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A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: San-Cao Granule (SCG) has been used in patients with liver fibrosis for many years and has shown good effect. However, its mechanism of therapeutic action is not clear because of its complex chemical system. The purpose of our study is to establish a comprehensive and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929602 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/DDDT.S96964 |
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author | Wei, Shizhang Niu, Ming Wang, Jian Wang, Jiabo Su, Haibin Luo, Shengqiang Zhang, Xiaomei Guo, Yanlei Liu, Liping Liu, Fengqun Zhao, Qingguo Chen, Hongge Xiao, Xiaohe Zhao, Pan Zhao, Yanling |
author_facet | Wei, Shizhang Niu, Ming Wang, Jian Wang, Jiabo Su, Haibin Luo, Shengqiang Zhang, Xiaomei Guo, Yanlei Liu, Liping Liu, Fengqun Zhao, Qingguo Chen, Hongge Xiao, Xiaohe Zhao, Pan Zhao, Yanling |
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description | ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: San-Cao Granule (SCG) has been used in patients with liver fibrosis for many years and has shown good effect. However, its mechanism of therapeutic action is not clear because of its complex chemical system. The purpose of our study is to establish a comprehensive and systemic method that can predict the mechanism of action of SCG in antihepatic fibrosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, a “compound–target–disease” network was constructed by combining the SCG-specific and liver fibrosis–specific target proteins with protein–protein interactions, and network pharmacology was used to screen out the underlying targets and mechanisms of SCG for treatment of liver fibrosis. Then, some key molecules of the enriched pathway were chosen to verify the effects of SCG on liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide (TAA). RESULTS: This systematic approach had successfully revealed that 16 targets related to 11 SCG compounds were closely associated with liver fibrosis therapy. The pathway-enrichment analysis of them showed that the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway is relatively important. Animal experiments also proved that SCG could significantly ameliorate liver fibrosis by inhibiting the TGF-β1/Smad pathway. CONCLUSION: SCG could alleviate liver fibrosis through the molecular mechanisms predicted by network pharmacology. Furthermore, network pharmacology could provide deep insight into the pharmacological mechanisms of Chinese herbal formulas. |
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spelling | pubmed-47670562016-02-29 A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis Wei, Shizhang Niu, Ming Wang, Jian Wang, Jiabo Su, Haibin Luo, Shengqiang Zhang, Xiaomei Guo, Yanlei Liu, Liping Liu, Fengqun Zhao, Qingguo Chen, Hongge Xiao, Xiaohe Zhao, Pan Zhao, Yanling Drug Des Devel Ther Original Research ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: San-Cao Granule (SCG) has been used in patients with liver fibrosis for many years and has shown good effect. However, its mechanism of therapeutic action is not clear because of its complex chemical system. The purpose of our study is to establish a comprehensive and systemic method that can predict the mechanism of action of SCG in antihepatic fibrosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, a “compound–target–disease” network was constructed by combining the SCG-specific and liver fibrosis–specific target proteins with protein–protein interactions, and network pharmacology was used to screen out the underlying targets and mechanisms of SCG for treatment of liver fibrosis. Then, some key molecules of the enriched pathway were chosen to verify the effects of SCG on liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide (TAA). RESULTS: This systematic approach had successfully revealed that 16 targets related to 11 SCG compounds were closely associated with liver fibrosis therapy. The pathway-enrichment analysis of them showed that the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway is relatively important. Animal experiments also proved that SCG could significantly ameliorate liver fibrosis by inhibiting the TGF-β1/Smad pathway. CONCLUSION: SCG could alleviate liver fibrosis through the molecular mechanisms predicted by network pharmacology. Furthermore, network pharmacology could provide deep insight into the pharmacological mechanisms of Chinese herbal formulas. Dove Medical Press 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4767056/ /pubmed/26929602 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/DDDT.S96964 Text en © 2016 Wei et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Wei, Shizhang Niu, Ming Wang, Jian Wang, Jiabo Su, Haibin Luo, Shengqiang Zhang, Xiaomei Guo, Yanlei Liu, Liping Liu, Fengqun Zhao, Qingguo Chen, Hongge Xiao, Xiaohe Zhao, Pan Zhao, Yanling A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title | A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title_full | A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title_fullStr | A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title_full_unstemmed | A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title_short | A network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of San-Cao Granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
title_sort | network pharmacology approach to discover active compounds and action mechanisms of san-cao granule for treatment of liver fibrosis |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929602 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/DDDT.S96964 |
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