Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Journal of Research in Pharmacy
2024 , Vol 28 , Issue 1
Natural hepatoprotectives earthworm extract protein & goat milk in-vitro model rat primary hepatocytes exposed to carbon tetrachloride revealed toxicity and oxidative stress
1Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-32, West Bengal, India
DOI :
10.29228/jrp.693
The assessment of bioactive ingredients with potential hepatoprotective properties focuses primarily on
in-vitro bioassays. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of pre-treating primary hepatocyte cells with
hepatoprotective earthworm extract to prevent damage from carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Cell viability, aspartate
aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and lipid peroxidation or malondialdehyde (MDA) levels
activities, as well as hepatoprotective activity of Earthworm extract protein powder (EEP) different concentration were
25, 50, and 100 μg/ml, Goat milk powder (GP) and Silymarin (SLM 100 ug/ml), and CCl4 were assessed in-vitro assay
on the laboratory model rat primary hepatocyte culture. The selection of the CCl4 minimum lethal dosage might
occasionally make examining liver damage more time consuming. Therefore, we examine CCl4 effectiveness at low to
high doses in primary rat hepatocytes. Using primary hepatocyte as a toxicity model, we explored the cellular toxicity
and oxidative stress related to CCl4 exposure. Our findings imply that the CCl4-induced cytotoxicity is fundamentally
influenced by oxidative stress. The MTT assay results exhibited that CCl4 lower to higher doses decreased the viability
of primary hepatocytes within six hours of treatment and hepatoprotective activity of EEP was identified. The lipid
peroxidation assay revealed that MDA levels were inhibited by EEP and GP treatment in primary hepatocytes. Our
results also showed EEP and GP treatment significantly inhibited AST, ALT, inflammatory marker Tnf-α and MDA
level increase due to inducing CCl4 in in-vitro rat primary hepatocytes. According to the studies, EEP and GP function
as an efficient hepatoprotective agent and prevent CCl4 treatment-induced primary hepatocyte toxicity.
Keywords :
Hepatoprotective; Primary hepatocyte; Earthworm extract protein; Goatmilk; Silymarin