Wedelolactone inhibits adipogenesis through the ERK pathway in human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells |
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Authors: | Lim Seyoung Jang Hyun-Jun Park Eun Hee Kim Jung Kuk Kim Jung-Min Kim Eung-Kyun Yea Kyungmoo Kim Yun-Hee Lee-Kwon Whaseon Ryu Sung Ho Suh Pann-Ghill |
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Affiliation: | School of Nano-Bioscience & Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea. |
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Abstract: | Wedelolactone is an herbal medicine that is used to treat septic shock, hepatitis and venom poisoning. Although in differentiated and cancer cells, wedelolactone has been identified as anti‐inflammatory, growth inhibitory, and pro‐apoptotic, the effects of wedelolactone on stem cell differentiation remain largely unknown. Here, we report that wedelolactone inhibits the adipogenic differentiation of human adipose tissue‐derived mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs). Wedelolactone reduced the formation of lipid droplets and the expression of adipogenesis‐related proteins, such as CCAAT enhancer‐binding protein‐α (C/EBP‐α), peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor‐γ (PPAR‐γ), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), and adipocyte fatty acid‐binding protein aP2 (aP2). Wedelolactone mediated this process by sustaining ERK activity. In addition, inhibition of ERK activity with PD98059 resulted in reversion of the wedelolactone‐mediated inhibition of adipogenic differentiation. Taken together, these results indicate that wedelolactone inhibits adipogenic differentiation through ERK pathway and suggest a novel inhibitory effect of wedelolactone on adipogenic differentiation in hAMSCs. J. Cell. Biochem. 113: 3436–3445, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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Keywords: | ADIPOGENESIS MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS WEDELOLACTONE |
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