PMID- 36900595 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230313 IS - 2304-8158 (Print) IS - 2304-8158 (Electronic) IS - 2304-8158 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 5 DP - 2023 Mar 3 TI - Antialcohol and Hepatoprotective Effects of Tamarind Shell Extract on Ethanol-Induced Damage to HepG2 Cells and Animal Models. LID - 10.3390/foods12051078 [doi] LID - 1078 AB - Alcohol liver disease (ALD) is one of the leading outcomes of acute and chronic liver injury. Accumulative evidence has confirmed that oxidative stress is involved in the development of ALD. In this study, we used chick embryos to establish ALD model to study the hepatoprotective effects of tamarind shell exttract (TSE). Chick embryos received 25% ethanol (75 muL) and TSE (250, 500, 750 mug/egg/75 muL) from embryonic development day (EDD) 5.5. Both ethanol and TSE were administrated every two days until EDD15. Ethanol-exposed zebrafish and HepG2 cell model were also employed. The results suggested that TSE effectively reversed the pathological changes, liver dysfunction and ethanol-metabolic enzyme disorder in ethanol-treated chick embryo liver, zebrafish and HepG2 cells. TSE suppressed the excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) in zebrafish and HepG2 cells, as well as rebuilt the irrupted mitochondrial membrane potential. Meanwhile, the declined antioxidative activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), together with the content of total glutathione (T-GSH) were recovered by TSE. Moreover, TSE upregulated nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) and heme oxyense-1 (HO-1) expression in protein and mRNA level. All the phenomena suggested that TSE attenuated ALD through activating NRF2 to repress the oxidative stress induced by ethanol. FAU - Han, Shao-Cong AU - Han SC AD - College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming 650500, China. FAU - Huang, Rong-Ping AU - Huang RP AD - College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming 650500, China. FAU - Zhang, Qiong-Yi AU - Zhang QY AD - Guangdong Engineering Research Centre of Chinese Medicine & Disease Susceptibility, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. FAU - Yan, Chang-Yu AU - Yan CY AD - Guangdong Engineering Research Centre of Chinese Medicine & Disease Susceptibility, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. FAU - Li, Xi-You AU - Li XY AD - College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming 650500, China. FAU - Li, Yi-Fang AU - Li YF AD - Guangdong Engineering Research Centre of Chinese Medicine & Disease Susceptibility, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. FAU - He, Rong-Rong AU - He RR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5505-5672 AD - Guangdong Engineering Research Centre of Chinese Medicine & Disease Susceptibility, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. FAU - Li, Wei-Xi AU - Li WX AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1702-8435 AD - College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming 650500, China. LA - eng GR - 81960780/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ GR - U1801284/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ GR - (2019FF002 (-007), 2017FF116 (-015))/Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department-Applied Basic Research Joint Special Funds of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230303 PL - Switzerland TA - Foods JT - Foods (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101670569 PMC - PMC10000874 OTO - NOTNLM OT - NRF2 OT - alcohol liver disease OT - chick embryo OT - oxidative stress OT - tamarind shell extract COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2023/03/12 06:00 MHDA- 2023/03/12 06:01 PMCR- 2023/03/03 CRDT- 2023/03/11 01:07 PHST- 2023/02/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/02/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/02/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/03/11 01:07 [entrez] PHST- 2023/03/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/12 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2023/03/03 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - foods12051078 [pii] AID - foods-12-01078 [pii] AID - 10.3390/foods12051078 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Foods. 2023 Mar 3;12(5):1078. doi: 10.3390/foods12051078.