Evidence for a therapeutic effect of Braintone on ischemic brain damage***
Yuanyuan Qin
Yu Luo
Weiwei Gu
Lei Yang
Xikun Shen
Zhenlun Gu
Huiling Zhang
Xiumei Gao
摘要：This study used a novel combination of in vivo and in vitro experiments to show that Braintone had neuroprotective effects and clarified the molecular mechanisms underlying its efficacy. The Chinese herbal extract Braintone is composed of Radix Rhodiolase Essence, Radix Notoginseng Essence, Folium Ginkgo Essence and Rhizoma Chuanxiong. In vivo experiments showed that cerebral in-farction volume was reduced, hemispheric water content decreased, and neurological deficits were al eviated in a rat model of permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion after administration of 87.5, 175 or 350 mg/kg Braintone for 7 consecutive days. Western blot analysis showed that Braintone enhanced the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α, heme oxygenase-1 and vascular endothe-lial growth factor in the ischemic cortex of these rats. The 350 mg/kg dose of Braintone produced the most dramatic effects. For the in vitro experiments, prior to oxygen-glucose deprivation, rats were intragastrical y injected with 440, 880 or 1 760 mg/kg Braintone to prepare a Braintone-co-ntaining serum, which was used to pre-treat human umbilical vein endothelial cel s for 24 hours. Human umbilical vein endothelial cel injury was al eviated with this pre-treatment. Western blot and real-time PCR analysis showed that the Braintone-containing serum increased the levels of hypox-ia-inducible factor 1α mRNA and protein, heme oxygenase-1 protein and vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA in oxygen-glucose deprived human umbilical vein endothelial cel s. The 1 760 mg/kg dose produced the greatest increases in expression. Col ectively, these experimental findings suggest that Braintone has neuroprotective effects on ischemia-induced brain damage via the up-regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α, heme oxygenase-1 and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in vascular endothelial cel s.
机标关键词：ischemic brain damageendothelial growth factorneuroprotective effectsumbilical veingrowth factor expressionmiddle cerebral arteryneurological deficitsmolecular mechanisms
资助基金：grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No.30973510)Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, (No. K513400110)
论文发表日期：2013-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：13( 1743-1755 )
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