Traditional Medicine Collection Tracking System (TM-CTS): A database for ethnobotanically driven drug-discovery programs

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 590-593

  Harris, Eric S J ^a,d   Erickson, Sean D ^a   Tolopko, Andrew N ^a   Cao, Shugeng ^a   Craycroft, Jane A ^a   Scholten, Robert ^a   Fu, Yanling ^b   Wang, Wenquan ^b   Liu, Yong ^b   Zhao, Zhongzhen ^c   Clardy, Jon ^a   Shamu, Caroline E ^a   Eisenberg, David M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Drug discovery; Ethnobotany; High throughput screening; Traditional Chinese Medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ETHNOBOTANY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MEDICINAL PLANT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE COLLECTION TRACKING SYSTEM;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DRUG DISCOVERY; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL;

EID: 79955690966     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.03.029     Document Type: Article

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