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Fucoxanthin ameliorates oxidative injury and inflammation of human bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoke extract via the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway

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    • Shaolei Chen
    • Lin Zhu
    • Jun Li
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  • Published online on: December 14, 2022     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2022.11768
  • Article Number: 69
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Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a prevalent and long‑term airway disease. It has been reported that fucoxanthin (FX) exhibits anti‑inflammatory and antioxidant effects. However, the underlying mechanism of FX in COPD remains unknown. Therefore, to investigate the effect of FX on COPD, BEAS‑2B cells were treated with cigarette smoke extract (CSE). The viability of BEAS‑2B cells treated with increasing doses of FX was assessed by Cell Counting Kit‑8. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels were measured using a corresponding kit. In addition, ELISA was carried out to detect the content of TNF‑α, IL‑1β and IL‑6. Additionally, a TUNEL assay and western blot analysis were performed to assess the cell apoptosis rate. Furthermore, 2',7'‑dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate was used to measure reactive oxygen species levels, while the contents of oxidative stress‑associated indexes were determined using the corresponding kits. Bioinformatics analysis using the search tool for interactions of chemicals database predicted that peroxisome proliferator‑activated receptor γ (PPARγ) may be a target of FX. The binding capacity of FTX with PPARγ was confirmed by molecular docking. The protein expression levels of the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling‑associated factors were detected by western blot analysis. Finally, the regulatory mechanism of FX in COPD was revealed following cell treatment with the PPARγ inhibitor, T0070907. The results demonstrated that FX enhanced CSE‑induced BEAS‑2B cell viability and attenuated CSE‑induced BEAS‑2B cell inflammation and oxidative damage, possibly via triggering PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling. Pre‑treatment of BEAS‑2B cells with the PPARγ inhibitor, T0070907, could reverse the protective effects of FX on CSE‑induced BEAS‑2B cells. Overall, the present study suggested that FX could ameliorate oxidative damage as well as inflammation in CSE‑treated human bronchial epithelial in patients with COPD via modulating the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway.

Introduction

As a prevalent disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by incessant respiratory disorders as well as airflow restriction, commonly associated with airway and alveolar abnormalities (1). Dyspnea, cough and phlegm are the most frequent clinical manifestations of COPD, which usually results from constant exposure to detrimental particles or gases (2). In the majority of patients, COPD is often accompanied by other chronic diseases, which can significantly increase the incidence and mortality rate, seriously threatening human public health (3). It is widely accepted that COPD is closely associated with the abnormal reaction of airways and lung tissue to harmful gases, such as cigarette smoke or toxic particles (4). Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke often results in COPD and it has been reported that >50% of smokers eventually develop the disease (5). Therefore, smoking cessation either at home or in a hospital setting is of significant importance for preventing the development of COPD.

As one of the most naturally occurring carotenoids, fucoxanthin (FX), chiefly found in sea zones (brown algae algae) and microalgae (diatoms), serves a critical role in alga photosynthesis (6). It has been reported that FX has several biological properties, since it can protect against oxidative stress, tumors, bacteria, viruses, obesity and neuron injury, with minimal toxicity and side effects (7). At present, FX can be used as a weight loss health care product (8). Clinically, as a drug, FX can be used in the treatment of skin cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer and other cancers (9). A previous study showed that FX promoted lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) via inhibiting Toll-like receptor 4/major myeloid differentiation response gene 88 signaling (10). FX was also demonstrated to inhibit fibrogenesis to alleviate bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (11). Another study in asthmatic mice revealed that FX improved oxidative stress and airway inflammation in tracheal epithelial cells (12). Additionally, the antitumor activity of FX has been previously reported in lung cancer (13). However, the effects of FX on COPD have not been previously investigated.

A previous study demonstrated that rosiglitazone inhibited the polarization of M1 macrophages via triggering peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and retinoid X receptor-α, thereby improving cigarette smoke-induced airway inflammation (14). Additionally, another study revealed that erythromycin exhibited suppressive effects on cigarette smoke-induced inflammation via triggering the PPARγ/NF-κB signaling pathway in macrophages (15). It was therefore hypothesized that PPARγ may be a promising target in terms of pathophysiology and pharmacology for the improvement of COPD. PPARγ activation possibly results in NF-κB-dependent, CSE-induced and chemokine-modulated inflammatory responses (16). Bioinformatics analysis using the search tool for interactions of chemicals (STITCH) database predicted that PPARγ could be a target of FX. In addition, it has been shown that FX regulates the expression of PPARγ in 3T3-L1 cells and inhibits the uptake of glucose and mature adipocytes (17). Moreover, FX was revealed to inhibit proinflammatory cytokines by regulating NF-κB and NLRP3 inflammasome activation (18). Thus, it was hypothesized that FX may regulate COPD via targeting the PPARγ/NF-κB signaling pathway.

Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of FX in oxidative injury and inflammation in cigarette smoke-induced human bronchial epithelial cells of patients with COPD, as well as its underlying mechanism.

Materials and methods

Preparation of aqueous cigarette smoke extract (CSE)

Firstly, three cigarettes from commercial Da Qianmen cigarettes (containing 2.5 mg of nicotine and 12 mg of tar per cigarette) were burned and the smoke was then collected in a container supplemented with 10 ml PBS using a vacuum pump. The pH of 100% CSE solution was adjusted to 7.4, followed by filtering through a 0.22-µm sterile filter. Prior to use, the well-prepared 100% CSE was diluted in RPMI 1640 medium (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) supplemented without FBS (19). Prior to treatment with FX, GSE-exposed cells were co-treated with 10 µM PPARγ inhibitor, T0070907 (Beijing BioLab Technology Co., Ltd.).

Cell culture

Human bronchial BEAS-2B cells (cat. no. BS-C1281173; Shanghai Binsui Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) were cultured in DMEM with 10% FBS (both from Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). BEAS-2B cells were cultured in medium supplemented with 1, 2 or 5% CSE for 24 h. Additionally, BEAS-2B cells were pre-treated with 5, 10, 20 and 40 µM FX followed by treatment with 5% CSE (10). FX concentrations of 0, 5, 10, 20 and 40 µM were used at first, and Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK8) was used to detect cell viability. It was determined that a concentration of 40 µM FX damaged the cells, thus concentrations of 0, 5, 10 and 20 µM FX were selected for the experiments.

CCK-8 assay

Cells were seeded into 96-well culture plates at a density of 1x104 cells/well and were then treated as aforementioned. Subsequently, the cells were incubated with CCK-8 solution (Millipore Sigma) at 37˚C for 3 h and the absorbance at 450 nm was decided using a microplate reader (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.).

ELISA

The levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α (cat. no. H052-1), interleukin (IL)-1β (cat. no. H002) and IL-6 cat. no. (H007-1-1) in culture supernatants were measured using the corresponding ELISA kits. Briefly, 100 µl cell supernatant was supplemented into each well and ELISA was carried out according to the manufacturer's instructions. Additionally, a lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; cat. no. A020-2-2) assay was used to detect LDH levels according to the manufacturer's instructions. All kits were purchased from Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute.

TUNEL assay

BEAS-2B cells (2x104 cells/well) were seeded into 6-well plates and were then treated as aforementioned. Subsequently, the cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde at 37˚C for 15 min followed by the cultivation with TUNEL solution for 1 h at 37˚C. The cells were then stained with 3,3-diaminobenzidine (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) for 10 min at room temperature according to the manufacturer's protocol. Cell nuclei were stained with 0.1 µg/ml DAPI for 5 min at room temperature and nuclear DNA fragmentation was assessed using the DeadEnd™ Fluorometric TUNEL system (Promega Corporation). Finally, the cells were observed in five randomly selected fields under an Olympus IX71 fluorescence microscope (Olympus Corporation). TUNEL-positive cells and total cells were analyzed using ImageJ 1.8.0 software (National Institutes of Health).

Western blot analysis

Total proteins were extracted from BEAS-2B cells following treatment with RIPA lysis buffer (Shanghai Absin Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) on ice. The cells were centrifuged at 16,000 x g for 10 min at 4˚C, and the supernatant was collected for western blotting. A bicinchoninic acid protein assay kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) was used to detect the protein concentrations. Subsequently, protein extracts (30 µg) were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE and were then transferred onto PVDF membranes (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA). Following the block with 5% non-fat milk for 60 min at room temperature, PVDF membranes were incubated with primary antibodies Bcl-2 (1:1,000; product code ab32124), Bax (1:1,000; product code ab32503), PPARγ (1:1,000; product code ab272718), phosphorylated (p)-NF-κB p65 (1:1,000; product code ab32536), NF-κB p65 (1:1,000; product code ab207297) or GAPDH (1:1,000; product code ab9485) at 4˚C overnight. Subsequently, the membranes were cultivated with goat anti-rabbit IgG H&L (HRP) preadsorbed antibody (1:5,000; product code ab7090; all from Abcam) at room temperature for 1 h. An ECL system (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology) was used to develop the membranes and blots were analyzed using ImageJ 1.8.0 (National Institutes of Health).

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) detection

Briefly, to measure ROS levels, cells (1x104 cells/well) seeded into a 96-well plate were treated with 2,7-dichlorodi-hydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology) solution (dilution, 1:1,000) at a concentration of 2 µM at 37˚C for 20 min. ROS content was assessed by measuring the fluorescence intensity of each well at a wavelength of 488 and 525 nm, separately, using a microplate reader. The control group served as the baseline absorbance value to calculate the average fluorescence intensity of each group.

Detection of malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px)

The activities of SOD (cat. no. A001-3-1; WST-1 method), MDA (cat. no. A003-1-1; colorimetric method) and GSH-Px (cat. no. A005-1-2; colorimetric method) were assessed using the corresponding kits according to the manufacturer's protocol (Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute) by measuring the absorbance at 450, 532 and 412 nm, respectively, with a microplate reader.

Molecular docking

ChemDraw software 21 (ChemDraw; PerkinElmerk, Inc.) was used to visualize the structure of FX, which was subsequently hydrogenated using OpenBabel (v2.2.1) software and converted into a mol2 format file (20). The structure of PPARγ was downloaded from the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) webpage (https://www.rcsb.org/). The removal of surplus water molecules, the deletion of irrelevant small ligands originally carried and protein structure analysis were performed by opening the PDB file in PyMOL (v2.2.0) software (21). Since the predicted protein structure carried a ligand, this ligand was removed and the original ligand position was considered as the docking site. Following analysis in AutoDock (v4.2), the specific docking energy values were displayed (22). The results were analyzed using Protein-Ligand Interaction Profiler (https://plip-tool.biotec.tu-dresden.de/plip-web) database.

Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)

The total RNA that was isolated with a RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen China Co., Ltd) was then reversely transcribed into cDNA using M-MLV RTase and random primer (GeneCopoeia, Inc.). qPCR was performed on an ABI PRISM 7900HT (Applied Biosystems; Life Technologies; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) using SYBR Premix Ex Taq™ (Takara Bio, Inc.) or Taqman probes (Applied Biosystems; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The thermocycling conditions were as follows: 95˚C for 5 min, followed by 40 cycles at 94˚C for 15 sec, 60˚C for 20 sec and 72˚C for 40 sec. Relative expression levels were calculated using 2-ΔΔCq method (23). The primers were as follows: PPARγ forward, 5'-CCAGAAGCCTGCATTTCTGC-3' and reverse, 5'-CACGGAGCTGATCCCAAAGT-3'; GAPDH forward, 5'-AATGGGCAGCCGTTAGGAAA-3' and reverse, 5'-GCGCCCAATACGACCAAATC-3'.

Database

The search tool for interactions of chemicals (STITCH) database was used to predict the targets of FX (http://stitch.embl.de/) .

Statistical analysis

All data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corp.). All results are expressed as the mean ± SD. The differences between multiple groups were compared using one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test with GraphPad Prism 5 software (GraphPad Software, Inc.). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. All experiments were repeated at least three times.

Results

FX enhances CSE-induced BEAS-2B cell activity

Following exposure of BEAS-2B cells to 1, 2 or 5% CSE, cell viability was evaluated. The results of the CCK-8 assay demonstrated that cell viability of BEAS-2B cells was markedly and gradually decreased with the increasing concentrations of CSE (Fig. 1A). A concentration of 5% CSE was selected for the follow-up experiments. Subsequently, BEAS-2B cells were induced with 5, 10, 20 or 40 µM FX, and the results demonstrated that FX at concentrations of 5, 10 and 20 µM did not affect the cell viability of BEAS-2B cells, and FX at a concentration of 40 µM significantly decreased cell viability (Fig. 1B). To avoid FX-induced cell injury, concentrations of 5, 10 and 20 µM FX were selected for the subsequent experiments. Cells were then divided into the following five groups: The control group; the CSE group; the CSE + 5 µM FX group; the CSE + 10 µM FX group; and the CSE + 20 µM FX group. The results of the CCK-8 assay demonstrated that the CSE-induced decrease of cell viability was reversed with increasing concentrations of FX (Fig. 1C). Additionally, LDH levels were assessed. The results revealed that LDH production was significantly enhanced in the CSE group compared with the control group. However, compared with the CSE group, the levels of LDH were significantly reduced in the CSE + FX groups (Fig. 1D).

FX attenuates CSE-induced inflammation and oxidative damage in BEAS-2B cells

The results of ELISA demonstrated that the levels of TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-6 were significantly increased in the CSE group compared with the control group. However, the levels of the aforementioned cytokines were decreased with increasing concentrations of FX in the CSE + FX groups compared with the CSE group (Fig. 2). TUNEL assay and western blot analysis revealed that compared with the control group, cell apoptosis was evidently enhanced in the CSE group, accompanied by Bcl-2 downregulation and Bax upregulation. Compared with the CSE group, cell apoptosis was decreased in the CSE + FX groups in a dose-dependent manner, as verified by the increased Bcl-2 expression and decreased Bax expression (Fig. 3A-C). Additionally, ROS levels were increased following cell induction with CSE compared with the control group. However, ROS production was dose-dependently reduced in CSE-induced cells after cell exposure to FX (Fig. 3D). Furthermore, MDA activity was significantly elevated, while that of SOD and GSH-Px was attenuated in the CSE-induced cells. Following cell treatment with increasing concentrations of FX, MDA activity was dose-dependently reduced, while SOD and GSH-Px activities were dose-dependently enhanced in the CSE-induced cells (Fig. 3D).

FX regulates PPARγ/NF-κB signaling

Bioinformatics analysis using the STITCH database predicted that PPARγ could be a target of FX (Fig. 4A). The three-dimensional structure of PPARγ protein was obtained from PDB database (PDB ID: 1KNU) and the Autodock (version 4.2) database was used for molecular docking (Fig. 4B). The analysis indicated that FX could regulate PPARγ expression. In addition, western blot and RT-qPCR analyses showed that PPARγ was downregulated and p-NF-κB p65 was upregulated following cell treatment with CSE. However, compared with the CSE group, the expression levels of PPARγ were gradually increased, while those of p-NF-κB p65 were gradually reduced in the CSE + FX groups, in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 4C and D).

Pretreatment with the PPARγ inhibitor, T0070907, reverses the protective effects of FX on CSE-induced BEAS-2B cells

Subsequent assays were carried out using 20 µM FX. Cells were divided into the following four groups: The control group; the CSE group; the CSE + FX group; and the CSE + FX + T0070907 group. Cells in the CSE + FX + T0070907 group were co-treated with a PPARγ inhibitor, namely T0070907. The results revealed that the levels of inflammatory cytokines were significantly increased in the CSE + FX + T0070907 group compared with the CSE + FX group (Fig. 5A-C). TUNEL assay and western blot analysis revealed that compared with the CSE + FX group, cell apoptosis was enhanced in the CSE + FX + T0070907 group, as indicated by Bcl-2 downregulation and Bax upregulation (Fig. 5D-G). In addition, DCFH-DA assay showed that T0070907 significantly reversed the effects of FX on ROS, MDA, SOD and GSH-Px levels in CSE-induced BEAS-2B cells (Fig. 5H-K).

Discussion

Epidemiological and genetic risk factors for COPD include long-term smoking, persistent exposure to air pollution, respiratory infections, inhalation of biofuel smoke and occupational dust (24). Among them, smoking is a pivotal risk factor, significantly contributing to the development of COPD, thus increasing the rate of impaired lung function (25,26). This could mainly be due to the harmful gases and particulate matter produced by tobacco, causing lung inflammation and oxidative stress response. In turn, lung inflammation and oxidative stress response could further lead to lung tissue injury and small airway fibrosis, eventually resulting in irreversible airflow restriction and various respiratory symptoms in individuals (27). In addition, persistent chronic inflammation induces the recurrence of vascular wall damage and repair processes, thus leading to airway remodeling, which is the primary cause of irreversible COPD progression (28). In the present study, human bronchial BEAS-2B cells were induced with CSE, thus resulting in oxidative damage and inflammatory response, simulating COPD in vitro. Moreover, the model of CSE-induced human bronchial epithelial cells is a recognized COPD model (14,15,19) When patients with COPD are affected by air pollutants and other inducements, the epithelial cells are stimulated to release oxidative stress-related factors SOD, GSH-Px, MDA, which lead to the accumulation of inflammation-related factors TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-6 in the airway giving rise to cell damage, and thus causing the acute exacerbation of COPD (29). Therefore, oxidative stress and inflammatory response were detected to be activated after CSE induction in the experiments of the present study.

FX, a natural carotenoid, is extensively found in various algae, marine phytoplankton and aquatic shellfish (7). This compound can protect against inflammation, obesity, diabetes and cancer (6). It has been also reported that FX exhibits particular therapeutic effects on airway inflammatory or traumatic diseases. Therefore, a study demonstrated that FX exerted anti-inflammatory and antiapoptotic effects on lung cancer in benzo(A) pyrene-induced mice (30). In asthma, FX could effectively diminish ROS secretion and protect against oxidative stress and inflammation in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (31). Another study suggested that FX could attenuate LPS-induced ALI via suppressing RhoA activation together with the NF-κB pathway (32). However, the therapeutic effect of FX on COPD and its underlying mechanism have not been previously reported. The results of the present study demonstrated that FX significantly inhibited CSE-induced BEAS-2B cell inflammation and oxidative damage, thus supporting its effect on improving COPD.

Subsequently, the mechanism underlying the effect of FX on improving COPD was investigated. Analysis in the STITCH database predicted that PPARγ could be a target of FX. Furthermore, the three-dimensional structure of PPARγ was obtained from the PDB database. Autodock (version 4.2) database was used for molecular docking. A previous study on type 2 diabetic mice revealed that FX could distinctly increase PPARγ expression in adipose tissue, thus improving the metabolism of sugar and fat (33). Herein, FX promoted the expression of PPARγ and downregulated p-NF-κB p65. It was therefore hypothesized that PPARγ may be a promising target in terms of pathophysiology and pharmacology for improving COPD. PPARγ activation could possibly result in NF-κB-dependent, GSE-induced and chemokine-mediated regulation of inflammatory responses (16). The expression levels of PPARγ were reduced in primary human bronchial cells of patients with COPD compared with those in healthy smokers (34). Additionally, another study demonstrated that CSE-induced airway remodeling could be significantly improved via activating the PPARγ/TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway (35). Curcumin suppressed cigarette-induced inflammation via modulating the PPARγ/NF-κB signaling pathway, while PPARγ inhibitor T0070907 inhibited this protective effect (36). Furthermore, a previous study revealed that PPARγ inhibitor T0070907 downregulated the tight junction barrier function of human nasal epithelial cells through the PKC signaling pathway (37). FX was also demonstrated to downregulate the expression of PPARγ and inhibit adipogenesis in adipocytes, thereby exerting an anti-obesity effect (38). Therefore, it was hypothesized that FX may serve an important regulatory role in improving COPD via regulating the PPARγ/NF-κB signaling pathway. Herein, the protective effects of FX on CSE-induced cells were reversed following cell treatment with the PPARγ inhibitor, T0070907.

FX was revealed to inhibit the inflammatory response by suppressing the activation of NF-κB and MAPKs in lipopolysaccharide-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages (39). FX was also demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory activity in high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice and an antioxidant function in PC12 cells (40). FX suppressed lipid accumulation and ROS production during differentiation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (41). FX and its metabolite, fucoxanthinol, suppressed adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells (42). However, the regulation of FX on PPARγ was not involved, and the regulation of FX on PPARγ in COPD has not been reported to date, to the best of our knowledge, which is also the novelty of the present study.

The present study has certain limitations. Conclusions were drawn from cell experiments only, and have yet to be verified in animal experiments or clinical samples. In vivo experiments will be performed in future studies. In the present study, whether PPARγ protein is a post-transcriptional regulator or stable protein was not determined, and to establish this, further experiments are required in the future. Moreover, the experiments were only carried out in one cell line, BEAS-2B cells, which is also a limitation of the present study.

In conclusion, the present study indicated that FX ameliorated oxidative damage and inflammation in CSE-induced human bronchial epithelial cells in patients with COPD via modulating the PPARγ/NF-κB signaling pathway.

Acknowledgements

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Funding

Funding: No funding was received.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

SC and LZ conceived and designed the study. SC, JL and LZ performed the experiments. JL and LZ were major contributors to writing the manuscript. SC and LZ collected the clinical data and analyzed the data. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. SC, LZ and JL confirm the authenticity of all the raw data.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Chen S, Zhu L and Li J: Fucoxanthin ameliorates oxidative injury and inflammation of human bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoke extract via the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway. Exp Ther Med 25: 69, 2023.
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Chen, S., Zhu, L., & Li, J. (2023). Fucoxanthin ameliorates oxidative injury and inflammation of human bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoke extract via the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 25, 69. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2022.11768
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Chen, S., Zhu, L., Li, J."Fucoxanthin ameliorates oxidative injury and inflammation of human bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoke extract via the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 25.1 (2023): 69.
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Chen, S., Zhu, L., Li, J."Fucoxanthin ameliorates oxidative injury and inflammation of human bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoke extract via the PPARγ/NF‑κB signaling pathway". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 25, no. 1 (2023): 69. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2022.11768