ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9): 1468-1474.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.09.019

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Effect of Ginsenoside Rb1 on Oxygen Free Radicals in Acute Lung Injury of Mice Induced by H9N2 Swine Influenza Virus

LIU Bao-jian1,2, WANG Cun-lian2, XU Ming-ju2, WEI Dong2, WANG Guo-hua2, ZHANG Rui-hua2, LIU Ying1*, XU Tong2*   

  1. 1. Gansu Agricultural University Lanzhou 730070 China 2. Hebei North UniversityZhangjiakou 075000 China
  • Received:2013-03-25 Online:2013-09-23 Published:2013-09-23

Abstract:

To study effect of ginsenoside Rb1 on oxygen free radicals in acute lung injury of mice induced by A/swine/HeBei/012/2008/swine influenza virus (H9N2 SIV), 120 six to eight weeks old BALB/c mice were randomly divided into three groups with forty in eachThe mice in control group were inoculated intranaslly with an equivalent dilution of noninfectious allantoic. And that of acute lung injury group (ALI group) and Ginsenoside Rb1 group (G-Rb1 group) both were inoculated intranasally with H9N2 SIV diluted in sterile salineand meanwhileanimals of G-Rb1 group were treated with Ginsenoside Rb1 (10 mg·kg1) by intraperitoneal injection continuously for up to seven daysThe clinical signs and body losses were observed in eight infected mice of each groupAt the same timeat the indicated time points after infectionlung histopathology was observed and the activity of T-SODinhibition ability of OH·, MDA and NO content of mouse lungs were detectedThe results showed that mice of ALI group appeared depressionruffled furfeed intake reduction and weight loss post first 2 days of infectionFurthermorepulmonary edemahemorrhageand a number of inflammatory cells exuding from the alveolar were observed in lungs of infected micehowevermice organs in the control group showed no abnormalityFor mice in G-Rb1 group, clinical symptoms were significantly improved, while survival time was delayed and mortality was decreasedOn the 4th, 6th and 8th day after infectionthe inhibition ability of OH· and T-SOD activity were significantly reduced (P<0.05) in ALI group and G-Rb1 group mice compared with that of control group micebut the indexes of G-Rb1 group were significantly higher than that of ALI group (P<0.05)The contents of NO and MDA were increased significantly (P<0.01) in ALI group and G-Rb1 group mice compared with that of control group mice, but these contents of G-Rb1 group was significantly lower than that of ALI group (P<0.01). Results indicate that G-Rb1 could scavenge free radicals in acute lung injury lung induced by H9N2 SIV in miceand G-Rb1 is helpful to attenuate the lung injury induced by oxygen radicals.

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