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. 2014 Aug 15;7(9):6179-85.
eCollection 2014.

Hemopoietic effect of extracts from constituent herbal medicines of Samul-tang on phenylhydrazine-induced hemolytic anemia in rats

Hye Won Lee  1 , Hyojun Kim  1 , Jin Ah Ryuk  1 , Ki-Jung Kil  2 , Byoung Seob Ko  1
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Hemopoietic effect of extracts from constituent herbal medicines of Samul-tang on phenylhydrazine-induced hemolytic anemia in rats

Hye Won Lee et al. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. .

Abstract

Samul-tang (Si-Wu-Tang, SMT), a kind of herbal medicines, has been used for the hemato-deficient disease for hundreds of years. In this work, investigate the anti-anemia activity of the H2O extracts from constituent herbal medicines of Samul-tang in an anemia model induced by intravenous infection of phenylhydrazine-HCL (PHZ) at 10 mg/kg for 4 days. After PHZ injection, female Sparague-Dawley rats were administrated extracts from constituent herbal medicines of SMT (300 mg/kg/day, p.o.) daily for 1 week. Results showed that sever hemolysis was induced by PHZ. For Paeonia lactiflora (PL2) H2O extract treated groups, the concentration of hemoglobin, hematocrit and red blood cells number increased much more significantly than PHZ-treated group. Moreover, Angelica gigas (AG), Angelica. acutiloba (AA), Paeonia lactiflora (PL2) and Rehmannia glutinosa (RG) extract administration significantly improved serum erythropoietin concentration. The activity of aminolevulinic acid dehydrates (ALDL) in liver homegenate was increased in Angelica gigas(AA), Paeonia lactiflora (PL2) and Rehmannia glutinosa (RG) treated group.

Keywords: SMT); Samul-tang (Si-Wu-Tang; anemia; hematocrit; hemoglobin; herbal medicine; phenylhydrazine-HCL (PHZ).

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Figure 1
Effect of Samul-tang extracts on hemoglobin and hematocrit in whole blood PHZ-induced hemolytic anemia rats. #P < 0.05, ##P < 0.01, ###P < 0.001, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, #significantly different from normal control, *significantly different from negative control. Results are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 5).
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Figure 2
Effect of Samultang extracts on erythropoietin and δ-ALDL in PHZ-induced hemolytic anemia rats #P < 0.05, ##P < 0.01, ###P < 0.001, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, #significantly different from normal control, *significantly different from negative control. Results are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 5).
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