IMR Press / RCM / Volume 25 / Issue 5 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2505165
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A Review on the Natural Products in Treatment of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy (DCM)
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1 Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan Maternity and Child Care Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, 250000 Jinan, Shandong, China
2 Department of Gerontology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University (Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital), 250014 Jinan, Shandong, China
3 Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, 250012 Jinan, Shandong, China
*Correspondence: 1493@sdhospital.com.cn (Xiaoni Yang); qiaoyun@qiluhospital.com (Yun Qiao)
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2024, 25(5), 165; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2505165
Submitted: 6 November 2023 | Revised: 11 December 2023 | Accepted: 18 December 2023 | Published: 13 May 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy)
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is an insidious and fatal disease, imposing major financial and social burdens on affected individuals. Among the various methods proposed for the treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), treatments with natural products have achieved promising results due to their high efficiency and minimal side-effects. Literature was searched, analyzed, and collected using databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Excerpt Medica, Science Direct, and Springer. In this study, we reviewed the DCM-related studies on 72 representative natural products. These natural products have been confirmed to be applicable in the therapeutic intervention of DCM, acting through various mechanisms such as the amelioration of metabolic abnormalities, protecting the mitochondrial structure and function, anti-oxidant stress, anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrosis, regulation of Ca2+ homeostasis and regulation of programmed cell death. The nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf-2), and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) have been extensively studied as high frequency signaling pathways for natural product intervention in DCM. The effectiveness of natural products in treating DCM has been revealed and studied, which provides a reference for DCM-specific drug discovery.

Keywords
diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM)
natural products
pharmacology
mechanism
efficacy
review
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Funding
81302940/National Natural Science Foundation of China
ZR2021MH386/Shandong Natural Science Foundation
ZR2021LZY028/Shandong Natural Science Foundation
143/Special Fund of TCM High-level Talents Cultivation Project of Shandong Province
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