H. japonicum Thunb. ex Murray was purchased from Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Puning, China); α-naphthyl isothiocyanate (ANIT, 98%) was purchased from Shanghai Macklin Biochemical Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China); quercetin (>98.0%) and ursodeoxycholic acid (UCDA, >98%) were purchased from Dalian Melone Biology Technology Co., Ltd. (Dalian, China).
Olive oil was purchased from Sigma Aldrich Trading Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), direct bilirubin (DBIL), total bilirubin (TBIL), total bile acid (TBA), ALT, and AST assay kits and
glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) kits were purchased from the Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute (Nanjing, China). The
Bio-Rad DC protein assay reagent package was purchased from Bio-Rad Laboratories (CA, USA).
HyPure molecular biology grade water,
FastStart Universal SYBR Green Master mix (Rox), and
RevertAid First Strand cDNA synthesis kit were purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). The primers against PTGS2, B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL2), cholesterol 7-alpha hydroxylase (CYP7A1), farnesoid X receptor (FXR), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) were purchased from Servicebio Technology Co., Ltd. (Wuhan, China). All other chemicals and reagents were of analytical grade or higher and were purchased from commercial sources.
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