title: Study on protecting effects of baicalin and octreotide on hepatic injury in rats with severe acute pancreatitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the protective effects and mechanisms of baicalin and octreotide on hepatic injury in rats with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).
  
  
  METHODS
  The SAP rat models were prepared and randomly assigned to the model control group, baicalin treated group, and octreotide treated group while other healthy rats were assigned to the sham-operated group. Rat mortality, levels of ALT, AST, liver and pancreas pathological changes in all groups were observed at 3, 6 and 12 h after operation. Tissue microarray (TMA) sections of hepatic tissue were prepared to observe expression levels of Bax, Bcl-2 protein and caspase-3, and changes of apoptotic indexes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Rat survival at 12 h, expression levels of Bax, caspase-3 protein and apoptotic indexes of liver were all significantly higher in treated groups than in model control group. While the liver and pancreas pathological scores, contents of ALT, AST, and expression levels of Bcl-2 protein were all lower in treated groups than in the model control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both baicalin and octreotide can protect rats with SAP by decreasing the contents of ALT, AST and expression levels of Bcl-2 protein, and improving the expression levels of Bax protein, caspase-3 protein, and inducing apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Hangzhou First People's Hospital, 261 Huansha Road, Hangzhou 310006, Zhejiang Province, China. zxp99688@vip.163.com
authors.forename: Xi-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Guang-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Qi-Jun
authors.initials: QJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Tong-Fa
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Wen-Qin
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000097:blood; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D015282:Octreotide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D020011:Protective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013656:Taurocholic Acid; D013997:Time Factors; D046888:Tissue Array Analysis; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C494828:Bax protein, rat; D005419:Flavonoids; D020011:Protective Agents; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein; C038044:baicalin; D013656:Taurocholic Acid; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; C505410:Casp3 protein, rat; D053148:Caspase 3; D015282:Octreotide