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KMID : 0613820230330020158
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Journal of Life Science
2023 Volume.33 No. 2 p.158 ~ p.168
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The Protective Role of Gleditsiae fructus against Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Lee Jun-Ki
Lee Se-Hui
Seo Dong-Ju
Lee Kang-Hee
Park So-Jung
Park Sun
Kim Tae-Kyung
Yang Jin-Young
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Abstract
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Natural products have been used to mitigate the effects of cancer and infectious diseases, as they feature diverse bioactivities, such as antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory effects. Here, we chose 10 natural products that are well-known as pulmonary enhancers and investigated their bactericidal effects on Streptococcus pneumoniae. In the disk diffusion assay, the growth of S. pneumoniae was significantly regulated by G. fructus treatment regardless of extraction method used. We first adopted spraying as a novel delivery method for G. fructus. Interestingly, mice exposed to G. fructus three times a day for 2 weeks were resistant to S. pneumoniae intranasal infection (shown both through body weight loss and survival rates compared to the control group). Moreover, we confirmed that exposure to G. fructus regulated the colonization of the bacteria despite the sustained inflammation in the lung after exposure to S. pneumoniae, indicating that migrated inflammatory immune cells may involve a host defense mechanism against pulmonary infectious diseases. While a similar number of granulocytes (CD11b+Ly6C+Ly6G+), neutrophils (CD11b+Ly6CintLy6G+), and monocytes (CD11b+Ly6CintLy6G-) were found between groups, a significantly increased number of alveolar macrophages (CD11b+CD11chiF4/80+) was detected in BAL fluids of mice pre-exposed to G. fructus at 5 days after S. pneumonia infection. Taken together, our data suggest that this usage of G. fructus can induce protective immunity against bacterial infection, indicating that facial spray may be helpful in enhancing the defense mechanism against pulmonary inflammation and in evaluating the efficacy of natural products as immune enhancers against respiratory diseases.
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KEYWORD
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Alveolar macrophage, Gleditsiae fructus, immune enhancer, spray, Streptococcus pneumoniae
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