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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Investigation of the Cellular Pharmacological Mechanism and Clinical Evidence of the Multi-Herbal Antiarrhythmic Chinese Medicine Xin Su Ning.

Yu-Ling Ma, Rou-Mu Hu, Xinchun Yang, Taiyi Wang, Penelope J Noble, Robert Wilkins, Clive Ellory, Carolyn Carr, Denis Noble, Jiefu Yang and 15 more

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effectiveness and safety of mexiletine in patients at risk for (recurrent) ventricular arrhythmias: a systematic review.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors at 16 institutions in 2 countries.

Yu-Ling MaOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Rou-Mu HuHeart Center & Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypertension, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Xinchun YangHeart Center & Beijing Key Laboratory of Hypertension, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Taiyi WangOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Penelope J NobleOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Robert WilkinsOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Clive ElloryOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Carolyn CarrOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Denis NobleOxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre & Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Jiefu YangDepartment of Cardiology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing, China.
Weixing LuDepartment of Cardiology, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Third Affiliated Hospital, Beijing, China.
Junhua ZhangInstitute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Hongde HuDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, West China Hospital, School of Clinic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Xiaomei GuoDepartment of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Min ChenGeriatrics Department, Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, China.
Yang WuClinical Departments of Cardiology, Dongfang Hospital Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Meng WeiDepartment of Cardiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Jingyuan MaoDepartment of Cardiology, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xiaochang MaDepartment of Cardiology, Xiyuan Hospital CACMS, Beijing, China.
Ling QinDepartment of Cardiology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Huanlin WuDepartment of Cardiology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Feng LuDepartment of Cardiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
Ying CaoDepartment of Cardiology, Hengyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hengyang, China.
Sheng GaoDepartment of Cardiology, Tianjin Hospital of ITCWM Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Wanli GuDepartment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaocheng People's Hospital, Liaocheng, China.
University of Oxford · GBBeijing University of Chinese Medicine · CNCapital Medical University · CNAffiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNBeijing Hospital · CNFirst Hospital of Jilin University · CNFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNHengyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNLiaocheng People's Hospital · CNLiaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CNSichuan University · CNTianjin Nankai Hospital · CNTianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNXiyuan Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Xin Su Ning (XSN), a China patented and certified multi-herbal medicine, has been available in China since 2005 for treating cardiac ventricular arrhythmia including arrhythmia induced by ischemic heart diseases and viral myocarditis, without adverse reactions being reported. It is vitally important to discover pharmacologically how XSN as a multicomponent medicine exerts its clinical efficacy, and whether the therapeutic effect of XSN can be verified by standard clinical trial studies. In this paper we report our discoveries in a cellular electrophysiological study and in a three-armed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter trial. Conventional electrophysiological techniques were used to study the cellular antiarrhythmic mechanism of XSN. Data was then modeled with computational simulation of human action potential (AP) of the cardiac ventricular myocytes. The clinical trial was conducted with a total of 861 eligible participants randomly assigned in a ratio of 2:2:1 to receive XSN, mexiletine, or the placebo for 4 weeks. The primary and secondary endpoint was the change of premature ventricular contraction (PVC) counts and PVC-related symptoms, respectively. This trial was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Register Center (ChiCTR-TRC-14004180). We found that XSN prolonged AP duration of the ventricular myocytes in a dose-dependent, reversible manner and blocked potassium channels. Patients in XSN group exhibited significant total effective responses in the reduction of PVCs compared to those in the placebo group (65.85% vs. 27.27%, P < 0.0001). No severe adverse effects attributable to XSN were observed. In conclusion, XSN is an effective multicomponent antiarrhythmic medicine to treat PVC without adverse effect in patients, which is convincingly supported by its class I & III pharmacological antiarrhythmic mechanism of blocking hERG potassium channels and hNaV1.5 sodium channel reported in our earlier publication and prolongs AP duration both in ventricular myocytes and with computational simulation of human AP presented in this report.

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cellular electrophysiologymulticomponent antiarrhythmic medicinepremature ventricular contractiontraditional Chinese medicineXin Su Ning

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