Integrating findings of traditional medicine with modern pharmaceutical research: The potential role of linked open data

Chinese Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Samwald, Matthias ^a,b   Dumontier, Michel ^c   Zhao, Jun ^d   Luciano, Joanne S ^e   Marshall, Michael S ^f   Cheung, Kei ^g  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Information Retrieval Facility   (Austria)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MAGNOLIA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT;

ACORUS GRAMINEUS; ALBIZIA JULIBRISSIN; ALPINIA OXYPHYLLA; ANOREXIA; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; ASTRAGALUS PROPINQUUS; ATRACTYLODES; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; CISTANCHE DESERTICOLA; CNIDIUM MONNIERI; CODONOPSIS PILOSULA; COMA; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DIOSCOREA OPPOSITA; DIPSACUS ASPER; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DYSPNEA; EPIMEDIUM GRANDIFLORUM; FEAR; GINSENG; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEART PALPITATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INSOMNIA; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; LETHARGY; LIQUIDAMBAR ORIENTALIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTAL DISEASE; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; NOTE; PLATYCLADUS ORIENTALIS; POLYGALA TENUIFOLIA; PSORALEA CORYLIFOLIA; SEIZURE; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TU CHUNG; WEAKNESS; ZIZYPHUS SPINOSA HU;

EID: 78650166292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-5-43     Document Type: Note

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