Vaccination is a major achievement that has become an effective prevention strategy against infectious diseases and active control of emerging pathogens worldwide.In response to the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)p...Vaccination is a major achievement that has become an effective prevention strategy against infectious diseases and active control of emerging pathogens worldwide.In response to the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic,several diverse vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have been developed and deployed for use in a large number of individuals,and have been reported to protect against symptomatic COVID-19 cases and deaths.However,the application of vaccines has a series of limitations,including protective failure for variants of concern,unavailability of individuals due to immune deficiency,and the disappearance of immune protection for increasing infections in vaccinated individuals.These aspects raise the question of how to modulate the immune system that contributes to the COVID-19 vaccine protective effects.Herbal medicines are widely used for their immune regulatory abilities in clinics.More attractively,herbal medicines have been well accepted for their positive role in the COVID-19 prevention and suppression through regulation of the immune system.This review presents a brief overview of the strategy of COVID-19 vaccination and the response of the immune system to vaccines,the regulatory effects and mechanisms of herbal medicine in immune-related macrophages,natural killer cells,dendritic cells,and lymphocytes T and B cells,and how they help vaccines work.Later in the article,the potential role and application of herbal medicines in the most recent COVID-19 vaccination are discussed.This article provides new insights into herbal medicines as promising alternative supplements that may benefit from COVID-19 vaccination.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(82074105)National Key Research and Development Project of China(2021YFC1712904)Science and Technology Program of Tianjin(22ZXGBSY00020,21ZYJDJC00070).
文摘良性前列腺增生(Benign prostatic hyperplasia,BPH)是老年男性常见的泌尿系统疾病。体内包括睾酮(testosterone,T)和双氢睾酮(dihydrotestosterone,DHT)在内的雄激素水平升高,与BPH的发生和发展密切相关。目前,临床上治疗BPH的药物主要包括5α-还原酶抑制剂和α-受体阻滞剂两种类型,在降低异常雄激素信号通路水平的同时,也会带来一些不可忽视的副作用。最近,多种天然草药,如补阳类的中药(traditional Chinese medicine,TCM),被证实具有雄激素样的活性能有效治疗BPH。本文综述了植物雄激素的雄激素活性及其在BPH中的治疗作用,进一步总结其作用机制,为植物雄激素作为选择性雄激素受体调节剂的研究提供了证据。
基金supported by the Science and Technology Project of Tianjin(22ZXGBSY00020 and 21ZYJFJC0070National Key Research and Development Project of China(2021YFC1712904)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82074105).
基金This work was supported by the Science and Technology Project of Tianjin(22ZXGBSY00020,22ZYJDSS00080 and 21ZYJFJC0070)National Key Research and Development Project of China(No.2021YFC1712904).
文摘Vaccination is a major achievement that has become an effective prevention strategy against infectious diseases and active control of emerging pathogens worldwide.In response to the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic,several diverse vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have been developed and deployed for use in a large number of individuals,and have been reported to protect against symptomatic COVID-19 cases and deaths.However,the application of vaccines has a series of limitations,including protective failure for variants of concern,unavailability of individuals due to immune deficiency,and the disappearance of immune protection for increasing infections in vaccinated individuals.These aspects raise the question of how to modulate the immune system that contributes to the COVID-19 vaccine protective effects.Herbal medicines are widely used for their immune regulatory abilities in clinics.More attractively,herbal medicines have been well accepted for their positive role in the COVID-19 prevention and suppression through regulation of the immune system.This review presents a brief overview of the strategy of COVID-19 vaccination and the response of the immune system to vaccines,the regulatory effects and mechanisms of herbal medicine in immune-related macrophages,natural killer cells,dendritic cells,and lymphocytes T and B cells,and how they help vaccines work.Later in the article,the potential role and application of herbal medicines in the most recent COVID-19 vaccination are discussed.This article provides new insights into herbal medicines as promising alternative supplements that may benefit from COVID-19 vaccination.
