SHE Kaijie,YANG Jingwen,MENG Danhua,et al.Molecular Mechanism of Erxian Decoction in Treatment of Anxiety Disorder Based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2022,28(19):185-193.
SHE Kaijie,YANG Jingwen,MENG Danhua,et al.Molecular Mechanism of Erxian Decoction in Treatment of Anxiety Disorder Based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2022,28(19):185-193. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20221218.
Molecular Mechanism of Erxian Decoction in Treatment of Anxiety Disorder Based on Network Pharmacology and Experimental Verification增强出版
To predict the potential molecular mechanism of Erxian decoction in the treatment of anxiety disorder based on network pharmacology, and to verify the efficacy and mechanism using the animal model of maternal separation combined with restraint stress.
Method
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Active components and related targets of Erxian decoction were obtained by traditional Chinese medicine system pharmacology database and analysis platform (TCMSP) and SwissTargetPrediction. The targets related to anxiety disorder were screened out through GeneCards, therapeutic target database (TTD), online mendelian inheritance in man database (OMIM), and DrugBank, and the drug-disease intersection targets were obtained by taking intersections with the drug targets. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed by the STRING database, and the core targets were screened out based on topological parameter analysis. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis were carried out for the intersection targets through the Metascape platform. Maternal separation combined with restraint stress was used to induce the mouse model of anxiety disorder. From the end of lactation on the 21st postnatal day (PD21) to the completion of restraint stress on the 97
th
postnatal day (PD97), the mice were fed with Erxian decoction mixed with diet. The anxiety state of mice was evaluated by open field test and elevated O-maze test. The content of plasma corticosterone (CORT) in mice was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The expression levels of protein kinase B (Akt1), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), postsynaptic density-95 (PSD95), and synaptophysin in the hippocampus of mice were detected by Western blot and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Real-time PCR).
Result
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Ninty-seven active components and 227 action targets of Erxian decoction were obtained. There were 3 863 targets related to anxiety disorder, with 161 drug-disease intersection targets. Among these intersection targets, core targets such as Akt1, interleukin-1
β
(IL-1
β
), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and mTOR were presumedly closely related to anxiety disorder. The results of KEGG pathway analysis showed that Erxian decoction mainly treated anxiety disorder through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction signaling pathways. The results of animal experiments showed that compared with the model group, the Erxian decoction group significantly increased the time of mice spent in the central zone and central crossing times and time spent in the opened arm and opened arm crossing times, with significantly increased expression levels of p-Akt1, p-mTOR, BDNF, PSD95, and synaptophysin (Syp).
Conclusion
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Erxian decoction has the multi-target and multi-pathway characteristics in the treatment of anxiety disorder, and its mechanism may be related to the improvement of synaptic plasticity and neuroinflammation by affecting Akt1, IL-1
β
, IL-6, TNF, mTOR, and other core targets and modulating PI3K/Akt, MAPK, as well as neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction signal pathways.
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