[Experimental study of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of vascular dementia].

Abstract

To explore the new progress of the experimental study of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of vascular. Consulted the relevant papers and integrated the elementary theory, we summarized the virtue of Chinese medicine in the treatment of vascular dementia and insufficient and future development of the experimental study of it. It was confirmed that the traditional Chinese medicine has a lot of target spots in the brain and less ill-effect, it could ameliorate several phenotypes of pathophysiology of vascular dementia and improve the ability of learning and memory of animals with vascular dementia.

• Authors: Ying-jie Shen, Chang-yu Li
• Journal: Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica (Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi) Vol. 30 Issue 10 Pg. 725-8 (May 2005) ISSN: 1001-5302 [Print] China
• PMID: 16075705 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)

Chemical References

• Drugs, Chinese Herbal
• Endothelin-1
• Excitatory Amino Acids
• Free Radicals
• Neuroprotective Agents
• Glutamic Acid
• Nitric Oxide Synthase

Topics

• Animals
• Apoptosis (drug effects)
• Dementia, Vascular (drug therapy, metabolism, psychology)
• Drugs, Chinese Herbal (isolation & purification, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Endothelin-1 (metabolism)
• Excitatory Amino Acids (metabolism)
• Free Radicals (metabolism)
• Glutamic Acid (metabolism)
• Learning (drug effects)
• Memory (drug effects)
• Neuroprotective Agents (therapeutic use)
• Nitric Oxide Synthase (metabolism)
• Phytotherapy
• Plants, Medicinal (chemistry)