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Schisanhenol: A potential drug for the treatment of cytokine storm

2024-03-07
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Background and objectives

Cytokine storm (CS) is an acute systemic inflammatory response with limited effective interventions up to now. The treatment experience of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests great potential in the intervention of CS by herbal medicine. This study aimed to investigate whether Schisanhenol (SSH), an active component of the Chinese herbal medicine Schisandra chinensis, has the potential to interfere with CS.

 

Methods

The effect of SSH on nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) signaling pathway activity was observed with THP-1/NF-κB cells. THP-1 and abdominal macrophages were used as cell models to observe the effect of SSH on inflammatory responses. The lipopolysaccharide-induced acute inflammatory response in mice was used to observe the effect of SSH on systemic inflammatory response and induced acute lung injury. The potential biological mechanism of SSH against inflammatory storm was explored by network pharmacology and molecular docking methods.

 

Results

SSH significantly inhibited NF-κB pathway activity and suppressed macrophage and systemic inflammatory responses in mice. SSH also effectively alleviated lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury. The network pharmacology results showed that estimated glomerular filtration rate, matrix metalloproteinase 9, proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase Src, and mammalian target of rapamycin are potential key target proteins of SSH.

 

Conclusions

The findings of this study demonstrate that SSH inhibited the macrophage inflammatory response and cytokine production at both the systemic and local levels in mice. Additionally, SSH effectively mitigated acute lung injury resulting from CS. Furthermore, network pharmacological analysis revealed that SSH has the ability to suppress inflammatory response through multiple mechanisms.

 

https://www.xiahepublishing.com/2472-0712/ERHM-2023-00054

 

The study was recently published in the Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine.

Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine (ERHM) publishes original exploratory research articles and state-of-the-art reviews that focus on novel findings and the most recent scientific advances that support new hypotheses in medicine. The journal accepts a wide range of topics, including innovative diagnostic and therapeutic modalities as well as insightful theories related to the practice of medicine. The exploratory research published in ERHM does not necessarily need to be comprehensive and conclusive, but the study design must be solid, the methodologies must be reliable, the results must be true, and the hypothesis must be rational and justifiable with evidence.

 

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