NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 1006-1012. doi: 10.16333/j.1001-6880.2021.6.015

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Effect of compound essential oils on endothelial-mesenchymal transition of mouse pulmonary vascular endothelial cells induced by PM2.5

MA Ke-xin1,2,XU Jing-bin1,REN Fei1,XU Xin1,LIU Chao-sheng1,LI Fa-sheng1*   

  1. 1College of Medical Laboratory, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China;2Department of Clincal Laboratory,the Fourth People’s Hospital of Shenyang,Shenyang 110031,China

  • Online:2021-06-28 Published:2021-07-02

Abstract:

To investigate the effect of compound essential oils (CEOs) on EndMT of mouse pulmonary vascular endothelial cells (MHC) induced by PM2.5,and discuss the regulatory mechanism of CEOs by the TGF-β1/SMAD3/p-SMAD3 pathway.MHC cells were cultured in vitro.Design the PM2.5 group (500 μg/mL),the CEOs group (PM2.5 500 μg/mL + CEOs 10-5%),the inhibitor of TGF-β pathway SB431542 group (10 μmol/L) and the PM2.5+SB431542 group (500 μg/mL + 10 μmol/L).The changes of cell viability and migration ability were analyzed by cell proliferation experiment and cell scratch experiment.RT-qPCR and Western blot were used to detect the levels of CDH5,CD31,Col1,Acta2,S100A4 and TGF-β signal pathway related factors.The cell viability of MHC began to increase after 36 h in the PM2.5 group (P<0.000 1),and there is no significant difference in the CEOs group.The cell migration increased significantly in thePM2.5 group,and CEOs can attenuate the effect of PM2.5 on cell migration (36 h,P<0.05).The result of RT-qPCR and Western blot showed that the expression of EndMT related factors showed a positive trend with the prolongation of PM2.5.CEOs had a beneficial intervention effect on EndMT induced by PM2.5 exposure.Compared with the PM2.5 group,Western blot showed that the expression of TGF-β1,TGF-βR1 and p-SMAD3 decreased in the CEOs group,and the expression of EndMT related factors was reversed after 48 h.CEOs ameliorates EndMT induced by PM2.5,which is related to TGF-β1/SMAD3/p-SMAD3 pathway.

Key words: PM2.5, compound essential oils, endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndMT), TGF-β1/SMAD3/p-SMAD3 pathway

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