The application discloses a new use of
Leonurine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the preparation of a medicament for treating
radiation-induced brain injury, specifically, providing a safe and effective therapeutic
drug for iron death,
neuroinflammation,
neuron damage and
lipid metabolism disorder accompanying the
radiation-induced brain injury, solving the technical problem of lack of specific treatment means in the prior art, and having a wide clinical application prospect. Experiments adopt a C57BL / c mouse 30 Gy whole brain X-
ray radiation model, and results show that
Leonurine can significantly improve the
body weight decrease and
survival rate of the model mice, reduce the serum IL-6 and IFN-alpha levels, inhibit the activation of microglial cells in the
cerebral cortex and
hippocampus, protect and repair damaged neurons, and improve the
ultrastructure of mitochondria and synapses; meanwhile, the expression of GPX4 and SLC7A11 proteins in the
brain tissue is up-regulated, the GSH content is increased to inhibit iron death, and the levels of GPE, GPS and GPC related to
lipid metabolism are restored.