To Optimize the Therapeutic Dose and Time Window of Picroside
II in Cerebral Ischemic Injury in Rats by Orthogonal Test
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gesting a protective role of picroside II on both ische-
mic brain tissue and blood brain barrier.
This experiment was a [L16(45)] orthogonal experi-
ment design, in which four time points of 1 h, 1.5 h, 2 h
and 2.5 h after brain ischemia were set and four levels of
picroside II dose were given (5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg
and 40 mg/kg). The expressions of NSE, S100B and
MBP in serum were measured, and the optimal therapeu-
tic dosage and time window of picroside II were analysed.
These results showed that there was a significant differ-
ence for the therapeutic effects of picroside II in admini-
stration time and the dose. From the principle of the low-
est therapeutic dose with the longest time window, A2B3
was the optimal combination and the best treatment time
window and dose were ischemia for 1.5 h and intraperi-
toneal injection of 20 mg/kg. For the mechanism of cere-
bral ischemic injury was very complicated, only four
indexes, as mentioned here, were observed in this study,
which must bring some variances. Therefore, the exact
mechanism and optimal therapeutic time window and
dosage of picroside II should be evaluated combined
with other detection indexes.
5. Acknowledgements
This study was supported by grant-in-aids for The Na-
tional Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 8104
1092, 81274116).
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