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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2020

The Potential Mechanism of Wuwei Qingzhuo San against Hyperlipidemia Based on TCM Network Pharmacology and Validation Experiments in Hyperlipidemia Hamster.

Jianliang Li, Chaolu Wang, Lin Song, Shuzhen Cai, Zhiyong Li, Ya Tu

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jianliang LiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Chaolu WangWang Jing Hospital of CACMS, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100102, China.
Lin SongMongolian Medicine College, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010110, China.
Shuzhen CaiMongolian Medicine College, Inner Mongolia University of Nationalities, Tongliao 028000, China.
Zhiyong LiInstitute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3237-4317
Ya TuMedical Research Center, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-4174
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNInner Mongolia University for Nationalities · CNMinzu University of China · CNMongolian National University · MN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wuwei Qingzuo San (WWQZS), as a renowned traditional Mongolian patent medicine approved by Chinese State Food and Drug Administration, is used to treat hyperlipidemia, indigestion, and other ailments related to disorder of production of essence and phlegm, a typical abnormal metabolism of blood in traditional Mongolian medicine. A combination of network pharmacology and validation experiments in hyperlipidemia hamster is used to understand the potential mechanism of WWQZS for hypolipidemic effects, further for an integrated concept of traditional theory, bioactive constituents, and molecular mechanism for TMM. Through network pharmacology, we obtained 212 components, 219 predicted targets, and 349 known hyperlipidemia-related targets form public database and used Metascape to carry out enrichment analysis of 43 potential and 45 candidate targets to imply numerous BP concerned with metabolism of lipid, regulation of kinases and MF related to lipid binding, phosphatase binding, and receptor ligand activity that are involved in anti-hyperlipidemia. In addition, KEGG pathways that explicated hypolipidemic effect were involved in pathways including metabolism associated with kinase function according to MAPK signaling pathway, AMPK signaling pathway, and PI3K-Akt signaling pathway. Meanwhile, in HFD-induced hamster model, WWQZS could significantly reduce TC and ALT and help decrease TG, LDL-C as well; liver pathological section implied that WWQZS could relieve liver damage and lipid accumulation. Western blot indicated that WWQZS may upregulate CYP7A1 and activate AMPK to suppress the expression of HMGCR in livers. In conclusion, our results suggest that WWQSZS plays important dual hypolipidemic and liver-protective role in livers in HFD-induced hamster model. Through this research, a new reference is also provided to other researches in the study of ethnopharmacology.

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