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In this study, we performed an in vivo study to investigate the protective effect of eckol and its possible mechanisms on the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced acute liver injury model in mice. Results revealed that eckol pre-treatment at the dose of 0.5 and 1.0 mg\/kg\/day for 7 days significantly suppressed the CCl4-induced increases of alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels in serum and meliorated morphological liver injury. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL) analysis showed that the number of positive apoptotic hepatocytes in the eckol-treated group was lower than that in the CCl4 model group. Western blotting analysis also demonstrated the enhanced expression of bcl-2 and suppressed expression of cleaved caspase-3 by eckol. The CCl4-induced oxidative stress in liver was significantly ameliorated by eckol, which was characterized by reduced malondialdehyde (MDA) formations, and enhanced superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities and glutathione (GSH) content. Moreover, the CCl4-induced elevations of pro-inflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-\u03b1, interleukin (IL)-1\u03b2 and IL-6 were markedly suppressed in the eckol-treated group. However, eckol enhanced the level of IL-10, a potent anti-inflammatory cytokine, and recruited CD11c+ dendritic cells into the liver tissues of CCl4-treated mice. These results indicated that eckol has the protective effect on CCl4-induced acute liver injury via multiple mechanisms including anti-apoptosis, anti-oxidation, anti-inflammation and immune regulation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/md16090300","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,27]],"date-time":"2018-08-27T10:56:04Z","timestamp":1535367364000},"page":"300","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Protective Effect of Eckol against Acute Hepatic Injury Induced by Carbon Tetrachloride in Mice"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Shulan","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Juan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mengya","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianxing","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1012","DOI":"10.1248\/cpb.51.1012","article-title":"A new phlorotannin from the brown alga Ecklonia stolonifera","volume":"51","author":"Kang","year":"2003","journal-title":"Chem. 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