Protection Effect of Qiwei Jingganling on Carbon Tetrachloride-induced Acute Liver Injury in Mice

[Objectives] The aim was to study the protection effect of Qiwei Jingganling on carbon tetrachloride-induced acute liver injury in mice and its mechanism of action. [Methods]Total 60 mice were randomly and evenly divided into 6 groups,normal group,model group,silymarin group( 150 mg/kg),high-dose Qiwei Jingganling group( 8 g/kg,crude drug),middle-dose Qiwei Jingganling group( 4 g/kg,crude drug) and low-dose Qiwei Jingganling group( 2 g/kg,crude drug). The mice were administered orally once a day according to the amount of10 m L/kg,and 10-day continuous administration was carried out. After 2 h of the last administration,0. 12% CCl4 peanut oil solution( 10 m L/kg) was injected intraperitoneally to all the mice except those in the normal group to establish acute liver injury model. After 16 h,the blood of the mice was collected from the eyeballs,and their liver tissues were collected. The levels of alanine aminotransferase( ALT),aspartate aminotransferase( AST),superoxide dismutase( SOD),malondialdehyde( MDA) and glutathione peroxidase( GSH-Px) in the sera were determined by biochemical methods,and the contents of tumor necrosis factor-α( TNF-α),interleukin-1β( IL-1β) and interleukin-6( IL-6) in the liver tissues were determined with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays( ELISA). [Results]Qiwei Jingganling significantly reduced the activities or content of ALT,AST and MDA in serum of mice with liver injury( P < 0. 05,P < 0. 01),increased the activities of SPD and GSH-Px( P < 0. 05,P < 0. 01) and down-regulated the expression levels of IL-1β,IL-6 and TNF-α in liver tissue( P < 0. 05,P < 0. 01).[Conclusions]Qiwei Jingganling has a good protection effect on CCl4-induced acute liver injury in mice,which may be related to the inhibition of oxidative stress and inhibition of inflammatory responses.