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OBJECTIVE To investigate the improvement effects of Arisaema Cum Bile on Parkinson’s disease （PD） model mice and its potential mechanism. METHODS Sixty male C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into normal group， model group， Arisaema Cum Bile low-dose group [0.39 g/（kg·d）]， Arisaema Cum Bile high-dose group [1.56 g/（kg·d）] and positive control drug Levodopa tablet group [80 mg/（kg·d）]， with 12 mice in each group. Except that normal group was given constant volume of normal saline， other groups were given 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1，2，3，6-tetrahydropyridine [MPTP，35 mg/（kg·d）] intraperitoneally for 5 consecutive days to induce subacute PD model； after modeling， they were given relevant medicine continuously for 7 d； rod climbing test and line suspension test were performed 1 d before modeling， on the 5th day of modeling and after the last medication. The number of tyrosine hydroxylase （TH）-positive neurons in the substantia nigra of mice were measured by immunofluorescence； the levels of interleukin 1β （IL-1β） and tumor necrosis factor α（ TNF-α） in serum and the levels of IL- E-mail：qhwang668@sina.com 1β， TNF-α， cyclooxygenase-2 （COX-2） and inducible nitric oxide synthase （iNOS） in the substantia nigra of mice were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The expression levels of cAMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit α （PKA C-α）， glutathione peroxidase 4 （GPX4） and ferritin heavy chain polypeptide 1 （FTH1） proteins in the substantia nigra of mice was measured by Western blot. RESULTS After last medicine， compared with the normal group， mice in the model group had significantly longer pole-climbing time （P＜0.01）， significantly lower line suspension scores （P＜0.01）， significantly fewer TH-positive neurons in the substantia nigra （P＜0.01）， significantly higher serum concentrations of IL-1β and TNF-α and nigrostriatal concentrations of IL-1β， TNF-α， COX-2 and iNOS （P＜0.01）， while lower protein expression levels of GPX4， PKA C-α and FTH1 in the substantia nigra （P＜0.05 or P＜0.01）. Compared with the model group， the above indexes of mice were significantly returned in Arisaema Cum Bile high-dose group （P＜0.05 or P＜ 0.01）. CONCLUSIONS Arisaema Cum Bile can improve motor impairment and reduce apoptosis of nigrostriatal TH neurons in MPTP-induced PD mice， and has neuroprotective effects on model mice； this may be related to its inhibition of neuroinflammation and the inhibition of ferroptosis by up-regulating PKA signaling pathway.
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OBJECTIV E To establish the method for evaluating the quality o f Plantago asi atica and fried P. asiatica . METHODS The fingerprints of 15 batches of P. asiatica and 15 batches of fried P. asiatica were established by HPLC. The common peaks were identified with the Similarity Evaluation System for Chromatographic Fingerprinting of TCM （2012 edition）， and similarity evaluation was performed. Analysis of chemical pattern recognition was performed by using SPSS 25.0 and SIMCA-P 14.1 software（cluster analysis ，principal component analysis and orthogonal partial least squares regression analysis ）. The markers which affected the difference in the quality between P. asiatica and fried P. asiatica were screened with variable importance projection（VIP）value greater than 1. RESULTS There were 18 common peaks in the fingerprints of 15 batches of P. asiatica and 13 common peaks in the fingerprints of 15 batches of fried P. asiatica . A total of 8 common peaks were found in both of them. Their similarities were greater than 0.920. Two common peaks were identified as geniposidic acid ，acteoside. The results of cluster analysis showed that when the spacing was 10，the 30 batches of samples could be clustered into three categories ，with S 1-S5 as one，S16-S20 as one ，S6-S15 and S 21-S30 as one . The results of the pri ncipal component analysis showed that the cumulative variance contribution rate of the first two principal components was 82.575％ . The results of the orthogonal partial least squares regression analysis showed that the VIP values of the three common peaks were greater than 1，namely peak E（acteoside）， peak D （geniposidic acid ） and peak G. CONCLUSIONS Established fingerprints are stable ，simple sina.com and rapid. It can be used for the quality evaluation of P. asiatica and fried P. asiatica ，by combining with analysis of chemical pattern recognition. Acteoside ，geniposidic acid and the component represented by peak G may be the markers affecting the difference in quality of P. asiatica and fried P. asiatica .