Journal: Renal Failure
Article Title: Advances in oxidative stress in pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease and efficacy of TCM intervention
doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2022.2146512
Figure Lengend Snippet: Clinical efficacy and mechanism of action of Chinese herbs and active ingredients for DKD treatment.
Article Snippet: It has been proven that Chinese herbal medicines and their bioactive ingredients, such as polyphenols (e.g., breviscapine, puerarin, resveratrol, safflower yellow, silymarin, curcumin, icariin, and tanshinone), polysaccharides (e.g., lycium barbarum polysaccharides, astragalus polysaccharides, ramulus mori polysaccharides, and Chinese Yam polysaccharides), alkaloids (e.g., berberine, tripterygium glycosides, ligustrazine, and emodin), and saponins (e.g., astragaloside and ginsenoside), can improve glucose metabolism and reduce renal pathological changes via multiple anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic pathways involved in oxidative stress, playing a nephroprotective role.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Activation Assay, Expressing, Protein-Protein interactions