title: Recipient-mediated effect of a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, ren-shen-yang-rong-tang (Japanese name: ninjin-youei-to), on hematopoietic recovery following lethal irradiation and syngeneic bone marrow transplantation.
abstract: Ren-shen-yang-rong-tang (Japanese name: Ninjin-youei-to, NYT), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, was evaluated for recipient-mediated effect on hematopoietic recovery in a murine model of syngeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). BALB/c recipient mice were preconditioned with a lethal total body irradiation (TBI) at a dose of 6.5 Gy and transplanted with syngeneic bone marrow (BM) cells. NYT treatments, given intraperitoneally (i.p.) once per day for 3 consecutive days in a dose of 0.625 mg, were performed either before or after TBI and BMT to assess any recipient-mediated effect of this compound. NYT pretreatment was as effective as NYT posttreatment in enhancing the total number of colony-forming unit erythroid (CFU-E) and colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) per marrow and spleen after TBI and BMT. NYT pretreatment caused a significant increase in marrow and splenic CFU-E and CFU-GM numbers over a prolonged period following TBI and BMT, and affected late-stage erythropoiesis (CFU-E) more profoundly than early-stage erythropoiesis (burst-forming unit erythroid, BFU-E). NYT pretreatment significantly accelerate recovery of not only erythrocyte and leukocyte counts but also platelet counts after transplantation with a limited number (1 x 10(5)) of BM cells. The same treatment, however, was significantly less effective in hematopoietic recovery after transplantation with a minimal number (1 x 10(4)) of BM cells, indicating that NYT accelerates recovery of donor-derived rather than recipient-derived cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hashino
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakurada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004920:Erythropoiesis / Q000187:drug effects; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000187:drug effects*; D006410:Hematopoiesis / Q000187:drug effects*; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011828:Radiation Chimera; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D007155:Immunologic Factors; C072867:ren-shen-yang-rong-tang