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Pharmacodynamic substances and molecular mechanisms of Tsantan Sumtang alleviating hypoxic pulmonary vascular
Changyu Lei1, Shanshan Su2, Zhanting Yang1
1Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University, Key Laboratory of High Altitude Medicine, Ministry of Education, Laboratory for High Altitude Medicine of Qinghai Province, Key Laboratory of Application and Foundation for High Altitude Medicine Research in Qinghai Province (Qinghai-Utah Joint Research Key Lab for High Altitude Medicine), Xining, 810001, China.
Ethnopharmacological Relevance:
Tsantan Sumtang, a traditional and common prescription of Tibetan medicine recorded in Four Tantra, which has been used as a folk medicine for cardiovascular diseases and heart failure in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolia. Our previous studies found that Tsantan Sumtang alleviated hypoxic pulmonary vascular remodeling (HPVR) in rats. However, the pharmacodynamic substances and molecular mechanisms of Tsantan Sumtang in the intervention of HPVR in high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) rat are unknown.
Aim Of The Study:
To investigate the pharmacodynamic and molecular mechanisms of Tibetan medicine Tsantan Sumtang in HPVR in HAPH rats.
Methods:
Male Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in a hypobaric oxygen chamber for 28 consecutive days to construct a HAPH model. During this period, rats received Tsantan Sumtang and sildenafil administration. The indicators of right ventricular hypertrophy and hemodynamics were evaluated by vevo3100 echocardiography. The mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) was detected by right heart catheterization technique. Meanwhile, the effects of Tsantan Sumtang on pulmonary small arteries remodeling was analyzed by immunofluorescence double staining (α-SMA, PCNA) and western blotting (PCNA). The test of Tsantan Sumtang on ACE, AT1R, ACE2, Mas (immunohistochemistry and western blotting) and Ang II, p-stat3 and STAT3 (western blotting) was carried out. Binding energy between 34 bioactive of Tsantan Sumtang and ACE/AT1R was screened by molecular docking method. The effect of 9 candidate ingredients on 3 % hypoxia-proliferated pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) was tested via CCK-8 assay. The effect of active substances on hypoxia-proliferated PASMCs was detected by crystal violet staining and 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine kit. The expression of ACE, Ang II, AT1R, ACE2, Mas, CDK4, CyclinD1, STAT3, p-STAT3 was tested by western blotting.
Results:
The mechanism of Tsantan Sumtang alleviating HPVR was based on down-regulated α-SMA, PCNA, ACE, AT1R in pulmonary small arteries, and ACE, Ang II, AT1R, p-STAT3, p-STAT3/STAT3 in lung tissue, while up-regulated ACE2 and Mas in pulmonary small arteries and lung tissue of HAPH rat. Dehydrodiisoeugenol, quercetin, ellagic acid inhibited hypoxia-proliferated PASMCs by regulating renin-angiotensin system and proliferation related proteins in vitro.
Conclusion:
Tsantan Sumtang regulated renin-angiotensin system and proliferation related proteins to alleviate hypoxic pulmonary vascular remodeling. Dehydrodiisoeugenol, quercetin and ellagic acid were active substances of Tsantan Sumtang modulating hypoxic pulmonary vascular remodeling.
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