- Title
- Phenotype-specific therapeutic effect of Rhodiola wallichiana var. cholaensis combined with dexamethasone on experimental murine asthma and its comprehensive pharmacological mechanism
- Creator
- Pang, Zhiqiang; Ran, Nan; Yuan, Yuze; Wang, Cuizhu; Wang, Guoqiang; Lin, Hongqiang; Hsu, Alan Chen-Yu; Liu, Jinping; Wang, Fang
- Relation
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences Vol. 20, Issue 17, no. 4216
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20174216
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The heterogeneity of asthma involves complex pathogenesis leading to confusion regarding the choice of therapeutic strategy. In the clinic, asthma is commonly classified as having either eosinophilic asthma (EA) or non-eosinophilic asthma (NEA) phenotypes. Microbiota colonizing in airways has been demonstrated to induce distinct phenotypes of asthma and the resistance to steroids. Rhodiola wallichiana var. cholaensis (RWC) has the potential to alleviate asthmatic inflammation according to recent studies, but its pharmacological mechanisms remain unclarified. In our study, murine asthmatic phenotypes were established and treated with RWC and/or dexamethasone (DEX). Combined treatment with RWC and DEX could improve spirometry and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in asthmatic phenotypes, alleviate steroid resistance in NEA, and reduce the inflammatory infiltration of the both phenotypes. The combined treatment increased Th1, regulated the imbalance of Th2/Th1, and decreased the related cytokines in EA. As for NEA, the combined treatment reduced Th17 and promoted the accumulation of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in lung. A microbiome study based on 16S rDNA sequencing technique revealed the significantly changed structure of the lower airway microbiota after combined treatment in NEA, with 4 distinct genera and 2 species identified. OPLS-DA models of metabolomics analysis based on UPLC-Q/TOF-MS technique identified 34 differentiated metabolites and 8 perturbed metabolic pathways. A joint multiomics study predicted that the colonized microbiota in airways might be associated with susceptibility of asthma and steroid resistance, which involved systematic and pulmonary metabolic perturbation. In summary, the pharmacological network of RWC included the complicated interaction mechanisms of immune regulation, microbiota change, and metabolic perturbation.
- Subject
- asthma; Rhodiola wallichiana var. cholaensis; dexamethasone; phenotype; multiomics; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1456273
- Identifier
- uon:45207
- Identifier
- ISSN:1422-0067
- Rights
- © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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