Experiment 959875
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Tripterygium wilfordii (CELASTRACEAE) |
| Citation | LI,LS:. (1989). AN OVERVIEW OF NEPHROLOGY IN CHINA.. 102(7) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A REVIEW OF USE OF THE TITLE PLANT IN CHINA FOR GLOMERULAR DISEASES. IT HAS PROVED TO BE EFFECTIVE IN TREATING LIPOID NEPHROSIS, LUPUS NEPHRITIS AND HSP NEPHRITIS, BUT INEFFECTIVE IN FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS OR MESANGIOCAPILLARY GN. THE CLINICAL EFFECT OF THE TITLE PLANT IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THAT OF STEROIDS AND CAN BE FURTHER STRENGTHENED BY THE LATTER, BUT IT DOES NOT POSSESS THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF STEROIDS. NOW IT IS WIDELY USED IN CHINA AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR OR SUPPLEMENT TO STEROIDS TO TREAT MANY KINDS OF GLOMERULAR DISEASES. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | CHROMATOGRAPHIC FRACTION |