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Liu Y, Chen H, Yang G, Feng F. Metabolomics and serum pharmacochemistry combined with network pharmacology uncover the potential effective ingredients and mechanisms of Yin-Chen-Si-Ni Decoction treating ANIT-induced cholestatic liver injury. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 335:118713. [PMID: 39163894 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2024.118713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2024] [Revised: 05/22/2024] [Accepted: 08/17/2024] [Indexed: 08/22/2024]
Abstract
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Yin-Chen-Si-Ni Decoction is a classical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription that is used clinically for treating cholestatic liver injury (CLI) and other hepatic diseases. However, the material basis and underlying mechanisms of YCSND are not clear. AIM OF THE STUDY To investigate effective components and mechanisms of YCSND in the treatment of CLI using serum pharmacochemistry, metabolomics, and network pharmacology. MATERIALS AND METHODS Biochemical indicators, liver index, and histopathology analysis were adopted to evaluate the protective effect of YCSND on ANIT-induced CLI rats. Then, a UPLC-Q-Exactive Orbitrap MS/MS analysis of the migrant components in serum and liver including prototype and metabolic components was performed in YCSND. In addition, a study of the endogenous metabolites using serum and liver metabolomics was performed to discover potential biomarkers, metabolic pathways, and associated mechanisms. Further, the network pharmacology oriented by in vivo migrant components was also used to pinpoint the active ingredients, core targets, and signaling pathways of YCSND. Finally, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) were used to predict the binding ability between components and core targets, and a real-time qPCR (RT-qPCR) experiment was used to measure the mRNA expression of the core target genes. RESULTS Pharmacodynamic studies suggest that YCSND could exert obvious hepatoprotective effects on CLI rats. Furthermore, 68 compounds, comprising 32 prototype components and 36 metabolic components from YCSND, were found by serum pharmacochemistry analysis. Network pharmacology combining molecular docking and MDS showed that apigenin, naringenin, 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid, and isoformononetin have better binding ability to 6 core targets (EGFR, AKT1, IL6, MMP9, CASP3, PPARG). Additionally, PI3K, TNF-α, MAPK3, and six core target genes in liver tissues were validated with RT-qPCR. Metabolomics revealed the anti-CLI effects of YCSND by regulating four metabolic pathways of primary bile acid and biosynthesis, phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis, taurine and hypotaurine metabolism, and arachidonic acid metabolism. Integrating metabolomics and network pharmacology identified four pathways related to CLI, including the PI3K-Akt, HIF-1, MAPK, and TNF signaling pathway, which revealed multiple mechanisms of YCSND against CLI that might involve anti-inflammatory and apoptosis. CONCLUSION The research based on serum pharmacochemistry, network pharmacology, and metabolomics demonstrates the beneficial hepatoprotective effects of YCSND on CLI rats by regulating multiple components, multiple targets, and multiple pathways, and provides a potent means of illuminating the material basis and mechanisms of TCM prescriptions.
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- Yanru Liu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China; Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance (China Pharmaceutical University), Ministry of Education, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China; Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance (China Pharmaceutical University), Ministry of Education, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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Qiu W, Kang J, Ding H, Sun R, Yang Z, Ge J. Aerobic composting of chicken manure with amoxicillin: Alpha diversity is closely related to lipid metabolism, and two-component systems mediating their relationship. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 360:127543. [PMID: 35777649 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Composting is a technology that can use various functional microorganisms to degrade antibiotics. However, antibiotics will cause a coercion for the growth of most microorganisms. Microorganism can survive different environments, thanks to the development of different adaptive responses. Often, two-component systems sense changes in the environment and trigger a cellular response and adaptation. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to explore how the two-component system modulates the corresponding metabolic functions to affect alpha diversity during composting. The results show that amoxicillin increases species diversity, reduces species richness. Lipid metabolism is an important metabolic pathway mediating changes in alpha diversity. Two-component system indirectly affects alpha diversity by regulating lipid metabolism. Firmicutes are important microbial communities mediating changes in alpha diversity This work presents an understanding of the impact of environmental information processing on microbial diversity, during composting.
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- Wei Qiu
- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, China; Key Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Heilongjiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China.
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Identification of New Toxicity Mechanisms in Drug-Induced Liver Injury through Systems Pharmacology. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13071292. [PMID: 35886075 PMCID: PMC9315637 DOI: 10.3390/genes13071292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Among adverse drug reactions, drug-induced liver injury presents particular challenges because of its complexity, and the underlying mechanisms are still not completely characterized. Our knowledge of the topic is limited and based on the assumption that a drug acts on one molecular target. We have leveraged drug polypharmacology, i.e., the ability of a drug to bind multiple targets and thus perturb several biological processes, to develop a systems pharmacology platform that integrates all drug–target interactions. Our analysis sheds light on the molecular mechanisms of drugs involved in drug-induced liver injury and provides new hypotheses to study this phenomenon.
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Cao X, Zhang K, Wang X, Yao F, Sun J, Li Y, Sun D, Liu Y, Sui J. Effect of Pu-erh tea on acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity assessed by physiological, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses. J Funct Foods 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2022.105059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Wu FL, Hu YH, Ji P, Li CC, He J. Metabonomics Study on the hepatoprotective effect mechanism of polysaccharides from different processed products of Angelica Sinensis on the layer chickens based on UPLC-Q/TOF-MS/MS, multivariate statistical analysis and conjoint analysis. Biomed Chromatogr 2022; 36:e5362. [PMID: 35393691 PMCID: PMC9286391 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.5362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Chicken colibacillosis is one of the most severe diseases in the poultry industry. Ceftiofur sodium (CS) is often used to treat it in clinical practice and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) accumulates in the chicken's body. Previous experimental studies found that CS combined with LPS could induce liver injury in layer chickens, and polysaccharides from charred Angelica sinensis(CASP) had a better hepatoprotective effect than polysaccharides from unprocessed Angelica sinensis(UASP). However, the intervention mechanism was unclear. Thus, UPLC–Q/TOF–MS/MS‐based metabonomics and transcriptomics were used in this study to clarify the hepatoprotective effect mechanism of CASP and UASP in layer chickens. Transcriptomics and enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay were used for biological verification of some critical mutual metabolic pathways screened with metabonomics. The comprehensive analysis results showed that in a layer chicken liver injury model built with LPS and CS, 12 critical metabolic pathways were disturbed, involving 10 important differential metabolites. The hepatoprotective effect mechanism of CASP is related to the arachidonic acid metabolism and mTOR signaling pathways, involving nine important differential metabolites. In contrast, the hepatoprotective effect mechanism of UASP is related to the arachidonic acid metabolism pathway, involving six important differential metabolites.
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- Fan-Lin Wu
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, PR China
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Li ZQ, Wang LL, Zhou J, Zheng X, Jiang Y, Li P, Li HJ. Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics profiling reveals the metabolic pathways affected in dictamnine-induced hepatotoxicity in mice. J Proteomics 2020; 213:103603. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.103603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Revised: 10/12/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Ding Y, Wang R, Zhang J, Zhao A, Lu H, Li W, Wang C, Yuan X. Potential Regulation Mechanisms of P-gp in the Blood-Brain Barrier in Hypoxia. Curr Pharm Des 2019; 25:1041-1051. [PMID: 31187705 DOI: 10.2174/1381612825666190610140153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a barrier of the central nervous system (CNS), which can restrict the
free exchange of substances, such as toxins and drugs, between cerebral interstitial fluid and blood, keeping the
relative physiological stabilization. The brain capillary endothelial cells, one of the structures of the BBB, have a
variety of ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC transporters), among which the most widely investigated is Pglycoprotein
(P-gp) that can efflux numerous substances out of the brain. The expression and activity of P-gp are
regulated by various signal pathways, including tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)/protein kinase C-β (PKC-
β)/sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/Src kinase, etc. However,
it remains unclear how hypoxic signaling pathways regulate the expression and activity of P-gp in brain
microvascular endothelial cells. According to previous research, hypoxia affects the expression and activity of the
transporter. If the transporter is up-regulated, some drugs enter the brain's endothelial cells and are pumped back
into the blood by transporters such as P-gp before they enter the brain tissue, consequently influencing the drug
delivery in CNS; if the transporter is down-regulated, the centrally toxic drug would enter the brain tissue and
cause serious adverse reactions. Therefore, studying the mechanism of hypoxia-regulating P-gp can provide an
important reference for the treatment of CNS diseases with a hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) component. This
article summarized the mechanism of regulation of P-gp in BBB in normoxia and explored that of hypoxia.
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- Yidan Ding
- School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Plateau Environmental Damage Control, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- Pharmacy Department, First Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Plateau Environmental Damage Control, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Plateau Environmental Damage Control, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Plateau Environmental Damage Control, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Plateau Environmental Damage Control, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Yang Y, Li F, Wei S, Liu X, Wang Y, Liu H, Wang J, Li H, Cai H, Zhao Y. Metabolomics profiling in a mouse model reveals protective effect of Sancao granule on Con A-Induced liver injury. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2019; 238:111838. [PMID: 30930257 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.111838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2018] [Revised: 03/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Sancao granule (SCG) is a traditional Chinese herb formula, which has been used for autoimmune liver disease for decades. Previous study demonstrated that there was an exactly therapeutic effect of SCG on autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) by improving liver function and alleviating the clinical symptoms. However, studies of the mechanism by which SCG alleviates Con A-induced liver injury (CILI) should be complemented. MATERIALS AND METHODS An ultraperformance liquid chromatography with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF/MS)-based metabolomics approach combined with principle component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal projection to latent structures discriminate analysis (OPLS-DA) were integrated applied to obtain metabolites for clarifying mechanisms of disease. RESULTS In accordance with previously study, the present study demonstrated that SCG could obviously improve the liver injury in mouse induced by Con A via downregulating serum biochemical indexes, alleviating the histological damage and inhibiting the neutrophil infiltration in liver tissues. Different expression of 9 metabolites related to 8 pathways, including fatty acid biosynthesis, arachidonic acid metabolisms, linoleic acid metabolisms, sphingolipid metabolisms, fatty acid elongation in mitochondria, glycerophospholipid metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, pyrimidine metabolism were demonstrated responsible for the efficacy of SCG in treating CILI. CONCLUSION In sum up, SCG has been indicated favorable therapeutic effect on Con A induced liver injury. And metabolomics could be a promising approach, which provide insights into mechanisms of SCG in treating CILI.
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- Yuxue Yang
- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China; College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Research of Infectious Diseases, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China; College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Military Hospital of China, Beijing, China.
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Wu Q, Cai C, Guo P, Chen M, Wu X, Zhou J, Luo Y, Zou Y, Liu AL, Wang Q, Kuang Z, Fang J. In silico Identification and Mechanism Exploration of Hepatotoxic Ingredients in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:458. [PMID: 31130860 PMCID: PMC6509242 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS Recently, a growing number of hepatotoxicity cases aroused by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have been reported, causing increasing concern. To date, the reported predictive models for drug induced liver injury show low prediction accuracy and there are still no related reports for hepatotoxicity evaluation of TCM systematically. Additionally, the mechanism of herb induced liver injury (HILI) still remains unknown. The aim of the study was to identify potential hepatotoxic ingredients in TCM and explore the molecular mechanism of TCM against HILI. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we developed consensus models for HILI prediction by integrating the best single classifiers. The consensus model with best performance was applied to identify the potential hepatotoxic ingredients from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology database (TCMSP). Systems pharmacology analyses, including multiple network construction and KEGG pathway enrichment, were performed to further explore the hepatotoxicity mechanism of TCM. RESULTS 16 single classifiers were built by combining four machine learning methods with four different sets of fingerprints. After systematic evaluation, the best four single classifiers were selected, which achieved a Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) value of 0.702, 0.691, 0.659, and 0.717, respectively. To improve the predictive capacity of single models, consensus prediction method was used to integrate the best four single classifiers. Results showed that the consensus model C-3 (MCC = 0.78) outperformed the four single classifiers and other consensus models. Subsequently, 5,666 potential hepatotoxic compounds were identified by C-3 model. We integrated the top 10 hepatotoxic herbs and discussed the hepatotoxicity mechanism of TCM via systems pharmacology approach. Finally, Chaihu was selected as the case study for exploring the molecular mechanism of hepatotoxicity. CONCLUSION Overall, this study provides a high accurate approach to predict HILI and an in silico perspective into understanding the hepatotoxicity mechanism of TCM, which might facilitate the discovery and development of new drugs.
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- Qihui Wu
- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
- Clinical Research Laboratory, Hainan Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Haikou, China
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
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Chen Z, Zhu Y, Zhao Y, Ma X, Niu M, Wang J, Su H, Wang R, Li J, Liu L, Wei Z, Zhao Q, Chen H, Xiao X. Serum Metabolomic Profiling in a Rat Model Reveals Protective Function of Paeoniflorin Against ANIT Induced Cholestasis. Phytother Res 2016; 30:654-62. [PMID: 26806614 DOI: 10.1002/ptr.5575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Revised: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cholestasis is a leading cause of hepatic accumulation of bile acids resulting in liver injury, fibrosis, and liver failure. Paeoniflorin displays bright prospects in liver protective effect. However, its molecular mechanism has not been well-explored. This study was designed to assess the effects and possible mechanisms of paeoniflorin against alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate-induced liver injury. Ultraperformance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight combined with principle component analysis and partial least squares discriminant analysis were integrated to obtain differentiating metabolites for the pathways and clarify mechanisms of disease. The results indicated that paeoniflorin could remarkably downregulate serum biochemical indexes and alleviate the histological damage of liver tissue. Different expression of 14 metabolites demonstrated that paeoniflorin mainly regulated the dysfunctions of glycerophospholipid metabolism and primary bile acid biosynthesis. Moreover, several pathways such as arginine and proline metabolism, ether lipid metabolism, and arachidonic acid metabolism were also related to the efficacy. In conclusion, paeoniflorin has indicated favorable pharmacological effect on serum biochemical indexes and pathological observation on cholestatic model. And metabolomics is a promising approach to unraveling hepatoprotective effects by partially regulating the perturbed pathways, which provide insights into mechanisms of cholestasis.
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- Zhe Chen
- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China.,College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 611137, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China.,College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 611137, China
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- China Military Institute of Chinese Medicine, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- China Military Institute of Chinese Medicine, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Liver Failure Treatment and Research Center, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Integrative Medical Center, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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- China Military Institute of Chinese Medicine, 302 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, 100039, China
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High-content screening imaging and real-time cellular impedance monitoring for the assessment of chemical’s bio-activation with regards hepatotoxicity. Toxicol In Vitro 2015; 29:1916-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2015.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Systems biology and synthetic biology are emerging disciplines which are becoming increasingly utilised in several areas of bioscience. Toxicology is beginning to benefit from systems biology and we suggest in the future that is will also benefit from synthetic biology. Thus, a new era is on the horizon. This review illustrates how a suite of innovative techniques and tools can be applied to understanding complex health and toxicology issues. We review limitations confronted by the traditional computational approaches to toxicology and epidemiology research, using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their effects on adverse birth outcomes as an illustrative example. We introduce how systems toxicology (and their subdisciplines, genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic toxicology) will help to overcome such limitations. In particular, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of mathematical frameworks that computationally represent biological systems. Finally, we discuss the nascent discipline of synthetic biology and highlight relevant toxicological centred applications of this technique, including improvements in personalised medicine. We conclude this review by presenting a number of opportunities and challenges that could shape the future of these rapidly evolving disciplines.
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Metabonomics Study on Root Exudates of Cadmium Hyperaccumulator Sedum Alfredii. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2040(15)60795-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ji C, Zheng J, Tong W, Lu X, Fan X, Gao Y. Revealing the mechanism of Fructus meliae toosendan-induced liver injury in mice by integrating microRNA and mRNA-based toxicogenomics data. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra10112c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Fructus meliae toosendan-induced liver injury in mice was investigated by integrating the data from miroRNA and mRNA expression profiles combined with the general toxicological assessments method.
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- Cai Ji
- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310058
- China
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine
- Beijing 100850
- China
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