Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common degenerative disease of the central nervous system, but no drug has been found to be surely able to protect neurons so far, delay onset or slow progression of the disease. Currently there are a variety of Chinese formulas, single herb medicines, active fractions and monomers showed prophylactic and therapeutic effect on PD animal models. The mechanisms include protection of substantia nigra cells, improvement of neurotransmitter content, anti-oxidation, immune regulation, enhancement of Western medicine efficacy, reduction of side effects, etc. All these mechanisms may play integrated effect and slow disease progression. In particular, Chinese medicine compound may have some advantages in neuroprotective treatment of PD, because a variety of active ingredients can exert multi-links, multi-levels and multi-targets integrated regulation effect on human body. However, the level and standard of Chinese medicine studies on PD animal still need to be improved.
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