TY - JOUR T1 - Possible Protective effect of Unani formulation against Isoproterenol induced toxicity in SVEC cells JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/062802 SP - 062802 A2 - , Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/08/062802.abstract N2 - Main objective of the present study is to screen the protective efficiency of Khamira Gaozaban Ambari Jadwar Ood Saleeb Wala (KGAJOSW) a Unani formulation by using an experimentally induced toxicity model. Study mainly focused on the protective efficacy of the Unani formulation “KGAJOSW” with special emphasis to Isoproterenol (ISO) induced toxicity. This formulation has been referred as a “cardio tonic”, both in ancient (Uddin Mk, 1967) and recent literatures (Ahmad et al, 2010) of Unanipathy. The outcome of this study will deliver the protective and non-toxic nature of the KGAJOSW. This will enhance the medicinal properties of other Unani formulation and making them non-toxic.Existing medicines and therapeutic procedures are target specific and have several post therapeutic complications like hypertension, Obesity, etc. Recent studies demonstrate that non-invasive treatment is the better way to treat and control development of chronic diseases like atherosclerosis. Due to these undesirable effects of synthetic drugs, the world population is turning towards medicines derived from locally available native extracts of edible plant parts and plants products, like Unani and Ayurveda.In this context it is proposed to investigate the following objectives, which emphasis the lethality, ROS scavenging and expression of SOD-2 protein by KGAJOSW. The outcome of this study will focus on the mode of action and brief mechanisms operative at the “cardio tonic” level as affirmed for KGAJOSW in Unani pharmacopeia.ObjectivesTo identify the lethal dose of Isoproterenol and Unani formulationTo measure Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) levelsTo check the Superoxide dismutase2 (SOD2) protein and RNA expressionWound healing assay to know the cell proliferationStudy design We come-up with a pilot study to screen the protective as well as non-toxic effects of said Unani formulation. To achieve this we adopted a model of Isoproterenol (ISO) induced toxicity which is widely used to study the myocardial infarction in cells and animals. In this study we want to induce toxicity in simian virus derived murine endothelial cell line (SVEC) cells by treating with ISO and we were assuming this toxicity could be rescued by treating with Khamira (see the Schematic representation). We designed four experimental conditions like Untreated- SVEC cells without any treatment, ISO- SVEC cells receiving Isoproterenol, Khamira- SVEC cells receiving Unani formulation, ISO+Khamira- SVEC cells receiving both Isoproterenol and Khamira. ER -