title: Qiliqiangxin regulates the balance between tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-10 and improves cardiac function in rats with myocardial infarction.
abstract: The study investigated the effects of traditional Chinese drug Qiliqiangxin on cardiac function and the expression of pro/anti-inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha/IL-10 in rats with myocardial infarction (MI). Rats with MI were randomly divided into drug-treated group (MI-Q) and control group (MI-C) compared with sham-operated group (S). Rats in the MI-Q group were treated with crude drug of oral Qiliqiangxin 24h after operation at the dosage of 4g/kg/day for 4weeks, while in MI-C group and S group were treated with normal saline at the same time. Echocardiography and hemodynamic parameters, histopathologic changes and the expression of myocardial cytokines including TNF-alpha and IL-10 were assessed 4weeks after the drug therapy. The results indicated that rats of the MI-C group exhibited decreased cardiac function and increased ratio of TNF-alpha/IL-10 which principally secreted by myocardium compared with those of the S group and Qiliqiangxin treatment significantly improved cardiac function and histopathologic changes with down-regulated ratio of TNF-alpha/IL-10. These data suggests that Qiliqiangxin may improve cardiac function of rats with MI through regulation the balance between TNF-alpha and IL-10.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cardiovascular Immunology, Institute of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: You
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yu-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D006334:Heart Function Tests; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000188:drug therapy*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D016753:Interleukin-10