":"Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie","volume":"179 ","pages":"117402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142147100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}