The potential of metabolic fingerprinting as a tool for the modernisation of TCM preparations

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 482-491

  Sheridan, Helen ^a   Krenn, Liselotte ^b   Jiang, Renwang ^c   Sutherland, Ian ^d   Ignatova, Svetlana ^d   Marmann, Andreas ^e   Liang, Xinmiao ^f   Sendker, Jandirk ^g  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese herbal medicines; Compound analysis; Extraction; Fingerprint analysis; Metabolomics

Indexed keywords

DANGGUI BUXUE TANG; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG GRANULATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG QUALITY; FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; PARTITION CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRESSURIZED HOT WATER EXTRACTION; PROCEDURES; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TECHNOLOGY;

DANGGUI;

EID: 84858997769     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.01.050     Document Type: Article

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