WANG Wenru,DING Xiaoqing,YANG Xiupeng,et al.Bushen Jianpi Prescription Regulates Autophagy in Patients with Aplastic Anemia[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2023,29(14):80-87.
WANG Wenru,DING Xiaoqing,YANG Xiupeng,et al.Bushen Jianpi Prescription Regulates Autophagy in Patients with Aplastic Anemia[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2023,29(14):80-87. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20231190.
Bushen Jianpi Prescription Regulates Autophagy in Patients with Aplastic Anemia
To explore the effects of Bushen Jianpi prescription on the autophagy and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/protein kinase B/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/Akt/mTOR) signaling pathway in the patients with aplastic anemia (AA).
Method
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A total of 30 AA patients admitted to Xiyuan Hospital and 6 healthy donors who were prepared to undergo peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in 304 Hospital from September 2020 to August 2021 were enrolled and assigned into an AA group and a control group. The AA group was treated with Bushen Jianpi prescription combined with cyclosporin A (CsA) and androgen for 3 months. The mononuclear cells from bone marrow in the AA group before and after treatment and the peripheral blood of the control group were collected. Transmission electron microscopy was then employed to detect autophagosomes. Western blotting was employed to determine the protein levels of microtuble-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)Ⅰ, LC3Ⅱ, mTOR, phosphorylated (p)-mTOR, Akt, p-Akt, PI3K, and p-PI3K, and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the mRNA levels of LC3, mTOR, Akt, and PI3K.
Result
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In the AA group, the treatment was completed in 29 patients, and the total response rate was 51.72% (15/29). ① The AA group showed lower levels of white blood cell (WBC), hemoglobin (HGB), platelet (PLT), and absolute neutrophil count (ANC) in the peripheral blood (
P
<
0.01) and lower number of intracellular autophagosomes than the control group before treatment. Moreover, the AA group showed lower mRNA level of LC3 (
P
<
0.01) and protein levels of LC3Ⅰ and LC3Ⅱ (
P
<
0.01) and higher mRNA levels of mTOR, Akt, and PI3K
α
(
P
<
0.01) and protein levels of Akt, p-Akt, PI3K, p-PI3K, mTOR, and p-mTOR (
P
<
0.01) than the control group. ② In AA group, the levels of HGB and PLT elevated (
P
<
0.05) and the number of intracellular autophagosomes increased after treatment compared with those before treatment. Moreover, the mRNA level of LC3 and the protein levels of LC3Ⅰ and LC3Ⅱ were up-regulated (
P
<
0.01), the mRNA levels of mTOR, Akt, and PI3Kα (
P
<
0.01) and the protein levels of Akt, p-PI3K (
P
<
0.01), p-Akt, PI3K, mTOR, p-mTOR (
P
<
0.05) were down-regulated after treatment.
Conclusion
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AA patients show lower autophagy levels, while Bushen Jianpi prescription can effectively improve the autophagy level and down-regulated the expression of PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway in AA patients.
aplastic anemiaBushen Jianpi prescriptionautophagyphosphatidylinositol-3-kinases/protein kinase B/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/Akt/mTOR) signaling pathwayclinical research
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