School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, China.
The First Clinical Medical School, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, China.
Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2022 Mar 31;2022:9205908. doi: 10.1155/2022/9205908. eCollection 2022.
Myocardial fibrosis refers to the pathological changes of heart structure and morphology caused by various reasons of myocardial damage. It has become an important challenge in the later clinical treatment of acute myocardial infarction/ischemic cardiomyopathy or diabetes complicated with heart failure. Ginseng Dingzhi Decoction (GN), a Chinese herbal medicine, can reduce heart failure and protect cardiomyocytes. We infer that this may be related to the interaction with intestinal microbiota and mitochondrial homeostasis. The regulatory mechanism of GN on gut microbiota and mitochondria has not yet been elucidated. The intestinal microbiota was analyzed by the 16S rRNA gene; the fecal samples were sequenced and statistically analyzed to determine the changes of microbiota in the phenotype of heart failure rats. In addition, GN can regulate the microbial population that increases the proportion of short-chain fatty acids and anti-inflammatory bacteria and reduces the proportion of conditional pathogens to diabetic phenotype. The results suggest that GN may improve myocardial injury by regulating intestinal flora. Our data also show that stress-type heart failure caused by TAC (transverse aortic constriction) is accompanied by severe cardiac hypertrophy, reduced cardiac function, redox imbalance, and mitochondrial dysfunction. However, the use of GN intervention can significantly reduce heart failure and myocardial hypertrophy, improve heart function and improve myocardial damage, and maintain the mitochondrial homeostasis and redox of myocardial cells under high glucose stimulation. Interestingly, through in vitro experiments after TMBIM6 siRNA treatment, the improvement effect of GN on cell damage and the regulation of mitochondrial homeostasis were eliminated. TMBIM6 can indirectly regulate mitophagy and mitochondrial homeostasis to attenuate myocardial damage and confirms the regulatory effect of GN on mitophagy and mitochondrial homeostasis. We further intervened cardiomyocytes in high glucose through metformin (MET) and GN combination therapy. Research data show that MET and GN combination therapy can improve the level of mitophagy and protect cardiomyocytes. Our findings provide novel mechanistic insights for the treatment of diabetes combined with myocardial injury (myocardial fibrosis) and provide a pharmacological basis for the study of the combination of Chinese medicine and conventional diabetes treatment drugs.
心肌纤维化是指各种原因导致心肌损伤引起的心脏结构和形态的病理变化,已成为急性心肌梗死/缺血性心肌病或糖尿病并发心力衰竭后期临床治疗的重要挑战。人参定志汤(GN)是一种中药,可减少心力衰竭并保护心肌细胞。我们推断,这可能与肠道微生物群和线粒体稳态的相互作用有关。GN 对肠道微生物群和线粒体的调节机制尚未阐明。通过 16S rRNA 基因分析肠道微生物群;对粪便样本进行测序和统计分析,以确定心力衰竭大鼠表型中微生物群的变化。此外,GN 可以调节微生物种群,增加短链脂肪酸和抗炎细菌的比例,减少条件病原体的比例,从而改善糖尿病表型。结果表明,GN 可能通过调节肠道菌群来改善心肌损伤。我们的数据还表明,由 TAC(横主动脉缩窄)引起的应激型心力衰竭伴有严重的心脏肥大、心脏功能降低、氧化还原失衡和线粒体功能障碍。然而,使用 GN 干预可以显著减轻心力衰竭和心肌肥大,改善心脏功能,改善心肌损伤,并维持高糖刺激下心肌细胞的线粒体稳态和氧化还原。有趣的是,通过 TMBIM6 siRNA 处理后的体外实验,GN 对细胞损伤的改善作用和对线粒体稳态的调节作用被消除。TMBIM6 可以间接调节自噬体和线粒体稳态,从而减轻心肌损伤,并证实了 GN 对自噬体和线粒体稳态的调节作用。我们进一步通过二甲双胍(MET)和 GN 联合治疗干预高糖培养的心肌细胞。研究数据表明,MET 和 GN 联合治疗可以提高自噬水平并保护心肌细胞。我们的研究结果为糖尿病合并心肌损伤(心肌纤维化)的治疗提供了新的机制见解,并为中药与常规糖尿病治疗药物联合治疗的研究提供了药理学基础。
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