Keywords
Chinese medicine
Tetramethylpyrazine
Mechanism of action
Research progress
Submitted : 2024-06-18
Accepted : 2024-07-03
Published : 2024-07-18
Abstract
Atherosclerosis is a chronic vascular disease and the most common pathological change of cardiovascular disease. Its pathogenesis is closely related to inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid accumulation, and calcinosis. Tetramethylpyrazine plays an anti-atherosclerotic role by regulating lipid metabolism, inhibiting foam cell formation, alleviating inflammation, inhibiting vascular calcification and abnormal platelet activation, and has a cardiovascular protective effect. Therefore, this paper summarized the research progress of the anti-atherosclerosis effect and mechanism of tetramethylpyrazine.
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