[Mechanism of wenpi decoction delaying progression of chronic renal failure]

Jie Zhang; Yi-Gang Wan

[Mechanism of wenpi decoction delaying progression of chronic renal failure]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2006 Sep;31(17):1473-6.

[Article in Chinese]

Authors

Jie Zhang¹, Yi-Gang Wan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing 210008, China.

PMID: 17087093

Abstract

Wenpi decoction ameliorates the harmful factors of chronic renal failure, such as mesangial matrix and its cytokines, nuclear factor, endothelium-dependent relaxing factor, oxidative free raidical, apoptosis, lipide, protein, and blood rheology. Wenpi decoction is an effective agent for delaying the progression of chronic renal failure.

Publication types

English Abstract
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Apoptosis / drug effects
Cell Proliferation / drug effects
Disease Progression
Drug Combinations
Drugs, Chinese Herbal / isolation & purification
Drugs, Chinese Herbal / pharmacology*
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors / metabolism
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / metabolism
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / pathology
Mesangial Cells / cytology
NF-kappa B / metabolism
Plants, Medicinal* / chemistry
Superoxide Dismutase / metabolism

Substances

Drug Combinations
Drugs, Chinese Herbal
Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors
NF-kappa B
wenpi decoction
Superoxide Dismutase