Department of Medicinal Chemistry of Nature Product, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, No, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
Chin Med. 2012 Mar 13;7(1):6. doi: 10.1186/1749-8546-7-6.
Radix Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen) has been used as a principal herb in treating cardiovascular diseases in Chinese medicine. Salvianolic acid B (SA-B), a water-soluble active component of Danshen, was found to have anti-myocardial ischemia (anti-MI) effect. This study aims to investigate mechanisms of SA-B on MI.
Five conventional Western medicines (isosorbide dinitrate, verapamil, propranolol, captopril and trimethazine) with different mechanisms for treating cardiovascular diseases were selected as positive references to compare with SA-B in changing of the metabolomic profiles in MI rats under treatment. Potential mechanisms of SA-B were further investigated in H9C2 cell line.
The metabolomic profiles between SA-B- and propranolol-treated MI rats were similar, since there was a big overlap between the two groups in the PLS-DA score plot. Finally, it was demonstrated that SA-B exhibited a protective effect on MI mainly by decreasing the concentration of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and Ca2+ and inhibiting protein kinase A (PKA).
SA-B and propanolol exhibited similar metabolomic profiles, indicating that the two drugs might have a similar mechanism.
丹参作为中药治疗心血管疾病的主要草药,其水溶性活性成分丹酚酸 B(SA-B)具有抗心肌缺血(抗-MI)作用。本研究旨在探讨 SA-B 对 MI 的作用机制。
选择五种常规西药(硝酸异山梨酯、维拉帕米、普萘洛尔、卡托普利和三甲嗪)作为阳性对照,与 SA-B 比较治疗 MI 大鼠的代谢组学特征。进一步在 H9C2 细胞系中研究 SA-B 的潜在作用机制。
SA-B 和普萘洛尔治疗 MI 大鼠的代谢组学图谱相似,因为两组在 PLS-DA 得分图中有很大的重叠。最后,结果表明 SA-B 对 MI 的保护作用主要是通过降低环磷酸腺苷(cAMP)和 Ca2+的浓度以及抑制蛋白激酶 A(PKA)来实现的。
SA-B 和普萘洛尔表现出相似的代谢组学图谱,表明这两种药物可能具有相似的作用机制。