Effects of Zaizhang-I, a traditional chinese herbal medicine, on hematopoietic recovery from radiation injury in mice

Abstract

Effects of Zaizhang-I (ZZ-I) on the recovery of hemopoietic systems from radiation injury were investigated. Mice, irradiated with 6. 0 Gy-rays, were injected i. p. once daily for 7 consecutive days with either ZZ-I or saline (0.01 ml/g body wt.). The experiments showed that ZZ-I significantly promoted the recovery of not only peripheral WBC. BMC, CFU-S and CFU-GM but also the abnormal femur micro-vessel system such as blood vessels and sinus ectasia, hyperemia and hemorrhage etc. These results suggest that ZZ-I could accelerate hemopoietic recovery from radiation injury in mice by stimulating hemopoietic stem cells and improving hemopoietic inductive microenvironment (HIM).

Keywords

Zaizhang-I / radiation injury

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