Study on construction of rat model of acute pancreatitis with syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper was to construct a rat model of acute pancreatitis(AP) with syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation, and provide evaluation tools for pharmacodynamic research and efficacy network verification of related traditional Chinese medicine in view of the etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of AP. According to the Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment guidelines for AP with syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation, etiology, pathogenesis and clinical syndromes in TCM, Meta-analysis results, and evaluation strategy of establishing an animal model combining disease and syndrome in our laboratory, the biological surrogate outcomes suitable for the evaluation of animal models of AP with syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation were extracted then. The chronic unpredictable stress(CUS) method and chronic unpredictable stress +L-arginine(CUS +L-Arg) method were used to construct the rat model, and the above biological surrogate outcomes were used to evaluate whether an AP rat model was established. During the experiment, the weight and syndrome scores of the rats were observed and recorded. At the end of the experiment, the rats' serum, organs and tissues were collected from the operation to detect the various indicators. As compared with the normal group, the syndrome scores of the CUS group and CUS +L-Arg group were significantly increased(P<0.01); the anti-syndrome medicine Chaihu Shugan Pills could significantly reduce the syndrome scores of the two groups of rats(P<0.01), indicating that both modeling methods can replicate the syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation in the rat model. As compared with the normal group, the serum amylase(AMY) activity level was increased by 3 times in the CUS +L-Arg group(P<0.01), and the AMY activity level was also increased in CUS group, but not up to 3 times of the normal value. As compared with the normal group, the le-vels of TNF-α and IL-6 mRNA in the pancreatic tissues of the CUS +L-Arg group were significantly increased(P<0.01); the levels of TNF-α mRNA in the pancreatic tissues of the CUS group were significantly increased(P<0.05), but IL-6 mRNA level only showed a rising trend, indicating that only the CUS + L-Arg method can be used to replicate the AP damage in the disease-syndrome combination model. The CUS + L-Arg method can be used for continuous modeling for 4 weeks to establish a disease-syndrome combination model of AP rats with syndrome of liver depression and Qi stagnation. The model has the characteristics of repeatability, stability after mode-ling, low animal mortality, and similar clinical pathogenesis. It can be used for the evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine efficacy and the verification of efficacy network.