Gene interactions and pathways from curated databases and text-mining
Clin Nutr 2004, PMID: 15380914

Allicin inhibits spontaneous and TNF-alpha induced secretion of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines from intestinal epithelial cells.

Lang, Alon; Lahav, Maor; Sakhnini, Emad; Barshack, Iris; Fidder, Herma H; Avidan, Benjamin; Bardan, Eitan; Hershkoviz, Rami; Bar-Meir, Simon; Chowers, Yehuda

OBJECTIVE

Allicin, the active substance of fresh crushed garlic has different biological activities and was implicated as an anti-inflammatory agent. Epithelial cells have an important role in intestinal inflammation. The aim of this study was to assess the immunomodulatory effect of allicin on intestinal epithelial cells.

METHODS

The spontaneous and TNF-alpha-stimulated secretion of IL-1beta, IL-8, IP-10 and MIG from HT-29 and Caco-2 cells was tested with, or without pretreatment with allicin. Cytokine secretion was assessed using ELISA and expression of mRNA was determined by an RNA protection assay.

RESULTS

Allicin markedly inhibited the spontaneous and TNF-alpha -induced secretion of IL-1beta, IL-8, IP-10 and MIG from the two different cell lines in a dose-dependent manner and suppressed the expression of IL-8 and IL-1beta mRNA levels. In addition, allicin suppressed the degradation of IkappaB. No effect on cell viability was noted.

CONCLUSIONS

These observations indicate that allicin exerts an inhibitory immunomodulatory effect on intestinal epithelial cells and suggest that allicin may have the potential to attenuate intestinal inflammation.

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Text Mining Data

IP-10 → TNF-alpha: " The spontaneous and TNF-alpha stimulated secretion of IL-1beta, IL-8, IP-10 and MIG from HT-29 and Caco-2 cells was tested with, or without pretreatment with allicin "

IL-1beta → TNF-alpha: " The spontaneous and TNF-alpha stimulated secretion of IL-1beta , IL-8, IP-10 and MIG from HT-29 and Caco-2 cells was tested with, or without pretreatment with allicin "

IL-8 → TNF-alpha: " The spontaneous and TNF-alpha stimulated secretion of IL-1beta, IL-8 , IP-10 and MIG from HT-29 and Caco-2 cells was tested with, or without pretreatment with allicin "

MIG → TNF-alpha: " The spontaneous and TNF-alpha stimulated secretion of IL-1beta, IL-8, IP-10 and MIG from HT-29 and Caco-2 cells was tested with, or without pretreatment with allicin "

Manually curated Databases

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