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Issue title: The Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Food Factors (ICoFF 03)
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mochizuki, Mika | Kajiya, Katsuko | Terao, Junji | Kaji, Kazuhiko | Kumazawa, Shigenori | Nakayama, Tsutomu | Shimoi, Kayoko
Affiliations: Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan | Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Kayoko Shimoi, Ph.D., Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan. Tel./Fax: +81 54 264 5787; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Quercetin and its glucosides exist in plant foods and are recovered in human plasma as glucuronide and sulfate conjugates. Quercetin and its conjugates show antioxidant activity in model experiments. It remains obscure, however, whether these conjugates retain these biological functions in vivo. We investigated the interaction of quercetin conjugates with lipid bilayers using liposome systems. Less quercetin conjugate was incorporated into liposomes than quercetin aglycone. We also studied the vascular permeability of quercetin-3-glucuronide using cell culture inserts. Incubation of human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs) with IL-1α resulted in increased permeability of quercetin-3-glucuronide. Furthermore, quercetin-3-glucuronide showed no suppressive effect on TNF-α-induced cell expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) on HAECs. These observations suggest that circulating conjugates of quercetin pass through the endothelium to reach vascular smooth muscle cells and exert their biological effects in the blood vessels during inflammation followed by deconjugation of the conjugates.
Keywords: quercetin conjugate, vascular permeability, ICAM-1, liposome
Journal: BioFactors, vol. 22, no. 1-4, pp. 201-204, 2004
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