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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016

Therapeutic Effects of Chinese Medicine Herb Pair, Huzhang and Guizhi, on Monosodium Urate Crystal-Induced Gouty Arthritis in Rats Revealed by Anti-Inflammatory Assessments and NMR-Based Metabonomics.

Bin Han, Huizhu Huang, Zhong Li, Mengjuan Gong, Wan Shi, Chunxia Zhu, Zulian Gu, Zhongjie Zou

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bin HanSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Huizhu HuangSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Zhong LiSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Mengjuan GongSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Wan ShiSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Chunxia ZhuSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Zulian GuSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Zhongjie ZouSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the therapeutic effects of Huzhang-Guizhi herb pair (HG), firstly included in Hu-Zhang Power documented in Taiping Shenghui Fang, on monosodium urate (MSU) crystals-induced gouty arthritis in rats. We found that pretreatment with HG in rats with gouty arthritis could significantly attenuate the ankle joint swelling, and this beneficial antigout effect might be mediated, at least in part, by inhibiting tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) production in synovial fluid as well as nuclear transcription factor-κB p65 (NF-κB p65) protein expression in synovial tissue. Moreover, metabonomic analysis demonstrated that 5 and 6 potential biomarkers associated with gouty arthritis in plasma and urine, respectively, which were mainly involved in energy metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and gut microbe metabolism, were identified. HG could reverse the pathological process of MSU-induced gouty arthritis through regulating the disturbed metabolic pathways. These results provided important mechanistic insights into the protective effects of HG against MSU-induced gouty arthritis in rats.

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