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KMID : 0363620110320010164
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Journal of Korean Oriental Medicine
2011 Volume.32 No. 1 p.164 ~ p.174
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Effects of Concurrent Administration of Hyeolbuchukeo-tang and Aspirin on Atherosclerosis in the Mouse
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Lee Beom-Joon
Yun Seung-Youn
Park Hyun-Woo
Park Ji-Hyuk
Cho In-Young
Lee Jeong-Sook
Lew Jae-Hwan
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Abstract
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Objective: The antiplatelet agent aspirin has been widely used for treating atherosclerosis in western medicine, and its efficacy has been proven in cardiac and extracardiac vascular diseases. On the other hand, Hyeolbuchukeo-tang has been widely used for treating blood stasis syndrome in traditional medicine. Therefore we investigated whether Hyeolbuchukeo-tang could have a synergic effect along with aspirin.
Methods & Materials: Male mice were randomly divided into three different experimental groups: a non-treated group(Control group), an aspirin-treated group(AP group), and an aspirin with Hyeolbuchukeo-tang-treated group(APH group). The control group was fed only an atherogenic diet, the AP group an atherogenic diet plus Aspirin 5 mg/kg, and the APH group an atherogenic diet plus Aspirin 5 mg/kg with Hyeolbuchukeo-tang 100 mg/kg. We investigated plasma lipid with liver function test, and performed the histological investigation of liver and abdominal aorta.
Results: 1. We investigated photomicrographic changes of liver and abdominal aorta tissue. They showed that histological injury of aorta and lipid accumulations of the liver were lower in the AP and APH groups than in the control group. 2. In the APH group, plasma triglyceride levels were significantly lower than those in the control and AP groups. 3. There were no differences in aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels among the control, AP and APH groups.
Conclusion: The above results show that a combined treatment of Hyeolbuchukeo-tang and aspirin has a somewhat synergic effect in terms of inhibiting vessel injury and decreasing lipid deposits on liver cells without liver toxicity.
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KEYWORD
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Aspirin, atherosclerosis, hypertriglyceridemia, Hyeolbuchukeo-tang(血府逐瘀湯), ApoE(-/-)mouse
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