| Description: |
Asiatic acid shows antihyperlipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-tumorigenesis effects, it inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome activation, NO and COX-2 signals. Asiatic acid inhibits the expression NDR1/2 kinase and promotes the stability of p21WAF1/CIP1 protein through attenuating NDR1/2 dependent phosphorylation of p21WAF1/CIP1 in HepG2 cells. |
| In vivo: |
| Int Immunopharmacol. 2015 Feb;24(2):232-8. | | Asiatic acid ameliorates dextran sulfate sodium-induced murine experimental colitis via suppressing mitochondria-mediated NLRP3 inflammasome activation.[Pubmed: 25523461] | In the present study, the effect of Asiatic acid, a natural triterpenoid compound, on murine experimental colitis induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and its possible mechanism were examined in vivo and vitro.
METHODS AND RESULTS:
Oral administration of Asiatic acid dose-dependently attenuated the loss of body weight and shortening of colon length induced by DSS. The disease activity index, histopathologic scores of musco and myeloperoxidase activity were also significantly reduced by Asiatic acid treatment. Protein and mRNA levels of DSS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines in colon, including TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IFN-γ, were markedly suppressed by Asiatic acid. At the same time, decreased activation of caspase-1 in peritoneal macrophages was detected in Asiatic acid-treated mice, which suggested that the NLRP3 inflammasome activation was suppressed. In addition, we also found that Asiatic acid dose-dependently inhibited IL-1β secretion, caspase-1 activation as well as inflammasome assembling in vitro. Furthermore, the mechanism of Asiatic acid was related to the inhibition of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species generation and prevention of mitochondrial membrane potential collapse.
CONCLUSIONS:
Taken together, our results demonstrate the ability of Asiatic acid to inhibit NLRP3 inflammasome activation and its potential usage in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. | | Nutrients. 2014 Jan 16;6(1):355-70. | | Asiatic acid alleviates hemodynamic and metabolic alterations via restoring eNOS/iNOS expression, oxidative stress, and inflammation in diet-induced metabolic syndrome rats.[Pubmed: 24441717 ] | Asiatic acid is a triterpenoid isolated from Centella asiatica. The present study aimed to investigate whether Asiatic acid could lessen the metabolic, cardiovascular complications in rats with metabolic syndrome (MS) induced by a high-carbohydrate, high-fat (HCHF) diet.
METHODS AND RESULTS:
Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed with HCHF diet with 15% fructose in drinking water for 12 weeks to induce MS. MS rats were treated with Asiatic acid (10 or 20 mg/kg/day) or vehicle for a further three weeks. Plasma nitrate and nitrite (NOx) were markedly high with upregulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression, but dowregulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) expression (p<0.05). Asiatic acid significantly improved insulin sensitivity, lipid profiles, hemodynamic parameters, oxidative stress markers, plasma TNF-α, NOx, and recovered abnormality of eNOS/iNOS expressions in MS rats (p<0.05).
CONCLUSIONS:
In conclusion, Asiatic acid improved metabolic, hemodynamic abnormalities in MS rats that could be associated with its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory effects and recovering regulation of eNOS/iNOS expression. | | Phytomedicine. 2014 Feb 15;21(3):225-32. | | Antidiabetic and antihyperlipidemic activity of asiatic acid in diabetic rats, role of HMG CoA: in vivo and in silico approaches.[Pubmed: 24075211] | Hyperlipidemia is an associated complication of diabetes and also a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.
METHODS AND RESULTS:
The present study was designed to examine the antihyperlipidemic effect of Asiatic acid (AA) in streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced in male Wistar rats by a single intraperitoneal injection of STZ (40 mg/kg b.w.). Diabetic rats show increased plasma glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, free fatty acids, phospholipids, low density lipoprotein, very low density liprotein, atherogenic index and decreased insulin and high density lipoprotein in diabetic rats. The activity of 3-hydroxy 3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase increased significantly in contrast to the activities of lipoprotein lipase and lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase. In addition, the molecular docking of AA against HMG CoA reductase involved in cholesterol biosynthesis using Argus software. Diabetic rats were treated with AA shifted all these parameters towards normalcy. AA has shown best ligand binding energy 11.8122 kcal/mol. The antihyperlipidemic effect of AA was compared with glibenclamide; a well-known antihyperglycemic drug.
CONCLUSIONS:
In conclusion, this study indicates that AA showed an antihyperlipidemic effect in addition to its antidiabetic effect in experimental diabetes. |
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