PMID- 25056779 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150604 LR - 20210716 IS - 1880-3989 (Electronic) IS - 0388-1350 (Linking) VI - 39 IP - 4 DP - 2014 Aug TI - Immunosuppressive potential of bardoxolone methyl using a modified murine local lymph node assay (LLNA). PG - 545-50 AB - 2-Cyano-3, 12-dioxooleana-1, 9-dien-28-oic acid methyl ester (CDDO-Me; bardoxolone methyl) is one of the synthetic oleanane triterpenoids (SOs). It is known that it is the strongest Nrf2/ARE signaling inducer of SOs and slightly inhibits immune response. Little was known about the immunomodulatory action of CDDO-Me in vivo. We assessed its immunosuppressive potential by using the modified mouse lymph node assay (LLNA) including immunosuppression-related gene expression analysis. In the modified LLNA, CDDO-Me showed a significant decrease in lymph node weight and changes in expressions of the immunosuppression-related genes, Zfp459 and Fmo2. It has been already reported that a decrease in lymph node weight was induced by several types of immunosuppressive chemicals such as calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolites, steroids, and alkylators. In addition, changes in Zfp459 and Fmo2 expression was reported in response after only treatment of antimetabolites. From these results, CDDO-Me is considered to have an immunosuppressive action and similar mechanism to antimetabolites. FAU - Kitsukawa, Mika AU - Kitsukawa M AD - Toxicology and Pharmacokinetics Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc. FAU - Tsuchiyama, Hiromi AU - Tsuchiyama H FAU - Maeda, Akihisa AU - Maeda A FAU - Oshida, Keiyu AU - Oshida K FAU - Miyamoto, Yohei AU - Miyamoto Y LA - eng PT - Letter PL - Japan TA - J Toxicol Sci JT - The Journal of toxicological sciences JID - 7805798 RN - 0 (Antimetabolites) RN - 0 (Immunosuppressive Agents) RN - 6SMK8R7TGJ (Oleanolic Acid) RN - CEG1Q6OGU1 (bardoxolone methyl) RN - EC 1.13.- (Oxygenases) RN - EC 1.14.13.8 (dimethylaniline monooxygenase (N-oxide forming)) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antimetabolites MH - Female MH - Gene Expression/drug effects MH - Immune Tolerance/genetics MH - *Immunosuppressive Agents MH - *Local Lymph Node Assay MH - Lymph Nodes/drug effects MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Oleanolic Acid/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology MH - Organ Size/drug effects MH - Oxygenases EDAT- 2014/07/25 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/05 06:00 CRDT- 2014/07/25 06:00 PHST- 2014/07/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/07/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/05 06:00 [medline] AID - DN/JST.JSTAGE/jts/39.545 [pii] AID - 10.2131/jts.39.545 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Toxicol Sci. 2014 Aug;39(4):545-50. doi: 10.2131/jts.39.545.