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Article Navigation >  Journal of Clinical Hepatology  > 2024  >  40(5): 952-960

Effect of NOD‑like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 knockdown on a mouse model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis induced by high-fat high-carbohydrate diet

DOI: 10.12449/JCH240514
  • 1a.

    Institute of Liver Diseases, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shanghai 201203，China

  • 1b.

    Experimental Center for Science and Technology,Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine，Shanghai 201203，China

  • 2.

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Clinical Medicine，Shanghai 201203，China

  • 3.

    Key Laboratory of Liver and Kidney Diseases,Ministry of Education，Shanghai 201203，China

  • 4.

    Baoshan District Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine，Shanghai 201900，China

Research funding:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (82174040);

The Excellent Doctoral Projects in Key Fields of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2-089);

District level Medical and Health Key Project of Shanghai Baoshan District Science (21-E-63)

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  • Corresponding author: FENG Qin， fengqin@shutcm.edu.cn （ORCID：0000-0002-4641-1636）
  • Received Date: 2023-08-15
  • Accepted Date: 2023-08-31
  • Published Date: 2024-05-25
    Abstract
  •   Objective  To investigate the effect of NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 （NLRP3） knockdown on a mouse model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis （NASH） induced by high-fat high-carbohydrate （HFHC） diet.  Methods  A total of 44 mice were randomly divided into normal diet group （CON group） with 20 mice and HFHC group with 24 mice. At the end of week 14 of modeling， 4 mice were randomly selected from the HFHC group for the pre-experiment of adeno-associated virus （AAV） by tail vein injection， and NLRP3 knockdown was verified after 4 weeks. After NLRP3 knockdown was verified at the end of week 18， the remaining 40 mice were given a single tail vein injection of AAV， and then they were divided into CON+NLRP3 knockdown negative control group （CON+NLRP3-NC group）， CON+NLRP3 knockdown group （CON+NLRP3-KD group）， HFHC+NLRP3-NC group， and HFHC+NLRP3-KD group， with 10 mice in each group. At the end of week 24， the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome was observed； related indicators were measured， including body weight， liver weight， liver index， and glucose metabolism （fasting blood glucose， fasting insulin， and Homeostasis Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance ［HOMA-IR］ index）； the indicators of liver lipid content （liver triglyceride ［TG］ and oil red O staining）， liver inflammation （serum alanine aminotransferase ［ALT］ activity， HE staining， and inflammation-related genes）， and liver fibrosis （Sirius Red staining and fibrosis-related genes） were measured. A one-way analysis of variance was used for comparison of continuous data between multiple groups， and the least significant difference t-test was used for further comparison between two groups.  Results  Compared with the CON+NLRP3-NC group based on the results of Western Blot， the HFHC+NLRP3-NC group had significant increases in the protein expression levels of NLRP3， pro-Caspase1， Caspase1， ASC， and IL-1β， while the HFHC+NLRP3-KD group had significant reductions in these levels （all P<0.05）. The HFHC+NLRP3-NC group showed varying degrees of increase in body weight， liver weight， liver index， and glucose metabolism indicators， while the HFHC+NLRP3-KD group showed significant improvements in these indicators （all P<0.05）. As for hepatic fat deposition， compared with the CON+NLRP3-NC group， the HFHC+NLRP3-NC group had a significant increase in liver TG， with a large number of red lipid droplets shown by oil red O staining， and the HFHC+NLRP3-KD group had significant reductions in liver TG and the number of lipid droplets in the liver （all P<0.01）. In terms of liver inflammation， compared with the CON+NLRP3-NC group， the HFHC+NLRP3-NC group had significant increases in serum ALT， NAFLD activity score， and inflammation-related genes， while the HFHC+NLRP3-KD group had significant reductions in these indicators （all P<0.01）. As for liver fibrosis， compared with the CON+NLRP3-NC group， the HFHC+NLRP3-NC group had significant increases in collagen fiber area and fibrosis-related genes， and the HFHC+NLRP3-KD group had significant reductions in fibrosis-related genes （all P<0.05） and a tendency of reduction in collagen fiber area （P>0.05）.  Conclusion  NLRP3 knockdown can significantly improve hepatic fat deposition and inflammation in a mouse model of HFHC-induced NASH.

     

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