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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

The Mechanism Action of German Chamomile (

Wenfei Wang, Yichun Wang, Junbo Zou, Yanzhuo Jia, Yao Wang, Jia Li, Changli Wang, Jing Sun, Dongyan Guo, Fang Wang and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Wenfei WangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Yichun WangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Junbo ZouDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Yanzhuo JiaDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Yao WangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Jia LiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Changli WangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Jing SunDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Dongyan GuoDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Fang WangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
Zhenfeng WuDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
Ming YangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
Lei WuHenan Feinari Aromatic Biotechnology Co., Ltd, Zhumadian, China.
Xiaofei ZhangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.
Yajun ShiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To determine the active ingredients in German chamomile volatile oil and the mechanism of action in the treatment of eczema, this study used two parameters (ingredient content and oil-water partition coefficient) and established a new network pharmacology method based on the dose-effect weight coefficient. Through the new network pharmacology method, we found that German chamomile volatile oil regulated T-cell lymphatic subpopulations to inhibit the Th17 cell differentiation signaling pathway. This resulted in a reduction of interleukin 17 (IL-17), thereby inhibiting the activation of the nuclear factor kappa beta (NF-κB) and MAPK pathways, decreasing the secretion of the pro-inflammatory factors (tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin 6 (IL-6)), and reducing inflammation. In this study, a new dose-effect relationship synergistic network pharmacology method was established to provide a new method for the screening of effective ingredients and pathways of drugs, and to provide a basis for the follow-up studies of German chamomile volatile oil in the treatment of eczema.

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eczemaGerman chamomilemechanism verificationmolecular dockingweight coefficient

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PMCPMC8515037

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