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Record W1980023937 · doi:10.1080/13880200701729588

Immunostimulatory and Anti-inflammatory Polysaccharides from<i>Tripterygium wilfordii</i>.: Comparison with Organic Extracts

2008· article· en· W1980023937 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePharmaceutical Biology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNatural Compounds in Disease Treatment
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTripterygium wilfordiiCelastraceaeChemistryCytotoxicityToxicityPharmacologyPolysaccharideProinflammatory cytokineTripterygiumInflammationDownregulation and upregulationAnti-inflammatoryTraditional medicineIn vitroBiochemistryBiologyImmunologyMedicineStereochemistry

Abstract

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The organic extracts of Tripterygium wilfordii. Hook F. (Celastraceae) have been used in the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases for many years in China, although they also possess significant toxicity. These extracts are anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive in nature, suppressing lipopolyscacharide (LPS)-stimulated upregulation of NF kappa B gene expression. In the current study, an ethyl acetate (EA) extract and a crude hot water soluble polysaccharide (PS) fraction from T. wilfordii. were compared. Both fractions were effective in reducing LPS-stimulated NO accumulation in cultured RAW 267.4 macrophages in a dose-dependent manner (IC50 values of 1.7 and 32.1 μ g/mL for EA and PS, respectively). The LC50 of EA (19.8–22.3 μ g/mL) was significantly greater than that of PS, which exhibited no apparent cytotoxicity toward either macrophages or EAhy 926 endothelial cells (up to 10 mg/mL). We also showed that PS was able to stimulate NO production by untreated macrophages in a dose-dependent manner. Thus, depending on the experimental condition of cultured macrophages, a crude PS fraction of T. wilfordii. may exhibit immunostimulatory or anti-inflammatory effects. This unique property, together with its relatively low level of toxicity, supports further investigation of its role in diseases in which inflammation and immunomodulation are critical.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.122
Threshold uncertainty score0.922

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it