The invention discloses application of
monomer luteolin coming from vegetables and fruits and Chinese herbal
medicine, and particularly relates to the influence and mechanism of the
luteolin coming from vegetables and fruits and Chinese herbal
medicine on the
macrophage polarization mode and new application of the
luteolin in the anti-
inflammation aspect. Different polarization
modes of macrophages have important significance in development and prognosis of tumors, angiocardiopathy,
nephrosis, inflammations and the like. Induction of M1-type polarization of the macrophages is stimulated with
bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide and
interferon-gamma; induction of M2-type polarization is stimulated with IL-4; after the luteolin is adopted for treatment, the morphological change of the macrophages and expression of marking molecules of the macrophages after M1-type polarization and M2-type polarization are observed; an immunoblotting technology is adopted for detecting the expression ofa
protein channel. It is found that the luteolin can down-regulate M1-type pro-inflammatory cytokines and up-regulate M2-type pro-inflammatory cytokines; meanwhile,
protein p-STAT3 is horizontally down-regulated, and p-STAT6 is up-regulated, that is to say, the luteolin regulates the polarization of the M1 / M2 macrophages through the
protein channel STATs, and thus the anti-inflammatory effect isachieved.