Research progress on intervention of traditional Chinese medicine on coronary heart disease through NF-κB signal transduction pathway / 中草药

ABSTRACT

NF-κB plays an important regulatory role in many physiological and pathological processes and an important transcription factors in inflammation, immune responses, cell apoptosis and proliferation. In recent years, the effect of NF-κB in coronary heart disease's occurrence and development has been paid much more attention to. This paper mainly reviews the relationship between NF-κB signaling pathways and development of coronary heart disease, as well as the intervention of traditional Chinese medicine.