Metabolite profiling and characterization for medicinal herbal remedies

Current Drug Metabolism

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 535-557

  Yang, Min ^a   Cheng, Chunru ^a   Yang, Junling ^a   Guo, De An ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Complex system; Hyphenated technique; Identification; Medicinal herbal remedy; Metabolite; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Preparation; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTHRAQUINONE; BERBERINE; CATECHIN; CHINESE DRUG; CHLOROGENIC ACID; CROCETIN; DANGGUI BUXUE TANG; DAURICINE; DICENTRINE; DIHYDROCAFFEIC ACID; DRUG METABOLITE; FLAVONOID; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ISOLIQUIRITIGENIN; LIQUIRITIGENIN; METHANOL; MONOTERPENOID; PHENYLBUTENOID; PHY 906; PLANT EXTRACT; RUTAECARPINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SCUTELLARIN; SESQUITERPENOID; TANSHINONE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE; TRYPTANTHRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACONITUM CARMICHAELI; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANESTHESIA; ANISODUS TANGUTICUS; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS; ASTRAGALI RADIX; BRONCHITIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; COFFEE; CROCUS SATIVUS; CURCUMA WENYUJIN; DRUG METABOLISM; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ERIGERON BREVISCAPUS; EUCALYPTUS POLYBRACTEA; FALLOPIA MULTIFLORA; FORSYTHIA SUSPENSE; GANODERMA LUCIDUM; GINGER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER MICROSOME; LIVER TOXICITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENISPERMUM DAURICUM; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PANAX NOTOGINSENG; PLANT ROOT; RHUBARB; SALVIA MILTIORRHIZA; STROKE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TETRADIUM RUTICARPUM; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR;

EID: 84861890620     PISSN: 13892002     EISSN: 18755453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389200211209050535     Document Type: Article

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