Title : Experimental study on the molecular mechanism of anthraquinone cathartics in inducing melanosis coli.

Pub. Date : 2011 Jul

PMID : 21725878






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1 CONCLUSIONS: Rhu (anthraquinone purgatives) had apparent effect on inducing MC; its molecular mechanism is maybe to destroy intestinal mucosal barrier and advance proinflammatory factor TNF-alpha releasing, which leads to colonic epithelial cells apoptosis, and finally induce the change of MC due to the deposition of brown pigments, i.e. the macrophage phagocytized apoptotic body, on the colonic membrane. Anthraquinones tumor necrosis factor Cavia porcellus