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BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a serious threat to the health and quality of life in the elderly. It is important to establish an ideal experimental animal model to study the etiology and treatment of osteoporosis.OBJECTIVE: To establish a rat model of osteoporosis induced by different dosages of retinoic acid, thus selecting the optimal dosage.METHODS: Eighty female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into control, low-, middle- and high-dosage groups based on body mass (n=20 per group), The rats in the latter three groups were induced with 80, 100, and 120 mg/(kg?d) retinoic acid via gastric lavage for 14 days.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Compared with the control group, the bone mineral density, number of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, and bone microarchitecture in the low-dosage group showed no significant changes, while there were significant decrease in the serum level of calcium and bone mineral density of femur, significant increase in the number of osteoclasts at the femur and significant changes in the femoral microarchitecture in the middle- and high-dosage groups, especially in the middle-dose group. To conclude, 120 mg/(kg?d) retinoic acid via gastric lavage for 14 days can induce a stable osteoporosis model in rats.
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Objective To establish the content determination method of berberine hydrochloride in Sifangwei capsules.Methods HPLC method was used with octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica as the filler,acetonitrile-0.05 mol/L KH2PO4 solution(25∶75) as the mobile phase,detective wavelength was 230 nm.The number of theoretical plates should not be less than 3 000.Results The content determination method has a good linear relation at the range of 0.201 6～1.008 ?g(r=0.999 8).The recovery rate was 98.7%,RSD=1.24%(n=5).Conclusion The method is simple,accurate,with good separation and reproducibility,and can be used for the quality control of Sifangwei capsules.