title: Luteolin from Purple Perilla mitigates ROS insult particularly in primary neurons.
abstract: Increased attention has been paid to the role of oxidant/antioxidant imbalance in neurodegenerative process and pharmaceutical neuroprotective interventions. Food-derived compound luteolin possesses multitarget actions including reactive oxygen species (ROS)-scavenging activity in cultured human endothelial cells or permanent immature rat oligodendrocytes. This study aims to elucidate whether luteolin has a neuroprotective tendency toward ROS-insulted neural cells. The present results showed that luteolin, isolated from the ripe seed of Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt., markedly reversed hydrogen peroxide-induced cytotoxicity in primary culture cortical neurons but not in cultured human neuroblastoma cells. Upon the ROS-insulted primary neurons, luteolin concentration-dependently enhanced neuronal cell survival with efficacy higher than and potency similar to vitamin E. Additionally, luteolin significantly attenuated the increase in ROS production and prevented the decreases in activities of mitochondria, catalase, and glutathione in ROS-insulted primary neurons. Thus, luteolin functions by neuroprotection possibly through a rebalancing of pro-oxidant-antioxidant status. This agent points to possible interventions for preventing neurodegenerative diseases such as cerebral ischemia, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as for improving brain aging.
authors.affiliation: Cell Star Bio-Technologies, Co., Limited, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yao-Yue
authors.forename: Guo-Wei
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Li-He
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D006801:Humans; D047311:Luteolin / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents; D031343:Perilla / Q000737:chemistry*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D047311:Luteolin