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Exploration of Simiao-Yongan Decoction on knee osteoarthritis based on network pharmacology and molecular docking

Wang Y, Pan X, Wang J, Chen H, Chen L

Medicine, 2023

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Abstract

Use network pharmacology combined with molecular docking to study the effects of Simiao-Yongan Decoction (SMYAD) intervenes in Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) related targets and signaling pathways, and explores the molecular mechanism of SMYAD in treating KOA. The active ingredients and targets of SMYAD, which concluded 4 traditional Chinese medicines, were screened in TCMSP, and the related gene targets of KOA were screened in the disease databases GeneCards, MalaCards, DisGeNET, and Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, and their intersection data were obtained after integration. And used Cytoscape 3.9.1, the software topologies the network diagram of "compound-drug-active ingredient-target protein-disease." Obtains the protein-protein interaction network diagram through STRING, and enriches and analyzes the obtained core targets. Carry out molecular docking matching verification on the main active ingredients and key targets of the drug. 106 active ingredients and 175 targets were screened from SMYAD to intervene in KOA, 36 core targets were obtained through protein-protein interaction screening, and 10 key targets played an important role. The enrichment results showed that the biological process of gene ontology mainly involved positive regulation of gene expression, negative regulation of apoptosis process, and positive regulation of apoptosis process. KEGG signaling pathway mainly involves AGE-RAGE signaling pathway in diabetic complications, TNF signaling pathway,…

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