오미자 활성성분 DDB의 NF-κB 신호 전달 및 염증물질 발현 조절

Chronic inflammation in the brain has known to be associated with the development of a various neurological diseases including dementia. In general, the characteristic of neuro-inflammation is the activated microglia over the brain where the pathogenesis occurs. Pro-inflammatory repertoires, interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and nitric oxide (NO), are the main causes of neuro-degenerative disease, particularly in Alzheimer's disease (AD) which is caused by neuronal destruction. Those pro-inflammatory repertoires may lead the brain to chronic inflammatory status, and thus we hypothesized that chronic inflammation would be inhibited when pro-inflammatory repertoires are to be well controlled by inactivating the signal transduction associated with inflammation. Methods: In the present study, we examined whether biphenyl dimethyl dicarboxylate (DDB), an active compound from Schizandra chinensis Baillon, inhibits the NO production by a direct method using Griess reagent and by RT-PCR in the gene expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and IL-1β. Western blots were also used for the analysis of NF-κB and IκB. Results: In the study, we found that DDB effectively inhibited IL-1β as well as NO production in BV-2 microglial cells, and the translocation of NF-κB was comparably inhibited in the presence of DDB comparing those to the positive control, lipopolysaccharide.