Icariin, an Anti-atherosclerotic Drug from Chinese Medicinal Herb Horny Goat Weed

Icariin is a major bioactive pharmaceutical constituent isolated from Chinese medicine Horny Goat Weed with potent cardiovascular protective functions. Emerging evidence in the past decade has shown that Icariin possesses multiple atheroprotective functions, through multiple mechanisms, including attenuating DNA damage, correcting endothelial dysfunction, inhibiting the proliferation and migration of smooth muscle cells, repressing...