Hepatoprotective potential of chestnut bee pollen on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic damages in rats
| dc.contributor.author | Yıldız, Oktay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Can, Zehra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saral, Özlem | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yuluğ, Esin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Öztürk, Ferhat | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aliyazıcıoğlu, Rezzan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Canpolat, Sinan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kolaylı, Sevgi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-09T07:21:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-09T07:21:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.department | AÇÜ, Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Beslenme ve Diyetetik Bölümü | en_US |
| dc.description | This study was supported by Research Fund of Karadeniz Technical University (Project no. 2009.111.002.5). Two of the authors, Oktay Yildiz and Huseyin Sahin, were funded by TUBITAK-BIDEB for their graduate studies. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Bee pollen has been used as an apitherapy agent for several centuries to treat burns, wounds, gastrointestinal disorders, and various other diseases. The aim of our study was to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of chestnut bee pollen against carbon tetrachloride (CCI4)-induced liver damage. Total phenolic content, flavonoid, ferric reducing/antioxidant power, and DPPH radical activity measurements were used as antioxidant capacity determinants of the pollen. The study was conducted in rats as seven groups. Two different concentrations of chestnut bee pollens (200 and 400 mg/kg/day) were given orally and one group was administered with silibinin (50 mg/kg/day, i.p.) for seven days to the rats following the CCI4 treatment. The protective effect of the bee pollen was monitored by aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (AST) activities, histopathological imaging, and antioxidant parameters from the blood and liver samples of the rats. The results were compared with the silibinin-treated and untreated groups. We detected that CCI4 treatment induced liver damage and both the bee pollen and silibinin-treated groups reversed the damage; however, silibinin caused significant weight loss and mortality due, severe diarrhea in the rats. The chestnut pollen had showed 28.87 mg GAE/g DW of total phenolic substance, 8.07 mg QUE/g DW of total flavonoid, 92.71 mg Cyn-3-glu/kg DW of total anthocyanins, and 9 mg beta-carotene/100 g DW of total carotenoid and substantial amount of antioxidant power according to FRAP and DPPH activity. The results demonstrated that the chestnut bee pollen protects the hepatocytes from the oxidative stress and promotes the healing of the liver damage induced by CCI4 toxicity. Our findings suggest that chestnut bee pollen can be used as a safe alternative to the silibinin in the treatment of liver injuries. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Yıldız, O., Can, Z., Saral, Ö., Yuluğ, E., Öztürk, F., Aliyazıcıoğlu, R., ... & Kolaylı, S. (2013). Hepatoprotective potential of chestnut bee pollen on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic damages in rats. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine, 2013. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1155/2013/461478 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | N/A | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11494/3597 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | N/A | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.institutionauthor | Saral, Özlem | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Hindawi LTD | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.title | Hepatoprotective potential of chestnut bee pollen on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic damages in rats | en_US |
| dc.type | Article |
