Study on Effects of Pingan Prescription on Frontal Cortex of SHR with 1H-NMR-based Metabolic Technology / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

This article applied 1H-NMR-based metabolic technology combined with pattern recognition method to study metabolic changes of brain frontal cortex among spontaneously hypertensive rats ( SHR ) and evaluate Pingan prescription treatment effect . It was aimed to explore the valuable information between hypertension and brain damage in order to provide a scientific basis for the mechanism of Pingan prescription . Rats were ran-domly divided into four groups , which were the normal control group , hypertension model group , captopril group and the Pinggan prescription group . Medications were administered continuously for 14 days . Then , the frontal lobe tissues of rats in each group were removed . The 1H-NMR based metabolic technology combined with pattern recognition method were used in the detection and analysis of frontal lobe tissues of rats from four group in order to find characteristic metabolites . The results of the principal components analysis ( PCA ) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) showed that captopril group and Pinggan prescription group were significantly different from the hypertension model group . And the classification tendency of rat sam-ples from the Pinggan prescription group and the captopril group were obvious , which suggested that Pinggan prescription can obviously improve the rat's overall metabolism. The four metabolites were identified as glucose, galactose , dopamine and succinic acid . It was concluded that hypertension damaging frontal tissues may mainly express in energy metabolism and nerve damage . And Pinggan prescription can effectively reduce blood pressure and relieve metabolic abnormalities due to disease through the influence on its metabolites .