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| Effect of Huangqin Qingre Chubi Capsule on Bone Metabolism and Serum TLR4NF-kB in Rats with Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| LIN Mei-ling, ZHENG Ting-ting |
| Longyan First Affiliated Hospital to Fujian Medical University, Longyan Fujian 364000, China |
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Abstract Objective: To elucidate the effects of Huangqin Qingre Chubi capsule(HQC) on bone metabolism and serum TLR4 and NF-kB in rats with rheumatoid arthritis(RA), and to provide experimental bases for the treatment of RA with HQC. Methods: A total of 40 SD rats were randomly divided into the normal group, model group, western medicine treatment group, and HQC group, with 10 rats in each group, and the RA model was induced by complete adjuvant in all groups except the normal group. After successful modeling, they were treated for 4 weeks to compare the degree of joint swelling; meanwhile, micro-CT was used to evaluate bone microstructural parameters, and changes in serum TLR4 and NF-kB expression levels were detected by ELISA. Results: There was no statistical significance in comparing the degree of joint swelling among the model group, western medicine treatment group and HQC group (P>0.05); Micro-CT results showed that bone microstructural parameters deteriorated in the osteoporosis model group compared with the normal group. Both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine HQC could improve the bone microjunction of RA rats, and the HQC group was better than the western medicine treatment in improving the number of bone trabeculae (2.58±0.19)·mm-1; the serum results showed that RA was accompanied by the up-regulation of the expression of TLR4 and NF-kB. Both western drugs and HQC down-regulated the high expression of serum TLR4 and NF-kB in osteoporotic rats, and the down-regulation of serum TLR4 (9.90±0.55) ng·ml-1 and NF-kB(350.29±3.14) ng·L-1 by HQC was more obvious. Conclusion: Chinese herbal medicine HQC can significantly improve the bone microstructure of RA rats, and its effect is better than that of western medicine in some aspects.The mechanism of action of HQC is related to the inhibition of the activation of the TLR4/NF-kB pathway, and this study provides an experimental basis for the further development and utilization of HQC.
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Received: 23 July 2023
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Corresponding Authors:
ZHENG Ting-ting. E-mail: 84561646@qq.com
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