Activation of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha ameliorates ethanol mediated liver fibrosis in mice

Lipids in Health and Disease

Jun Yu¹  Ya Li²  Hai-Ling Di²  Wen-Juan Wu²  Yu-Guo Zhang²  Su-Xian Zhao²  Wen-Cong Li²  Jing-Hua Du²  Rong-Qi Wang²  Wei-Guang Ren²  Ling-Bo Kong²  Yue-Min Nan² 

[1] Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

关键词: Animal experiment;    Fibrosis;    Ethanol;    Liver;    Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha;   

Others  :  1160089
DOI  :  10.1186/1476-511X-12-11

 received in 2012-12-30, accepted in 2013-01-31,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha (PPARα) ameliorates ethanol induced hepatic steatohepatitis. However, its role in alcoholic liver fibrosis has not been fully clarified. The aim of this study was to elucidate the effect and the molecular basis of PPARα in ethanol induced liver fibrosis in mice.

Methods

C57BL/6J mice were fed with 4% ethanol-containing Lieber-DeCarli liquid diet for eight weeks, and intraperitoneal injected with 5% carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) for the last four weeks to induce alcoholic liver fibrosis. PPARα agonist WY14643 was administered to mice during the last couple of weeks. The effects of PPARα induction on liver histology, activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), as well as hepatic expression of inflammatory and fibrogenic factors were assessed.

Results

The ethanol plus CCl₄ treated mice exhibited progressive liver injury including piecemeal necrosis of hepatocytes, severe inflammatory cells infiltration and bridging fibrosis. This was accompanied by down-regulated hepatic expression of PPARα and the protective cytokines adiponectin, heme oxygenase-1 and interleukin-10. Additionally, up-regulation of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha, as well as the profibrogenic genes osteopontin, transforming growth factor-beta 1, visfatin, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 was observed. WY14643 treatment restored expression of cytokines altered by ethanol plus CCl₄ treatment and concomitantly ameliorated the liver injury.

Conclusions

The present study provides evidence for the protective role of PPARα induction in ameliorating ethanol mediated fibrosis through mediation of inflammatory and fibrogenic factors.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Nan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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