The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicines, and relates to an application of
ellagic acid and a metabolic derivative
urolithin compound thereof in preparation of medicines for treating autoimmune diseases and immunological rejection after organ /
tissue transplantation. The invention takes classic animal models related to
autoimmunity and immunoregulation, namely experimental
autoimmune encephalomyelitis,
ulcerative colitis and
skin transplantation as examples. The multi-angle experiments in multiple aspects such as
nerve function score,
lesion tissue
pathology change, inflammatory factor expression, pro-
inflammatory cell number and the like prove that the
ellagic acid and the metabolic derivative thereof remarkably relieve the degree of experimental
autoimmune encephalomyelitis disease and inhibit infiltration of inflammatory cells to the center; the
pathological state of
ulcerative colitis is obviously improved, and the colon length is recovered; the
inflammatory cell infiltration of the
skin graft in a
skin transplantation model can be inhibited, the
regulatory T cell proportion can be up-regulated, the
immune tolerance can be enhanced, and the clinical application value and the development prospect are relatively high.