Sho-saiko-to and Saiko-keisi-to, the traditional Chinese and Japanese herbal medicines, altered hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes in mice and rats when administered orally for a long time

  • Nose M
  • Tamura M
  • Ryu N
  • et al.
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Abstract

As the consumption of herbal remedies has increased, the opportunity that such herbal medicines are co-administered with other drugs has also risen gradually and we are, therefore, very much concerned about herb–drug interactions. We examined the effects of pre-administration of Kampo medicines (Sho-saiko-to, Saiko-keishi-to, Shigyaku-san and Dai-saiko-to) on the pentobarbital-induced sleeping time in mice and rats, to clarify the possibility that they could affect the drug-metabolizing enzymes. The administration of Sho-saiko-to and Saiko-keishi-to for 4 weeks significantly shortened the pentobarbital-induced sleeping time in mice and the administration of Sho-saiko-to for 2 weeks significantly reduced the sleeping time in rats. Furthermore, we tried to identify the molecular species of rat cytochrome P450s (CYPs) affected by Sho-saiko-to and Saiko-keishi-to by competitive RT-PCR. The oral administration of Sho-saiko-to for 2 weeks up-regulated the mRNA expression of CYP2B, CYP3A1, CYP2E1 and CYP4A1 in rats. The treatment with Saiko-keishi-to for 2 weeks also up-regulated the mRNA expression of CYP2B, CYP3A1 and CYP4A1. Sho-saiko-to and Saiko-keishi-to may potentially influence the drug-metabolizing enzymes in man, and would thus require much attention when used in the clinical situation.

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Nose, M., Tamura, M., Ryu, N., Mizukami, H., & Ogihara, Y. (2010). Sho-saiko-to and Saiko-keisi-to, the traditional Chinese and Japanese herbal medicines, altered hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes in mice and rats when administered orally for a long time. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 55(10), 1419–1426. https://doi.org/10.1211/0022357021873

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