ORIGINAL ARTICLE Protective Effects of Jiashen Prescription (加参方) on Myocardial Infarction in Rats ZHU Ming-jun (朱明军)1,2, WANG You-ping (王幼平)1, XIE Shi-yang (谢世阳)1, LIU Wei-hong (刘卫红)1, LI Bin (李 彬)1, WANG Yong-xia (王永霞)1, WANG He (王 贺)1, and ZHANG Bo-li (张伯礼)2 Objective:: To evaluate the effects of Jiashen Prescription (加参方, JSP) on myocardial infarction ABSTRACT Objective Methods:: One hundred male Sprague-Dawley rats (MI) size and cardiac function at the early stage of MI in rats. Methods were subjected to sham-operation or MI induced by ligating the left anterior descending coronary artery. The rats Results:: Compared with MI were treated with vehicle, JSP 3 and 6 g/(kg•d), or losartan 10 mg/(kg•d) for 1 week. Results with the vehicle-treated MI rats, 6 g/(kg•d) JSP reduced MI size 3 days after MI (P