Abstract

The Trachyspermum ammi plant has anti-fungal properties. Some fungi such as a yeast two Sporothrix schenchii produces the arthritis in pack animals. The aim of this study is to examine the anti-fungal effects of this plant on the pro-inflammatory bio-markers, which are important in the course of fungal diseases. At first, the ethanol extract of the Trachyspermum ammi plant was provide by the Iranian biological resource center. We used chondrocyte cells as samples because they were similar to the cells with fungal infection. Then chondrocytes (5×105 cells/well) were incubated at a humidity of 90, 5 CO2 and 37°C for 72 h with control media alone or with Trachyspermum ammi at concentrations of 10 μg/ml. One set of cells was activated for 1 h with mannose (3 mg/ml) for both reverse-transcriptase PCR and real-time PCR analysis of Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-γ) and Interleukin-18 (IL-18) expression. The activated cells by mannose treated by the Trachyspermum ammi extract reduced TNF-γ expression as activated cells by mannose with fluconazole. However the IL-18 gene expression was reduced by both treatments but fluconazole had better effect. Based on the PCR and Real-time PCR methods analysis of inflammatory gene expression, Trachyspermum ammi plant such as the flavonoids has noticeable anti-fungal properties on chondrocyte cells.