Curcumin inhibits alloxan‐induced pancreatic islet cell damage via antioxidation and antiapoptosis
2020
The present study elucidates the possible protective effects of curcumin on beta-cells damaged by oxidative stress and its significance in controlling diabetes mellitus in in vitro experiments. Pancreatic islet (RIN-m5F) cells were treated with 25 mmol/L alloxan (AXN) to induce cell damage and the protective effects of curcumin were observed. The results showed that curcumin significantly promoted the cellular activity of AXN-treated RIN-m5F cells, decreased the ratio of apoptosis, downregulated the level of malondialdehyde, upregulated the levels of superoxide dismutase and reactive oxygen species, increased the expression of Bcl-2, cleaved caspase-3, and cleaved PARP1, and decreased the expression of Bax in AXN-treated cells. These results suggest that curcumin inhibits AXN-induced damage in RIN-m5F cells via antioxidative and antiapoptotic mechanisms.
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