College of Pharmacy, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dong Qing Nan Road, Guian New Area, 550025, People's Republic of China.
The Research Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, Qiqihar Medical University, Qiqihar, 161006, People's Republic of China.
Neurochem Res. 2023 Sep;48(9):2674-2686. doi: 10.1007/s11064-023-03937-5. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease and often occurs suddenly for no reason. Eucommiae folium (EF), an edible herb, can be used in the treatment of various kinds of brain diseases in clinic. From the perspective of safety and efficacy, EF is especially suitable for the treatment of chronic brain diseases. With the help of biolabels, this study was aimed to explore the value and feasibility of EF in the treatment of epilepsy. Proteomics and metabolomics were used to explore the biolabels of EF intervention in brain tissues. Bioinformatics was then applied to topologically analyze its neuroprotective effects and mechanisms and material basis based on biolabels, which were validated in an animal model. The biolabel-led research revealed that EF may exert the therapeutic potential to treat brain diseases through the interaction between multiple compounds and multiple targets, among which its therapeutic potential for epilepsy is particularly prominent. In the pentylenetetrazole-induction model, EF and four active compounds (oleamide, catechol, chlorogenic acid, and kaempferol) protected epileptic hippocampal neurons (Nissl and FJB staining) against mitochondrial dysfunction (MYH6, MYL3, and MYBPC3, etc.) and calcium overload (TNNI3, TNNC1, and TNNT2, etc.) through the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy pathway. This study provides new evidence and insights for the neuroprotective effects of EF, in which four active compounds may be potential drug candidates for the treatment of epilepsy.
癫痫是一种慢性脑部疾病,通常无缘无故突然发作。杜仲叶(EF)是一种可食用的草药,可用于临床治疗各种脑部疾病。从安全性和疗效的角度来看,EF 特别适合治疗慢性脑部疾病。本研究借助生物标志物,旨在探讨 EF 治疗癫痫的价值和可行性。采用蛋白质组学和代谢组学方法探索 EF 干预脑组织的生物标志物。然后应用生物信息学基于生物标志物对其神经保护作用和机制以及物质基础进行拓扑分析,并在动物模型中进行验证。生物标志物研究表明,EF 可能通过多种化合物与多个靶标相互作用发挥治疗脑疾病的潜力,其中其治疗癫痫的潜力尤为突出。在戊四氮诱导模型中,EF 和四种活性化合物(油酰胺、儿茶酚、绿原酸和山柰酚)通过肥厚型心肌病通路保护癫痫海马神经元(尼氏染色和 FJB 染色)免受线粒体功能障碍(MYH6、MYL3 和 MYBPC3 等)和钙超载(TNNI3、TNNC1 和 TNNT2 等)的影响。本研究为 EF 的神经保护作用提供了新的证据和见解,其中四种活性化合物可能是治疗癫痫的潜在药物候选物。