Screening for the protective effect target of deproteinized extract of calf blood and its mechanisms in mice with CCl4-induced acute liver injury

PLoS One. 2017 Jul 10;12(7):e0180899. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180899. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Liver injury is a common pathological basis of various liver diseases, and long-term liver injury is often an important initiation factor leading to liver fibrosis and even liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It has been reported that deproteinized extract of calf blood (DECB) can inhibit the replication of hepatitis B virus and confers a protective effect on the liver after traumatic liver injury. However, few studies on the regulatory factors and mechanisms of DECB have been reported. In this current study, an acute mouse liver injury model was established with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). The differentially expressed genes and related cell signal transduction pathways were screened using mRNA expression microarray. STEM software V1.3.6 was used for clustering gene functions, and the DAVID and KEGG databases were applied for the analysis. A total of 1355 differentially expressed genes were selected, among which nine were validated by RT-qPCR. The results showed that the Fas, IL1b, Pik3r1, Pik3r5, Traf2, Traf2, Csf2rb2, Map3k14, Pik3cd and Ppp3cc genes were involved in the regulation of DECB in an acute mouse liver injury model. Targets of the protective effects of DECB and its related mechanisms were found in mice with acute liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride, which may provide an important theoretical basis for further DECB research.

MeSH terms

  • Actihaemyl
  • Animals
  • Apoptosis / drug effects
  • Blood Proteins / metabolism
  • Blotting, Western
  • Carbon Tetrachloride* / toxicity
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Liver* / injuries
  • Liver* / metabolism
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred ICR
  • Oxidative Stress / drug effects
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Signal Transduction / drug effects
  • Software

Substances

  • Blood Proteins
  • deproteinized calf blood serum
  • Actihaemyl
  • Carbon Tetrachloride

Grants and funding

This work was financially supported by project “2014Z078” of the Health Department of Jilin Province, project “20140311084YY” Sci-tech Department of Jilin Province and also supported by National and Local United Engineering Research and Development Center for Research on Active Peptides of Medicinal Plants and Animals in Changbai Mountains.