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14-deoxy-11,12-didehydroandrographolide attenuates excessive inflammatory responses and protects mice lethally challenged with highly pathogenic A(H5N

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Antiviral Res. 2016 Jul 27. pii: S0166-3542(16)30072-9. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2016.07.020. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]14-deoxy-11,12-didehydroandrographolide attenuates excessive inflammatory responses and protects mice lethally challenged with highly pathogenic A(H5N1) influenza viruses.[/h] Cai W[SUP]1[/SUP], Chen S[SUP]2[/SUP], Li Y[SUP]2[/SUP], Zhang A[SUP]2[/SUP], Zhou H[SUP]2[/SUP], Chen H[SUP]2[/SUP], Jin M[SUP]3[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been an excellent treasury for centuries' accumulation of clinical experiences, which deserves to be tapped for potential drugs and improved using modern scientific methods. 14-Deoxy-11,12-didehydroandrographolide (DAP), a major component of an important TCM named Andrographis paniculata, with no toxic concentration of 1000 mg/kg/day, effectively reduced the mortality and weight loss of mice lethally challenged with A/chicken/Hubei/327/2004 (H5N1) or A/PR/8/34 (H1N1) influenza A viruses (IAV) when initiated at 4 h before infection, or A/duck/Hubei/XN/2007 (H5N1) when initiated at 4 h or 48 h before infection, or 4 h post-infection (pi). DAP (1000 or 500 mg/kg/day) also significantly diminished lung virus titres of infected mice when initiated at 4 h or 48 h before infection, or 4 h pi. In the infection of A/duck/Hubei/XN/2007 (H5N1), DAP (1000 mg/kg/day) treatment initiated at 48 h before infection gained the best efficacy that virus titres in lungs of mice in log[SUB]10[/SUB]TCID[SUB]50[/SUB]/mL reduced from 2.61 ? 0.14 on 3 days post-infection (dpi), 2.98 ? 0.17 on 5 dpi, 3.54 ? 0.19 on 7 dpi to 1.46 ? 0.14 on 3 dpi, 1.86 ? 0.18 on 5 dpi, 2.03 ? 0.21 on 7 dpi. Moreover, DAP obviously alleviated lung histopathology and also strongly inhibited proinflammatory cytokines/chemokines expression. The mRNA levels of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, CCL-2/MCP-1, IFN-α, IFN-β, IFN-γ, MIP-1α, MIP-1β in lungs of A/duck/Hubei/XN/2007 (H5N1)-infected mice and serum protein expression of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, CCL-2/MCP-1 and CXCL-10/IP-10 in mice infected with all the three strains of IAV were all significantly reduced by DAP. Results demonstrated that DAP could restrain both the host intense inflammatory responses and high viral load, which were considered to contribute to the pathogenesis of H5N1 virus and should be controlled together in a clinical setting. Considering the anti-inflammatory and anti-IAV activities of DAP, DAP may be a promising active component obtained from A. paniculata, which can be further investigated as a useful constitute of curative strategies in the future against IAV, the H5N1 strains in particular.
Copyright ? 2016. Published by Elsevier B.V.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] 14-Deoxy-11,12-didehydroandrographolide; Andrographis paniculata; Anti-inflammatory; Antiviral; H5N1; Traditional Chinese medicine

PMID: 27476045 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2016.07.020
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