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2025 , Vol. 45 >Issue 4: 777 - 785

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19852/j.cnki.jtcm.2025.04.008

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An’s anorectal fumigation lotion for nuclear factor kappa-B pathway-targeted treatment of inflammatory mixed hemorrhoids

  • Dayong FENG ,
  • Ayue AN ,
  • Yuening FENG ,
  • Chunhui WANG ,
  • Zhiyong BAI ,
  • Qian WANG
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  • 1 Department of Anorectal surgery, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100102, China
    2 Department of surgery, the 305th Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100017, China
Dr AN Ayue, Department of surgery, the 305th Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100017, China. wangxistar@126.com,Telephone: +86-15711194303

Received date: 2024-07-16

  Accepted date: 2024-11-23

  Online published: 2025-07-25

Supported by

Science and Technology Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Mechanism of An's Anorectal Fumigation Lotion in the Treatment of Inflammatory Mixed hemorrhoids based on Nuclear Factor Kappa-B Pathway(CI2021A02104)

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mechanism by which An’s anorectal fumigation lotion (AAFL) treats inflammatory mixed hemorrhoids.

METHODS: Eighty Sprague-Dawley rats, with an equal number of males and females, were randomly assigned to the following four groups: control, model, AAFL, and positive groups. Following hemorrhoid induction, hemorrhoidal tissues were collected from the rats for analysis. Pathological alterations in these tissues were examined via hematoxylin-eosin staining. Immun-ohistochemistry was used to detect inflammatory markers. The ultrastructural pathological changes in these tissues were observed by transmission electron microscopy. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting were used to analyze the gene and protein expression of nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) p65, inhibitor of kappa-B (IκB), inhibitor of NF-κB kinase (IκK-β), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α).

RESULTS: Compared with the control group, the rats in each treatment group showed general improvements in hemorrhoidal tissue pathology. The AAFL group showed increased IκB expression and decreased IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, NF-κB, p65, and IκK-β expressions.

CONCLUSION: AAFL can decrease the production of inflammatory markers by targeting the NF-κB pathway, resulting in improved pathological conditions in mixed hemorrhoids. Our findings will aid in the treatment of mixed hemorrhoids.

Key words： hemorrhoids; NF-kapa B; inflammatory factors; An’s anorectal fumigation lotion

Cite this article

Dayong FENG , Ayue AN , Yuening FENG , Chunhui WANG , Zhiyong BAI , Qian WANG . An’s anorectal fumigation lotion for nuclear factor kappa-B pathway-targeted treatment of inflammatory mixed hemorrhoids[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2025 , 45(4) : 777 -785 . DOI: 10.19852/j.cnki.jtcm.2025.04.008

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