- Title
- Protective effect of ocotillol, the derivate of ocotillol-type saponins in panax genus, against acetic acid-induced gastric ulcer in rats based on untargeted metabolomics
- Creator
- Wang, Cuizhu; Yuan, Yuze; Pan, He; Hsu, Alan Chen-Yu; Chen, Jinluan; Liu, Jinping; Li, Pingya; Wang, Fang
- Relation
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences Vol. 21, Issue 7, no. 2577
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21072577
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Gastric ulcer (GU), a prevalent digestive disease, has a high incidence and is seriously harmful to human health. Finding a natural drug with a gastroprotective effect is needed. Ocotillol, the derivate of ocotillol-type saponins in the Panax genus, possesses good anti-inflammatory activity. The study aimed to investigate the gastroprotective effect of ocotillol on acetic acid-induced GU rats. The serum levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and nitric oxide (NO), the gastric mucosa levels of epidermal growth factor, superoxide dismutase and NO were assessed. Hematoxylin and eosin staining of gastric mucosa for pathological changes and immunohistochemical staining of ET-1, epidermal growth factor receptors and inducible nitric oxide synthase were evaluated. A UPLC-QTOF-MS-based serum metabolomics approach was applied to explore the latent mechanism. A total of 21 potential metabolites involved in 7 metabolic pathways were identified. The study helps us to understand the pathogenesis of GU and to provide a potential natural anti-ulcer agent.
- Subject
- ocotillol; gastric ulcer; metabolomics; UPLC-QTOF-MS
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1429450
- Identifier
- uon:38714
- Identifier
- ISSN:1422-0067
- Rights
- © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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