Combination of Sitagliptin and Silymarin ameliorates liver fibrosis induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats

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العنوان: Combination of Sitagliptin and Silymarin ameliorates liver fibrosis induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats
المؤلفون: Mai El-Sayed Ghoneim, Samia S. Sokar, Magda El-sayad, Abdelhadi M. Shebl
المصدر: Biomedicinepharmacotherapy = Biomedecinepharmacotherapie. 89
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: 0301 basic medicine, Liver Cirrhosis, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Combination therapy, CCL4, Pharmacology, medicine.disease_cause, Protective Agents, Antioxidants, Sitagliptin Phosphate, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Liver Function Tests, Fibrosis, Internal medicine, medicine, Animals, Hypoglycemic Agents, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Carbon Tetrachloride Poisoning, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Glutathione, Rats, Oxidative Stress, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, chemistry, Liver, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Sitagliptin, Carbon tetrachloride, Drug Therapy, Combination, Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury, Liver function tests, business, Oxidative stress, medicine.drug, Silymarin
الوصف: Liver fibrosis is a common pathological condition that occurs in most conditions associated with chronic liver injury. Silymarin is a herbal product widely used for its hepatoprotective effect. Sitagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP4-I), is clinically used as an oral antidiabetic agent. This study was designed to investigate the effects of Sitagliptin, Silymarin, and their combination on established liver fibrosis in carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) rat model. Male albino rats received intraperitoneal injections of CCl4 three times a week for 7 weeks, as well as daily oral treatments of Sitagliptin (100mg/kg) or Silymarin (100mg/kg) or their combination during the 7 weeks of intoxication. Hepatic fibrotic changes were evaluated by measuring hepatic enzymes (ALT, AST, ALP, and GGT) and markers of fibrosis (transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1), tissue 4-hydroxyproline level, histopathological score), oxidative stress (MDA, GSH, and NOx levels), inflammation (interleukin-6) as well as markers of HSCs activation (α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expression). The injected rats with CCl4 for 7 weeks resulted in a marked elevation of hepatic fibrotic changes and reduction of GSH level, while the combination therapy showed a significant decrease in the former one and a significant increase in the later. In conclusion, this study shows that the combination therapy is more beneficial than monotherapy in ameliorating liver fibrosis in rats. Our findings suggest that Sitagliptin alone or in combination with Silymarin may introduce a new strategy for treating liver fibrosis in humans.
تدمد: 1950-6007
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d7d1e91f3f7d2636a08cd1d7581f539d
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28222401
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رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....d7d1e91f3f7d2636a08cd1d7581f539d
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