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Glycyrrhizic acid nanoparticles inhibit LPS-induced inflammatory mediators in 264.7 mouse macrophages compared with unprocessed glycyrrhizic acid

Authors Wang Wei, Luo M, Fu Y, Wang S, Efferth T, Zu Y

Received 5 September 2012

Accepted for publication 13 November 2012

Published 12 April 2013 Volume 2013:8(1) Pages 1377—1383

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S37788

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Review by Single anonymous peer review

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Wei Wang,1–3 Meng Luo,1–3 Yujie Fu,1–3 Song Wang,1–3 Thomas Efferth,4 Yuangang Zu1–3

1Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, 2Engineering Research Center of Forest Bio-Preparation, 3State Engineering Laboratory of Bio-Resource Eco-Utilization, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China; 4Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Abstract: Glycyrrhizic acid (GA), the main component of radix glycyrrhizae, has a variety of pharmacological activities. In the present study, suspensions of GA nanoparticles with the average particle size about 200nm were prepared by a supercritical antisolvent (SAS) process. Comparative studies were undertaken using lipopolysaccardide(LPS)-stimulated mouse macrophages RAW 264.7 as in vitro inflammatory model. Several important inflammation mediators such as NO, PGE2, TNF-α and IL-6 were examined. These markers were highly stimulated by LPS and were inhibited both by nano-GA and unprocessed GA in a dose-dependent manner, especially PGE2 and TNF-α. However nano-GA and unprocessed GA inhibited NO only at a high concentration. In general, we found that GA nanoparticle suspensions exhibited much better anti-inflammatory activities compared to unprocessed GA.

Keywords: glycyrrhizic acid, nanoparticle, mouse macrophages RAW 264.7, inflammatory cytokines

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