Metabolomics: Towards understanding traditional Chinese medicine

Planta Medica

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2026-2035

  Zhang, Aihua ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Wang, Zhigang ^a   Sun, Wenjun ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Wang, Xijun ^a  

^a HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

biomarkers; LC MS; metabolic diseases; metabolomics; molecular markers; NMR; systems biology; traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACONITUM EXTRACT; ALCOHOL; ARECAIDINE; ARECOLINE; ARISTOLOCHIA FANGCHI EXTRACT; BERBERINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHINESE DRUG; COPTIS RHIZOME EXTRACT; EPIMEDIUM EXTRACT; EVOCARPINE; EVODIA FRUIT EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; GINSENOSIDE RB 1; GINSENOSIDE RB 2; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LIU WEI DI HUANG WAN; MERCURY SULFIDE; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; SALVIA MILTIORRHIZA EXTRACT; SPHINGOMYELIN; TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YIN CHEN HAO TANG;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TEA;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; METABOLOMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 78649908579     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1250542     Document Type: Review

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