Chinese Journal of Pharmacovigilance ›› 2016, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 201-205.

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Comparison between Water and Ethanol Extracts of Xianlinggubao for Effects on Hepatic Mitochondria

QI Xin-ming, REN Jin   

  1. Center for Drug Safety Evaluation and Research,State Key Lab of New Medicine Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai 201203, China
  • Received:2015-11-17 Revised:2016-06-30 Online:2016-04-20 Published:2016-06-30

Abstract: Objective To investigate whether XLGB can result in liver injury through the change of mitochondrial function index.Methods Primary hepatocytes isolated from SD rat were treated with serial dilution (1/10~1/10000) of XLGB ethanol and water extracts for 24 h. Cellular ATP content,mitochondria membrane potential (MMP) and accumulation of fluorescent probe (TMRE) in mitochondria were used to compare and evaluate the potential liver injury induced by two extracts of XLGB.Results Only 1/10 dilution of water and ethanol extracts obviously decreased cellular ATP content and MMP in rat primary hepatocytes. Serial dilution of Ethanol extracts (1/10~1/10000) dose-dependently reduced the accumulation of TMRE in the mitochondria, while only 1/10 and 1/100 dilution of water extracts induced moderate reduction of TMRE accumulation. Conclusion In this study, ethanol extracts induced more obvious mitochondrial injury than water extracts, the latter is closer to the route of XLGB administration in human. In the serial tests of water extracts, the change of mitochondrial function was only induced by 1/10 dilution (about 50-fold clinical exposure in human), indicating that XLGB may have a wide therapeutic window in clinical use.

Key words: xianlinggubao, water extracts, ethanol extracts, liver injury, rat primary hepatocyte, mitochondria

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