title: [Study on the effect of zhimu combined huangqi on improving renal hypertension rat's cardiac dysfunction].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the effect of Zhimu and Huangqi used singly or combinatively on improving experimental cardiac dysfunction, and mainly to observe zhimu's effect on restraining sympathetic nerve and blocking beta-adrenergic-recepter and huangqi's effect of improving hemodynamics on heart failure.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two-clib one kidney operation was done to make renal hypertension rat model, 8 weeks after operation, rats were divided into groups and medicated for 6 weeks, and then their heart rate and blood pressure were measured, left ventricle was cannulated to estimate heart function, and heart-weight-index and left-ventricle-weight-index were measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Zhimu could slow rats heart rate obviously, prevent cardiac remodeling, but did not affect cardiac function remarkably; Huangqi could reduce blood pressure, heighten +dp/dtmax and -dp/dtmax remarkably; the combined use of the two drugs could decrease plasma catecholamine concentration, adjust myocardium cAMP content, and improve heart function obviously.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Zhimu and Huangqi can protect experimental cardiac dysfunction, and the combined use is better than the single use, which shows it better to use the two drugs combinatively in treating heart dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Beijing University of Chinese Pharmacology and Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Yu-chi
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Jia-yu
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D031403:Anemarrhena / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D027885:Astragalus propinquus / Q000737:chemistry; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D004357:Drug Synergism; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal