KR20110124744A - Composition for improving inflammatory bowel disease - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A composition containing aloin, aloesin, or aloegel is provided to lower myeloperoxidase activity and to suppress the expression of TNF-alpha and IL-beta. CONSTITUTION: A composition for treating inflammatory bowel diseases contains aloe gel as an active ingredient. The ingredient is contained in 0.001-15 wt% based on total weight. The composition is a pharmaceutical composition or food composition. The food composition is beverage. The pharmaceutical composition contains pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and excipient. The pharmaceutical composition is manufactured in the form of an oral formulation, parenteral formulation, and topical formulation.

Description

Composition for Improving Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The present invention relates to an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, and more particularly, to an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition using aloe, aloesin or aloe gel extract.

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are chronic inflammatory diseases of the small intestine and colon mucosa. The causes are bacterial infections, autoimmune abnormalities, etc., but the cause is not known to date (N. Engl. J. Med. (2002) 347: 417-29). Inflammatory bowel disease, in addition to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, broadly includes celiac disease, intestinal Behcet's disease and ischemic enteritis.

Inflammatory bowel disease all exhibits clinical symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea (bloody stools), sometimes accompanied by autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.

Inflammatory bowel disease is more common in both adolescents and adults, and is currently one of chronic incurable diseases that has to be suffered for life without the underlying treatment.

Treatment for inflammatory bowel disease includes immunosuppressants such as salazosulfapyridine, 5-aminosalicylic acid, prednisolone (corticosteroid), and azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine. Mainly used. However, there are patients who are resistant to this treatment and there are problems of side effects. Recently, anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibodies have been developed as therapeutic agents that inhibit TNF-α activity and rapidly improve intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease (Gastroenterology (1995) 109: 129-35; N. Engl. J. Med. (1997) 337: 1029-35), side effects such as malignant tumors are known to occur frequently (Gastroenterology (1999) 117: 1433-37; N. Engl. J. Med. ( 2001) 345: 1098-104).

Thus, the substance of therapeutic activity of inflammatory bowel disease needs to be studied continuously.

The present invention discloses aloe derived materials useful for the treatment of inflammatory colitis.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an inflammatory bowel disease improving agent.

Specific and other objects of the present invention will be presented below.

We compared the DSS-only group (positive control group) when feeding aloe, aloesin or aloe gel with feed to experimental animals induced colitis with sodium dextran sulfate (abbreviated as “DSS”). Thus, no deletion of colon mucosal tissue was observed, and the activity of myeloperoxidase (hereinafter abbreviated as "MPO") decreased, and leukotriene B4 in plasma (hereinafter abbreviated as "LTB4"), TNF-α And it was confirmed that the PGE ₂ concentration is lowered. In addition, it was confirmed that expression of TNF-α and IL-β is suppressed at the gene level. The experimental animal in which colitis is induced by dextran sodium sulfate (hereinafter abbreviated as “DSS”) is a research model that is widely used for the development of a therapeutic agent for inflammatory colitis, and the MPO is an index indicating the degree of inflammation in an intestinal injury animal model. Enzyme used (Singh VP et al., Indian J. Exp. Biol. 2004; 42 (7): 667-73), LTB4, TNF-α, PGE ₂ , IL-β, etc. are known as representative inflammatory mediators have.

The present invention has been completed based on the experimental results, the inflammatory bowel disease improving composition of the present invention is characterized in that it comprises aloe, aloesin or aloe gel as an active ingredient.

In the present specification, the term "inflammatory bowel disease" is meant to include all bowel diseases mediated by inflammation, and includes celiac disease, enteric Behcet's disease, and ischemic enteritis in addition to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Also in the present specification, the "aloe gel" is Aloe ( Aloe barbadensis ) means a gel fillet located in the center of the aloe leaf obtained from the aloe leaf and / or latex located between the gel fillet and the skin (rind), the product is hydrolyzed or hydrolyzed by cellulase or the like decolorization, filtration, It is meant to include sterile and / or stabilized. Aloe gel may be used in a liquid or powdered form, or a mixture of liquid gel and powdered gel may be used in an appropriate ratio. These aloe gels are prepared by using the methods disclosed in US Pat. No. 3,892,853, US Pat. No. 4,465,629, WO 1999/19505, and other methods known in the art, or are commercially available. It is also possible to purchase and use a high-purity processed product.

In addition, in the present specification, the "active ingredient" alone means a component that can exhibit the desired activity or itself can exhibit activity with a carrier that is not active.

In addition, the "improvement" is meant herein, including the prevention of inflammatory bowel disease, including the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, including the inhibition and delay of the development of inflammatory bowel disease.

Terms not specifically defined herein follow the Korean dictionary meaning or the meaning generally accepted in the art.

Inflammatory bowel disease improving composition of the present invention may include the active ingredient in any amount (effective amount) as long as it can exhibit the improvement activity of inflammatory bowel disease according to the use, formulation, formulation purposes, etc., the conventional effective amount is It will be determined in the range of 0.001% to 15% by weight based on weight. The term "effective amount" as used herein refers to the amount of an active ingredient in a mammal, preferably a human subject, which can induce improvement, treatment, or suppression / delay of the development of such pathological symptoms. Such effective amounts can be determined experimentally within the range of ordinary skill in the art.

Subjects to which the inflammatory bowel disease enhancer composition of the present invention can be applied (prescribed) are mammals and humans, particularly humans.

The composition of the present invention can be used as a pharmaceutical composition in a specific embodiment.

The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention includes oral formulations (tablets, suspensions, granules, emulsions, capsules, syrups, etc.), parenteral formulations (sterilized), including pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, excipients, etc., in addition to the active ingredients thereof. Aqueous or oily suspensions for injection), topical formulations (solutions, creams, ointments, gels, lotions, patches) and the like.

As used herein, "pharmaceutically acceptable" means that the subject of application (prescription) does not have more toxicity (adequately lower toxicity) than is applicable, without inhibiting the activity of the active ingredient.

Examples of pharmaceutically acceptable carriers include lactose, glucose, sucrose, starch (such as corn starch, potato starch, etc.), cellulose, derivatives thereof (such as sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, ethylcellulose, etc.), malt, gelatin, talc, Solid lubricants (such as stearic acid, magnesium stearate, etc.), calcium sulfate, vegetable oils (such as peanut oil, cottonseed oil, sesame oil, olive oil, etc.), polyols (such as propylene glycol, glycerin, etc.), alginic acid, emulsifiers (such as TWEENS), wetting agents (Such as sodium lauryl sulfate), colorants, flavors, stabilizers, antioxidants, preservatives, water, saline, phosphate buffer solutions, and the like. The carrier may be selected from one or more of suitable pharmaceutical formulations according to the formulation of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention.

Excipients may be selected and used according to the formulation of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention, for example, when the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is prepared with an aqueous suspending agent, suitable excipients are sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydropropylmethylcellulose And suspending agents and dispersing agents such as sodium alginate and polyvinylpyrrolidone. Suitable excipients when prepared from injection solutions include Ringer's solution, isotonic sodium chloride, and the like.

The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may be administered orally or parenterally.

The daily dose of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is usually 0.001 to 150 mg / kg body weight, and may be administered once or several times. However, since the dosage of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is determined in view of various related factors such as the route of administration, the age, sex, weight of the patient, the severity of the patient and the like, the dosage may limit the scope of the present invention in any aspect. It should not be understood as.

Inflammatory bowel disease improving composition of the present invention can be regarded as a food composition in another specific embodiment.

The food composition of the present invention may be prepared as a dietary supplement, a special nutritional supplement, a functional beverage, and the like.

The food composition of the present invention may include sweeteners, flavoring agents, bioactive ingredients, minerals, etc. in addition to the active ingredients.

Sweeteners may be used in amounts that give the food a suitable sweet taste, and may be natural or synthetic. Preferably, natural sweeteners are used. Examples of natural sweeteners include sugar sweeteners such as corn syrup solids, honey, sucrose, fructose, lactose and maltose.

Flavoring agents can be used to enhance the taste or aroma, both natural and synthetic. Preferably, a natural one is used. When using natural ones, the purpose of nutritional fortification can be performed in addition to the flavor. The natural flavor may be obtained from apples, lemons, citrus fruits, grapes, strawberries, peaches, and the like, or may be obtained from green tea leaves, round leaves, jujube leaves, cinnamon, chrysanthemum leaves, jasmine and the like. In addition, ginseng (red ginseng), bamboo shoots, ginkgo and the like can be used. The natural flavoring agent may be a liquid concentrate or a solid form of extract. In some cases, synthetic flavoring agents may be used, and synthetic flavoring agents may be used in the form of esters, alcohols, aldehydes, terpenes and the like.

As the physiologically active substance, catechins such as catechin, epicatechin, gallocatechin, epigallocatechin, vitamins such as retinol, ascorbic acid, tocopherol, calciferol, thiamine, riboflavin, and the like can be used.

As minerals, calcium, magnesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluoride, germanium, iodine, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, silicon, sodium, sulfur, vanadium, zinc and the like can be used.

In addition, the food composition of the present invention may contain a preservative, an emulsifier, an acidulant, a thickener, and the like, in addition to the sweetener.

Such preservatives, emulsifiers and the like are preferably added and used in very small amounts as long as the use to which they are added can be achieved. Numerically, " extreme amount " means in the range of 0.0005% by weight to about 0.5% by weight based on the total weight of the food composition.

Examples of preservatives that can be used include sodium sorbate, sodium sorbate, potassium sorbate, calcium benzoate, sodium benzoate, potassium benzoate, EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid), and the like.

Emulsifiers that can be used include acacia gum, carboxymethylcellulose, xanthan gum, pectin and the like.

Acidulants that may be used include lead acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, phosphoric acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, ascorbic acid, acetic acid and the like. Such acidulant may be added so that the food composition is at an appropriate acidity for the purpose of inhibiting the growth of microorganisms in addition to the purpose of enhancing taste.

Thickeners that can be used include suspending implements, sedimenters, gel formers, swelling agents and the like.

In addition, the herbal composition of the present invention may be added to improve the taste and palatability and to have other functionalities (such as rheumatoid arthritis), which may be added as a medicinal herb extract, soybean extract, antler extract, antler extract, safflower extract , Tosa extract, sage goji extract, tortoiseshell extract, cornus extract, goji berry extract, licorice extract, Angelica extract, brown root extract, Gangjinhyang extract, haphwanpi extract, wild boil extract, lump extract, ginseng extract and the like can be exemplified.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition using aloe, aloesin or aloe gel. Inflammatory bowel disease improving composition of the present invention may be commercialized as a drug or food.

1 is a photomicrograph of colon tissue showing that mucosal tissues are insignificant or insignificant when DSS-induced inflammatory bowel disease is induced in aloe, aloesin, and aloe gel compared to DDS-only group. to be.
Figure 2 shows that when aloe, aloesine and aloe gels are administered in DSS-induced inflammatory bowel disease, the activity of MPO is generally suppressed in a concentration-dependent manner compared to the DDS-only group.
3 is a result showing that the plasma concentration of LTB4 in the experimental animals induced by inflammatory bowel disease with DSS, the concentration of LTB4 is lower than the DDS-only group in general.
4 and 5 show that the concentrations of TNF-α and PGE ₂ in plasma-dependently decreased when the aloe, aloesine and aloe gel were administered to DS-induced inflammatory bowel disease compared to the DDS-only group. Showing results.
6 and 7 show the expression of TNF-α and IL-1β in a dose-dependent manner at the gene level when aloe, aloesin, and aloe gel were administered in DS-induced inflammatory bowel disease. This is a result showing that it is suppressed.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to Examples. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these examples.

< Example > Aloin, aloesin and Aloe gel  Anti-inflammatory activity evaluation experiment

<Example 1> Induction of colitis and histological examination of experimental animals with DDS

Six-week-old male SD rats (n = 120) were purchased from Central Experimental Animals (Seoul, Korea), and were freely supplied with feed and water for 1 week, and randomly divided into 12 groups of 10 animals.

The negative control group (Group 1) and the positive control group (Group 1) were fed AIN-76 feed, and the aloe-injected group (Group 3) contained 0.005%, 0.05%, and 0.1% by weight of alloin. AIN-76 feed, AIN-76 feed containing 0.005%, 0.05%, 0.1% and 0.5% by weight aloesine in the aloesine group (group 4), 0.5% in the aloe gel group (3 groups), AIN-76 feed containing 1%, and 0 2% aloe gel was fed (a portion of the sucrose of the AIN-76 feed was replaced with the content of each sample).

Two weeks after breeding, colitis was induced by supplying water containing 3% DSS to the positive control group and each experimental group for 1 week instead of water.

Three weeks later, the animals were sacrificed, colon tissues were removed, washed with PBS, fixed in 10% buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin after ethanol dehydration, and sectioned and observed under a microscope after hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining. .

The results are shown in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 1, in the positive control group, the deletion of the mucosal tissue was clearly observed as compared to the negative control group, but in the experimental group, the deletion of the mucosal tissue was very insignificant or not observed.

Example 2 Measurement of MPO Activity in Colon Tissue

MPO activity of colon tissues was measured according to Bradley et al. (Bradley et al., (1982) The Journal of Investigative Dermatology 78 (3), 206-209). The mucosal tissues of the colon are suspended and homogenized in 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) containing 0.5% hexa-decyl-trimethyl-ammonium bromide, followed by freeze-thaw and sonication three times, followed by 15 at 40,000 rpm. The supernatant obtained by centrifugation at 4 ° C. for 4 minutes was used as the enzyme solution. 100 μl of this enzyme solution was added to 2.9 ml of 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer solution (pH 6.0) containing 0- dianisidine hydrogen chloride and hydrogen peroxide, and reacted for 5 minutes at 470 nm for an ELISA microplate reader (BioTek Instruments, Inc., Winooski, VT, USA) and the change in absorbance was observed, MPO activity was measured by the change in absorbance for 1 minute. The results are shown in FIG. 2 as MPO units per gram of tissue (1 unit is defined as the activity capable of degrading 1 μmol of hydrogen peroxide at 25 ° C.).

Referring to FIG. 2, it was shown that aloe was suppressed MPO activity at a significant level in the 0.005% treatment group, and aloesine and aloe gel were shown to inhibit MPO activity in a concentration-dependent manner.

Example 3 Measurement of Leukotriene B4 ( LTB4 ) Plasma Concentration

Blood was collected at the expense of the experimental animal of <Example 1> and plasma was separated from the blood and immediately frozen and stored at -70 ° C before use.

Plasma concentration measurements of LTB4 were made according to the manufacturer's manual using an ELISA kit (R & D, Ann Arbor, MI, USA).

The results are shown in Figure 3, all experimental groups significantly lowered the plasma concentration of LTB4, each experimental group showed a generally concentration-dependent trend.

Experimental Example 4 TNF- α and PGE ₂ Plasma concentration measurement

Measurement of plasma concentrations of TNF-α and PGE ₂ was also performed according to the manufacturer's manual using an ELISA kit (R & D, Ann Arbor, MI, USA).

The results are shown in Figures 4 and 5, the plasma concentrations of TNF-α and PGE ₂ were significantly lower in all experimental groups, each group showed a concentration-dependent trend.

Experimental Example 5 Expression of TNF- α and IL- 1β at the Gene Level

The degree of expression at the gene level of TNF-α and IL-1β in colon tissues was measured via RT-PCR.

First, total RNA was separated from the mucosal tissue using Trizol reagent (Gibco BRL, Gaithersburg, MD), and then RT-PCR was performed using preMix RNA PCR kit (iNtRON, INC., Seoul, Korea) according to the manufacturer's manual. .

PCR was carried out using the primers of [Table 1] below in the RT-PCR product. PCR conditions were 94 ° C. for 5 minutes for initial denaturation, 94 ° C. for 30 seconds for denaturation, 60 ° C. for 30 seconds for conjugation, and 72 elongation reactions. 30 cycles were carried out at 1 ° C., and the final extension reaction was performed at 72 ° C. for 5 minutes. The amplified DNA was subjected to electrophoresis on 2% agarose gel containing 0.03 μg / ml ethium bromide to evaluate the expression level of TNF-α and IL-1β compared to the expression level of β-actin.

Gene name Forward primer Reverse primer β-actin CAT GTA TTC AGG CAT TGT TG (SEQ ID NO: 1) ATG GTA GAA GGT GGA CAG TG (SEQ ID NO: 2) IL-1β AGC ACA GAC CTG TCT TCC TA (SEQ ID NO: 3) CTC TGA GAG ACC TGA CTT GG (SEQ ID NO: 4) TNF-α CAG ATG GGC TGT ACC TTA TC (SEQ ID NO: 5) GCT GAC TTT CTC CTG GTA TG (SEQ ID NO: 6)

(Primer used in PCR)

The results are shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. 6 and 7 it can be seen that both experimental groups significantly inhibit the expression of TNF-α and IL-1β in a concentration-dependent manner.

Statistical processing

Data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, one way ANOVA test was used to determine the effect, and Duncan's multiple test was used for post test. Statistical significance was set to p <0.05.

Claims (6)

Inflammatory bowel disease improving composition comprising aloe gel as an active ingredient.
The method of claim 1,
The inflammatory bowel disease is inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, characterized in that ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, enteric Behcet's disease or ischemic enteritis.
The method of claim 1,
The active ingredient is an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, characterized in that included in the range 0.001% to 15% by weight based on the total weight of the composition.
The method of claim 1,
The composition is an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, characterized in that the pharmaceutical composition.
The method of claim 1,
The composition is an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, characterized in that the food composition.
The method of claim 5,
The food composition is an inflammatory bowel disease improving composition, characterized in that the beverage.

Images