Dieckol Isolated from Ecklonia cava Protects against High-Glucose Induced Damage to Rat Insulinoma Cells by Reducing Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis
2012
LEE, Seung-Hong | PARK, Mi-Hwa | KANG, Sung-Myung | KO, Seok-Chun | KANG, Min-Cheol | CHO, Seungmok | PARK, Pyo-Jam | JEON, Byong-Tae | Kim, Se-Kwon | HAN, Ji-Sook | JEON, You-Jin
Pancreatic β cells are very sensitive to oxidative stress and this might play an important role in β cell death with diabetes. The protective effect of dieckol, one of the phlorotannin polyphenol compounds purified from Ecklonia cava (E. cava), against high glucose-induced oxidative stress was investigated by using rat insulinoma cells. A high-glucose (30 mM) treatment induced the death of rat insulinoma cells, but dieckol, at a concentration 17.5 or 70 µM, significantly inhibited the high-glucose induced glucotoxicity. Treatment with dieckol also dose-dependently reduced thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), and the nitric oxide level increased by a high glucose concentration. In addition, the dieckol treatment increased the activities of antioxidative enzymes including catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-px) in high glucose-pretreated rat insulinoma cells. Dieckol protected rat insulinoma cells damage under high glucose conditions. These effects were mediated by suppressing apoptosis and were associated with increased anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 expression, and reduced pro-apoptotic cleaved caspase-3 expression. These findings indicate that dieckol might be useful as a potential pharmaceutical agent to protect against the glucotoxicity caused by hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress associated with diabetes.
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