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Journal of Functional Foods

Volume 6, January 2014, Pages 339-347
Journal of Functional Foods

Protective effect of polyphenol extracted from Ecklonia cava against ethanol induced oxidative damage in vitro and in zebrafish model

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Highlights

  • The protective effect of polyphenol extract from Ecklonia cava was investigated.

  • Polyphenol extract from Ecklonia cava can be developed as a natural nutraceutical to prevent oxidative stress.

  • Protective effect of polyphenol extract from Ecklonia cava was investigated in vitro and zebrafish model.

Abstract

In the present study, the protective effects of polyphenol extract from Ecklonia cava (EPE) against ethanol-induced cell damage and oxidative stress were investigated in vitro and in vivo. E. cava was selected among twenty marine brown algae due to less cytotoxicity and higher cell viability against the ethanol-induced cell damage. The EPE extract showed the protective effect against the ethanol-mediated apoptosis, which was investigated via nuclear staining with Hoechst 33342 and flow cytometry. Furthermore, the treated EPE extract on zebrafish model was improved the ethanol induced survival rate and attenuated, oxidative stress and cell death. As well this result indicated that EPE extract rendered the protective effect of EPE extract against ethanol induced oxidative stress in vitro and zebrafish model.

Introduction

Ethanol causes a critical damage in the human body and induces some severe effects on biological tissues such as liver, brain, stomach, and intestine. Especially, recent research works show that excessive ethanol intake can lead to have many more health problems, including, liver diseases with fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, chronic hepatitis and hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis (Kang et al., 2012a, Kang et al., 2012b). Therefore, many investigators have researched on hepato-protective agent from natural resources and compound such as Taraxacum officinale and bicyclol (You et al., 2010, Zhao et al., 2008). Recently many research studies reported that the relationship between anti-oxidant and hepato-protective effects that provides the fundamental thoughts for the development of new therapeutic against for alcohol liver diseases (Caro and Cederbaum, 2004, Xu et al., 2003). Recently, many researchers have given a wide attention to search natural antioxidants for hepato-protective effect (Jayachitra, Sreelatha, & Padama, 2012). Also, many studies have reported that seaweeds have the potential to be used as a candidate for natural antioxidants (Luo, Wang, Yu, Qu, & Su, 2010). However, there are no reports focusing on hepato-protective effects of seaweed. Recently, reported marine brown seaweed, showed a high content of polyphenols, known as phlorotannins, recognized to have defensive or protective functions against oxidative stress (Kang et al., 2012). Especially, brown algae, Ecklonia cava have been reported to have high polyphenol content. These polyphenol have been reported to possess various biological effects such as antioxidant, anti-inflammation and protective effect against oxidative stresses (Kang. et al., 2012, Ko et al., 2011, Yang et al., 2012a).

Taken together, the objective of the present study is to evaluate the protective effect of polyphenol extract of E. cava (EPE) against ethanol induce oxidative damage in vitro and zebrafish model.

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Materials

Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM), fetal bovine serum (FBS), penicillin–streptomycin and trypsine–EDTA were purchased from Gibco/BRL (Burlington, Ont, Canada). 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), RNase A, dihydroethidium (DE), propidium iodide (PI), 2,7-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA), diphenyl-1-pyrenylphosphine (DPPP, Dojindo, Japan), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and Hoechst 33342 were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO). The other

Protective effects of brown algae against ethanol induced injury in Chang liver cells

In the present study, we screened the cytotoxicity and protective effects of 20 brown algae samples against ethanol-induced cell damage in Chang liver cell line by MTT assay. When the Chang liver cells were treated with the brown algae extracts, slight cytotoxic effects were observed. Among the tested algae, E. cava did not show any cytotoxic effect to the Chang liver cells (Fig. 2A). Furthermore, the concentration of ethanol was also examined for the ethanol-induced cell damage experiment. At

Discussion

Excessive ethanol intake induces harmful effect to the liver by oxidative stress (Albano, 2006, Cohen et al., 2009, Sun et al., 2001). Alcoholic liver disease characterized by an increase of oxidative stress, apoptosis and cell death in the liver (Ambade and Mandrekar, 2012, Minana et al., 2002). Oxidative stress is considered to have an important role of protective effect in the alcoholic liver disease (Shinde, Ganu, Naik, & Sawant, 2012). Recently, seaweed has been reported as important

Conclusion

In the present study, we report be EPE extract on protective effect against ethanol-induced apoptosis and oxidative stress through the inhibition of ROS generation. Furthermore, additions of EPE extract to zebrafish model improved ethanol induced survival rate, oxidative stress and cell death. This result indicated that intake of EPE could be beneficial to the human health.

Acknowledgment

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2013-0611).

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