[Effect of inflammatory factor and yishen huoxue xiezhuo decoction on growth of glomerular mesangial cells in rats].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the part of inflammatory factors (cytokines) and Yishen Huoxue Xiezhuo (YSHXXZ) Decoction on the proliferation of extracorporeal cultured mesangial cells (MCs) in rats.


METHODS
The effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) as stimulating factors, its action on the proliferation of rat MCs were investigated by using the technique of 3H-TdR incorporation. Meanwhile, adopting serum pharmacology assay, the medicated serum of rat, containing YSHXXZ decoction was extracted and its effects on the growth of MCs were also studied.


RESULTS
LPS and IL-6, in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner, could markedly stimulate the MCS proliferation, while this stimulatory effects could be strongly antagonized by the serum containing YSHXXZ decoction.


CONCLUSIONS
Mesangial cell is the main target cell of the action of YSHXXZ decoction, and the inhibition on MCs might be one of the mechanisms of the YSHXXZ decoction in preventing the progression of chronic glomerulonephritis.
Chu
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Beijing Medical University, Beijing (100083).
Wei
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M
Wang
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D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000166:cytology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D000093242:Interleukin-6 Inhibitors
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D000093242:Interleukin-6 Inhibitors