This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81774033 and No. 81773736 ) and the Hunan Provincial Department of Education-funded Scientific Research Project (No. 18C0379 and No. 19A378 ).
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Objective: Our previous research showed that Naotaifang (a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine) extract (NTE) has clinically beneficial effects on neurological improvement of patients with acute cerebral ischemia. In this study, we investigated whether NTE protected acute brain injury in rats and whether its effects on ferroptosis could be linked to the dysfunction of glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and iron metabolism. Methods: We established an acute brain injury model of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in rats, in which we c...