Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2013, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 275-279.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.02.016

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Protective action of salvianolic acid B on skin photoaging in mice

Zhou Xiang-jun1, Ye Cai-guo2, Yang Guang-li3, Liu Lin-sheng4   

  1. 1 Department of Pharmacology, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan  523808, Guangdong Province, China
    2 Institute of Tumor, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan  523808, Guangdong Province, China
    3 Department of Pharmaceutical Preparations, Guangdong Food and Drug Vocational College, Guangzhou  510000, Guangdong Province, China
    4 Department of Pharmacy, Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Foshan  528000, Guangdong Province, China
  • Received:2012-05-03 Revised:2012-05-22 Online:2013-01-08 Published:2013-01-08
  • About author:Zhou Xiang-jun★, Master, Experimentalist, Department of Pharmacology, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong Province, China cytomie@126.com
  • Supported by:

    Supported by: the Young Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Medical University, No. XQ0805

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Chinese medicine and its extract can improve skin structure, improve the activity of antioxidant enzymes, inhibit high expression of matrix metalloproteinase, and enhance the immune defense function of the skin, which plays a preventive effect against skin photoaging.
OBJECTIVE: To observe the protective effect of salvianolic acid B on skin photoaging in mice.
METHODS: Mouse skin cells were cultured and irradiated in vitro to prepare UV damage models, which were treated with different doses of salvianolic acid B. MTT and single cell electrophoresis were performed to observe the severity of skin injury and protective role of salvianolic acid B on cell injury. Skin photoaging models were prepared through UV irradiation in mice, and then model mice were intragastrically administrated with different doses of salvianolic acid B. Hydroxyproline and superoxide dismutase contents were determined to evaluate whether salvianolic acid B can inhibit skin photoaging.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: UV irradiation could increase malondialdehyde content in the skin, decrease hydroxyproline content as well as superoxide dismutase and glutathione oxidase activity. Salvianolic acid B could effectively protect the cells from UV damage, remarkably reduce malondialdehyde content in the skin, increase hydroxyproline, superoxide dismutase and glutathione oxidase contents, playing an inhibitory effect on skin photoaging. These findings indicate that salvianolic acid B has a protective effect on skin photoaging in mice.

Key words: tissue construction, skin tissue construction, salvianolic acid B, skin, photoaging, hydroxyproline, superoxide dismutase, malondialdehyde, provincial grants-supported paper

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