[Research progress of Chinese herbs inhibiting NADPH oxidase].

Oxidative damage mediated by the abnormal activation of NADPH oxidase and the resulting excessive ROS generation is the pathogenesis for various diseases. Chinese herbs can play a role in the antioxidant treatment by inhibiting NADPH oxidase, which is meaningful for the treatment of pathological conditions such as injury of tissues, blood vessels and nerves, atherosclerosis, ischemia reperfusion, hypertension and hyperglycemia. In this paper, different forms of Chinese herbs including monomers, compounds and Chinese patent medicines with the inhibitory effect against NADPH oxidase would be reviewed, in order to explain and generalize their possible functions and the target mechanism for inhibition.