Changes of Serum Lysine and -cryptoxanthin in Patients with Hepatorenal Deficiency Type Knee Osteoarthritis Treated with Duhuo Jisheng Tang and Its Correlation with Pain
RONG Bing, JIA Jun, LI Jian, et al. Changes of Serum Lysine and -cryptoxanthin in Patients with Hepatorenal Deficiency Type Knee Osteoarthritis Treated with Duhuo Jisheng Tang and Its Correlation with Pain[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(18): 159-163.
RONG Bing, JIA Jun, LI Jian, et al. Changes of Serum Lysine and -cryptoxanthin in Patients with Hepatorenal Deficiency Type Knee Osteoarthritis Treated with Duhuo Jisheng Tang and Its Correlation with Pain[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(18): 159-163. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20181122.
Objective: To observe the changes of serum lysine and β-cryptoxantin in patients with hepatorenal deficiency type knee osteoarthritis treated with Duhuo Jisheng Tang and its correlation with pain. Method: Totally 73 KOA patients diagnosed at the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine were randomly divided into observation group (42 cases) and control group (31 cases). The observation group was orally given Duhuo Jisheng Tang
150 mL/times
2 times/d
while the control group was orally given glucosamine sulfate
0.5 g/times
3 times/d. Both groups were treated for 4 weeks. The knee joint visual analogue scale (VAS) and tenderness value were used to evaluate the changes of pain before and after treatment. Serum levels of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)
substance P (SP)
dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The content of lysine was detected by automatic amino acid analyzer
and the content of serum β-cryptoxantin was determined by HPLC. Pearson correlation test was used to analyze the correlation between lysine
β-cryptoxanthin and VAS scores
tenderness value
PGE2
SP
DA and 5-HT. Result: Compared with before treatment
patients in control group and observation group after treatment had higher VAS scores and lower tenderness (P<0.05). After treatment
the VAS score of the observation group was higher
and the pain value was lower than that of control group (P<0.05). Compared with before treatment
the levels of PGE2
SP
DA and 5-HT in control group and observation group decreased after treatment.Compared with control group
the serum levels of PGE2
SP
DA and 5-HT in observation group decreased significantly (P<0.05) after treatment. The serum levels of lysine and β-cryptoxanthin in the control group had no significant changes before and after treatment. The serum levels of lysine and β-cryptoxanthin in the observation group were significantly higher than those before treatment (P<0.05). Serum lysine and β-cryptoxanthin were positively correlated with tenderness before and after treatment in both groups (P<0.05)
but negatively correlated with VAS
PGE2
SP
DA and 5-HT (P<0.05). Conclusion: Duhuo Jisheng Tang can significantly relieve the pain in treatment of KOA
which may be related to the increase of contents of lysine and β-cryptoxanthin.