title: Metabolomic Study on the Preventive Effect of Patrinia scabiosaefolia Fisch on Multipathogen Induced Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Rats.
abstract: Patrinia scabiosaefolia Fisch (PSF), a well-known traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has been used as a "heat-clearing and detoxifying" agent. The present study was to illustrate the preventive effect of PSF on pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in rats. The PID model was constructed by multipathogen infection of the upper genital tract with reference to the method previously reported. Urine metabolomic analysis was conducted with a GC-MS coupled with derivatization method. In this study, PID rats showed obvious infiltration of inflammatory cells and elevated expression of cytokines (IL-1β and IL-6) in upper genital tract, compared with control rats. Sixteen differentiating metabolites contributed to the alteration of metabolic profile in PID rats, including two amino acids, three fat acids, nine organic acids, and two types of sugars. The rats, infected by multipathogen and administered with PSF, showed decreased infiltration of inflammatory cells and lowered expression of cytokines in upper genital tract, compared with PID rats. Meanwhile, PSF intervened in the PID-associated alterations in TCA cycle, sugar metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and other uncertain metabolic pathways. These results indicate that PSF has preventive effect on multipathogen induced PID and holistic interventional effect on disease-associated metabolomic change.
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China ; Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Obstetrics & Gynecology Research, The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China ; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China ; Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Obstetrics & Gynecology Research, The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoke
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China ; Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Obstetrics & Gynecology Research, The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China ; Key Laboratory of Hunan Province for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Obstetrics & Gynecology Research, The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Zuoqi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410007, China.
authors.forename: Jieying
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Shuqiong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: The Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Yichao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
authors.forename: Zeneng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Clinic Pharmacy Research Laboratory, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
authors.forename: Daxiong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Yichu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nie