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Lactobacillus casei (L. casei) is one of the probiotic strains that may influence intestinal injury and inflammation in nonspecific intestinal diseases. We aimed to evaluate the effect of cell-free Lactobacillus casei 21L10 supernatant (LC) on the cell line HT-29 challenged with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in order to modulate production of NO, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. Cell line HT-29 was stimulated with LPS in the presence or absence of LC. Our results showed that LC from L. casei 21L10 did not affect the viability of unstimulated HT-29 cells line. HT-29 cell line treatment with LC caused significant decrease of LPS induced NO production after 3 h, and 24 h, but not after 48 h. Proliferation activity of LPS stimulated HT-29 cell line analysed with MTT assay significantly decreased after 24 h and 48 h, but not after 3 h. The majority of LPS stimulated HT-29 cell line treated with LC showed annexin V/PI positivity at 48 h survival, which corresponded to late apoptotic/necrotic cell features. The observed differences suggest that cell-free L. casei 21L10 supernatant could participate in attenuation of LPS-induced inflammation, and may exhibit anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic/necrotic effects. This study provides pilot data for the further development of L. casei exoproducts as an anti-inflammatory or anti-proliferative agent for the treatment of inflammatory and cancer diseases in gut. However, more data is needed before final conclusions of L. casei cell-free supernatant’s efficacy can be drawn.
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This study was funded by APVV 15–0613, APVV 19–0193, VEGA 1/0376/20, and VEGA 2/0010/21.
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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Dasa Cizkova, Milan Cizek, Marcela Maloveska, and Marta Kmetova. The funding of the research work and the first draft of the manuscript was written by Dasa Cizkova, Marcela Maloveska, Vladimir Kmet, and Dobroslava Bujnakova, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Cizkova, D., Cizek, M., Maloveska, M. et al. Cell-Free Lactobacillus casei 21L10 Modulates Nitric Oxide Release and Cell Proliferation/Cell Death in Lipopolysaccharide-Challenged HT-29 Cells. Inflammation 44, 2419–2428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10753-021-01512-0
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