Jahanshahi, Saeideh and Kheirandish, Farnaz and Kazemi, Bahram and Montazeri, Maryam and Fallahi, Shirzad and Karimi Rouzbahani, Arian and Javadi Mamaghani, Amirreza (2024) Investigating the Effect of Satureja khuzestanica Essential oil on MDR1 Gene Expression in Leishmania major. Acta Parasitol.
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Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is among the neglected diseases in the world. Pentavalent antimonial compounds are considered the first-line treatment for this disease. However, using alternative natural products has received great attention due to the side effects of chemical drugs and drug resistance of the Leishmania parasite. The present study aims to investigate the effect of Satureja khuzestanica essential oil (SKEO) on MDR1 gene expression. Methods: In this study, standard strains of Leishmania major promastigotes were exposed to 5, 10, 15, and 20 µg/ml of SKEO. MDR1 gene expression of parasites exposed to essential oil was evaluated using real-time PCR. GAPDH was employed as the housekeeping gene for internal control. Results: Despite the increase, no statistically significant difference was observed in the relative expression of the MDR1 gene between the control group and the groups containing 5, 10, and 20 µg/ml of SKEO (P > 0.05). The relative expression of the MDR1 gene significantly increased in the group containing 15 μg/ml of essential oil compared to the control one (P < 0.05). Conclusion: This study showed that the use of essential oil of Satureja khuzestanica plant can have an increasing effect on the expression of MDR1 gene of Leishmania promastigotes, which is the best case if Satureja khuzestanica essential oil reduces the expression of MDR1 gene. So it seems that the use of essential oil of Satoria plant is effective in controlling Leishmania parasite, but its concentrations induce drug resistance. As a result, concentrations of essential oil should be used that have a controlling effect on the growth and proliferation of Leishmania parasite and also have the least effect on the induction of MDR1 gene expression. Keywords: MDR1; Promastigote; Satureja khuzestanica.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica R Medicine > RV Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | samira sepahvandy |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2024 05:27 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2024 05:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/4644 |
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