Objective To investigate the protective effect and its mechanism of panax notoginseng saponins (PNS) on re-nal ischemia reperfusion injury (RIRI) in rats. Methods 40 male SD rats were randomly divided into the sham-opera-tion group, model group, low dose, medium dose, high dose [40, 80, 160 mg/(kg·d)] PNS groups. All rats were administered for 5 d, respectively. After ending treatment for 1 h, the RIRI model was established. After reperfusion for 3 h, the levels of urine nitrogen (BUN), secrumcreatinine (SCr), the content of malondialdehyde (M...