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. 2017 Aug:188:1-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.imlet.2017.05.011. Epub 2017 May 21.

Ursodeoxycholic acid attenuates experimental autoimmune arthritis by targeting Th17 and inducing pAMPK and transcriptional corepressor SMILE

Eun-Jung Lee  1 , Jeong-Eun Kwon  1 , Min-Jung Park  1 , Kyung-Ah Jung  2 , Da-Som Kim  1 , Eun-Kyung Kim  1 , Seung Hoon Lee  1 , Jong Young Choi  3 , Sung-Hwan Park  4 , Mi-La Cho  5
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Ursodeoxycholic acid attenuates experimental autoimmune arthritis by targeting Th17 and inducing pAMPK and transcriptional corepressor SMILE

Eun-Jung Lee et al. Immunol Lett. 2017 Aug.

Abstract

Background: Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) has been known that UDCA has prominent effects on liver, however, there is little known about its influence on autoimmune disease. Here, the benefit of UDCA on arthritis rheumatoid (RA) in vivo was tested.

Methods: RA mouse were induced using collagen II (CIA, collagen induced arthritis) where the disease severity or UDCA-related signaling pathway such as AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) or small heterodimer partner interacting leucine zipper protein (SMILE) was evaluated by westerblot and immunohistochemical staining. Gene expression was measured by realtime-polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Results: The administration of UDCA effectively alleviated the arthritic score and incidence with decreased cartilage damage and lipid metabolic parameters. UDCA also suppressed the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. It was confirmed that UDCA upregulated the expression of SMILE and transcriptional activity of PPARγ via controlling AMPK or p38 activity.

Conclusions: In the present study, the therapeutic effect of UDCA inducing SMILE through AMPK activation in rheumatoid arthritis mouse as well as other autoimmune disease was proposed.

Keywords: AMPK; PPARγ; Rheumatoid arthritis (RA); SMILE; Th17 cell; Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA).

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