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ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2020

Chinmedomics, a new strategy for evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines.

Ying Han, Hui Sun, Aihua Zhang, Guangli Yan, Xi-Jun Wang

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Review in Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ying HanNational Chinmedomics Research Center, Metabolomics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China.
Hui SunNational Chinmedomics Research Center, Metabolomics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China.
Aihua ZhangNational Chinmedomics Research Center, Metabolomics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China.
Guangli YanNational Chinmedomics Research Center, Metabolomics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China.
Xi-Jun WangNational Chinmedomics Research Center, Metabolomics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Heping Road 24, Harbin 150040, China. Electronic address: xijunw@sina.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herbal medicines have accumulated valuable clinical experience in thousands of years of applications in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) or ethnomedicine. The unique multi-target efficacy on complex diseases made herbal medicines gained a global popularity in recent years. However, the characteristic of multi-component acting on multi-target poses a dilemma for the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines. Advances in metabolomics enable efficient identification of the various changes in biological systems exposed to different treatments or conditions. The use of serum pharmacochemistry of TCM has significant implications for tackling the major issue in herbal medicines development-pharmacodynamic material basis. Chinmedomics integrates metabolomics and serum pharmacochemistry of TCM to investigate the pharmacodynamic material basis and effective mechanisms of herbal medicines on the basis of TCM syndromes and holds the promise of explaining therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines in scientific language. In this review, the historical development of chinmedomics from concept formation to successful applications was discussed. We also took the systematic research of Yin Chen Hao Tang (YCHT) as an example to show the research strategy of chinmedomics.

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Medicine, Chinese TraditionalMetabolomeMetabolomicsAnimalsBiomarkersDrugs, Chinese HerbalHumansSignal TransductionBiomarkersDrugs, Chinese Herbalyin-chen-hao-tangChinmedomicsHerbal medicinesPharmacodynamic material basisQuality control of herbal medicinesTCM syndrome

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PMID32956722
PMCPMC7500400

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