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Baicalin Downregulates RLRs Signaling Pathway to Control Influenza A Virus Infection and Improve the Prognosis

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2018 Feb 26;2018:4923062. doi: 10.1155/2018/4923062. eCollection 2018.
[h=1]Baicalin Downregulates RLRs Signaling Pathway to Control Influenza A Virus Infection and Improve the Prognosis.[/h] Pang P[SUP]#[/SUP][SUP]1[/SUP], Zheng K[SUP]#[/SUP][SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Wu S[SUP]1[/SUP], Xu H[SUP]1[/SUP], Deng L[SUP]1[/SUP], Shi Y[SUP]1[/SUP], Chen X[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of baicalin on controlling the pulmonary infection and improving the prognosis in influenza A virus (IAV) infection. PCR and western blot were used to measure the changes of some key factors in RLRs signaling pathway. MSD electrochemiluminescence was used to measure the expression of pulmonary inflammatory cytokines including IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p70, and KC/GRO. Flow cytometry was used to detect the proportion of Th1, Th2, Th17, and Treg. The results showed that IAV infection led to low body weight and high viral load and high expression of RIG-I, IRF3, IRF7, and NF-κB mRNA, as well as RIG-I and NF-κB p65 protein. However, baicalin reduced the rate of body weight loss, inhibited virus replication, and downregulated the key factors of the RLRs signaling pathway. Besides, baicalin reduced the high expression inflammatory cytokines in lung and decreased the ratios of Th1/Th2 and Th17/Treg to arouse a brief but not overviolent inflammatory response. Therefore, baicalin activated a balanced host inflammatory response to limit immunopathologic injury, which was helpful to the improvement of clinical and survival outcomes.


PMID: 29681974 PMCID: PMC5846362 DOI: 10.1155/2018/4923062
 
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