Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2016, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (5): 677-682.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2016.05.012

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Dispelling turbid phlegm herb affects the changes in serum lipid and related inflammatory factors in a rabbit model of dietary atherosclerosis

Song Xiao-liang, Wang Shuai, Wang Feng-rong   

  1. Hospital Affiliated to Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang 110032, Liaoning Province, China
  • Received:2015-12-07 Online:2016-01-29 Published:2016-01-29
  • Contact: Wang Feng-rong, Chief physician, Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Hospital Affiliated to Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang 110032, Liaoning Province, China
  • About author:Song Xiao-liang, Attending physician, Hospital Affiliated to Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang 110032, Liaoning Province, China
  • Supported by:

     the Health and Family Planning Commission of Liaoning Province, No. LNCC-C01-2015

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Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Many animal experiments and clinical observation proved that dispelling turbid phlegm herb has good adjustment function on serum lipid, lipoprotein and liver lipid.
OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of dispelling turbid phlegm herb on monocyte chemotactic factor-1, C-reactive protein and serum lipids in rabbits with dietary atherosclerosis. 
METHODS: A total of 50 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into five groups. Rabbits in the blank control group were fed with basic feed, and simultaneously intragastrically administrated physiological saline 10 mL/kg per day, for 10 consecutive weeks. Rabbits in the model group were given high-fat diet to prepare atherosclerosis models, and simultaneously intragastrically administrated physiological saline 10 mL/kg per day, for 10 consecutive weeks. Rabbits in the phlegm turbidity treatment group were given high-fat diet to prepare atherosclerosis models, and simultaneously intragastrically administrated dispelling turbid phlegm herb 10 mL/kg per day, for 10 consecutive weeks. Rabbits in the Xuezhikang group were given high-fat diet to prepare atherosclerosis models, and simultaneously administrated Xuezhikang 10 mL/kg per day, for 10 consecutive days. Rabbits in the phlegm turbidity treatment group were given high-fat diet for 10 weeks to prepare atherosclerosis models, and intragastrically administered physiological saline 10 mL/kg per day for 6 weeks, and then given dispelling turbid phlegm herb 10 mL/kg per day for 4 weeks. At 10 weeks, serum lipid, C-reactive protein, and monocyte chemokine 1 mRNA expressions were detected, and pathological observation of the aorta was performed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Xuezhikang and dispelling turbid phlegm herb could decrease serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, high density lipid protein cholesterol, C-reactive protein and monocyte chemokine 1 mRNA expression level, and apparently inhibited atherosclerotic changes. The preventive effect of dispelling turbid phlegm herb was better that its therapeutic effect.