These results demonstrated that blue honeysuckle possessed suitable properties for use as a potent hepatoprotective medicinal food. - GreenMedInfo Summary
Hepatoprotective effects of blue honeysuckle on CCl-induced acute liver damaged mice.
Food Sci Nutr. 2019 Jan ;7(1):322-338. Epub 2018 Nov 27. PMID: 30680187
You-Suk Lee
The objective of this study was to evaluate the hepatoprotective effects of blue honeysuckle (BH) on carbon tetrachloride (CCl)-induced acute hepatic damage in mice. The experiment used a total of 60 ICR mice, which were divided into six groups. Except for the intact control groups, all groups received a single intraperitoneal injection of CClafter a 7 day pre-treatment period with distilled water, BH extracts, or silymarin. Twenty-four hours after the CClinjection, the following observations, representative of classical oxidative stress-mediated centrolobular necrotic acute liver injuries, were observed: decreased body weight; small nodule formation and enlargement on the gross inspections with related liver weight increase; elevation of serum AST and ALT, increases in hepatic lipid peroxidation and related depletion of endogenous antioxidants and antioxidative enzymes; centrolobular necrosis; increases in apoptotic markers, lipid peroxidation markers, and oxidative stress markers. However, liver damage was significantly inhibited by the pre-treatment with BH extracts. The present study demonstrated that oral administration of BH extracts prior to exposure to CClconferred favorable hepatoprotective effects. These results demonstrated that BHe possessed suitable properties for use as a potent hepatoprotective medicinal food.