The invention discloses application of curculigoside in preparation of a
medicine for preventing or treating
renal fibrosis, and belongs to the technical field of biological
medicine. In an in-vivo experiment, expression levels of
Vimentin and alpha-SMA in
kidney tissues of UUO model mice can be reduced through
intraperitoneal injection of curculigoside, so that
cell phenotypic transformation induced by TGF-beta1 is reduced, the collagenous
fiber deposition area in Masson
dyeing is reduced, the expression level of
Collagen I protein in the
kidney tissues of the UUO model mice is reduced, and the
fibrosis process of the
kidney tissues is reduced. Proved by
signal generation analysis and
cell thermal migration experiments, curculigoside can be combined with EZH2, which prompts that curculigoside can inhibit the
fibrosis process through a targeted EZH2 pathway. It is proved for the first time that curculigoside has the effect of relieving
renal fibrosis, and a new thought is provided for
medicine development of curculigoside in the
kidney disease direction.