title: The Combination of Three Components Derived from Sheng MaiSan Protects Myocardial Ischemic Diseases and Inhibits Oxidative Stress via Modulating MAPKs and JAK2-STAT3 Signaling Pathways Based on Bioinformatics Approach.
abstract: GRS is a drug combination of three components including ginsenoside Rb1, ruscogenin and schisandrin. It derived from the well-known TCM formula Sheng MaiSan, a widely used traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in clinic. The present study illuminates its underlying mechanisms against myocardial ischemic diseases based on the combined methods of bioinformatic prediction and experimental verification. A protein database was established through constructing the drug-protein network. And the target-pathway interaction network clustered the potential signaling pathways and targets of GRS in treatment of myocardial ischemic diseases. Several target proteins, such as NFKB1, STAT3 and MAPK14, were identified as the candidate key proteins, and MAPKs and JAK-STAT signaling pathway were suggested as the most related pathways, which were in accordance with the gene ontology analysis. Then, the predictive results were further validated and we found that GRS treatment alleviated hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)-induced cardiomyocytes injury via suppression of MDA levels and ROS generation, and potential mechanisms might related to the suppression of activation of MAPKs and JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathways. Conclusively, our results offer the evidence that GRS attenuates myocardial ischemia injury via regulating oxidative stress and MAPKs and JAK2-STAT3 signaling pathways, which supplied some new insights for its prevention and treatment of myocardial ischemia diseases.
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Donglin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoxue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yisha
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Junping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kou
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Complex Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Boyang
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yu
keywords: GRS; JAK-STAT signaling pathway; MAPKs signaling pathway; Sheng MaiSan; bioinformatics approach; myocardial ischemic diseases; oxidative stress