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- Title
Scorpion Venom Peptides Accelerate Hematopoietic Recovery of Myelosuppression in Irradiated Mice.
- Authors
Weihua Dong; Lina Wang; Tianhan Kong; Yanjie He
- Abstract
Sublethally irradiated mice were administered with scorpion venom peptides (SVP) or with PBS in the saline control group, 3 days before and 7 consecutive days after irradiation. Hematopoietic recovery was assessed by bone marrow (BM) cell proliferation index (PI) and colony forming unit-granulocyte/macrophage (CFU-GM), spleen weight index (SI) and thymus weight index (TI), colony-forming unit-spleen (CFU-S) and peripheral leukocyte counts. In addition, IL-1α and SCF levels in BM, IL-6 and GM-CSF levels in serum were determined. In SVP treated groups, PI was improved dramatically versus control mice on day 22 after irradiation. The number of CFU-GM colonies in all SVP treated groups was higher than the control groups. The difference of the number of CFU-GM colonies between SVPV group (0.2 mg/kg) and the control was significant on day 5 and 10 after irradiation (p < 0.05). SVPIV (0.2 mg/kg) could activate the CFU-S formation on day 10 after irradiation. SI was in peak value on day 15 after irradiation in all groups and the SI value of SVPV treated group was higher than control group (p < 0.05). Our results suggest that SVP may be valuable natural peptides that relieve myelosuppression caused by radiation. The effect of SVP accelerating the hematopoietic recovery was potentially through a mechanism of stimulating the release of cytokines.
- Subjects
SCORPION venom; PEPTIDES; IRRADIATION; MICE; HEMATOPOIESIS
- Publication
American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 2009, Vol 37, Issue 4, p701
- ISSN
0192-415X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0192415X0900717X