Strategy for analysis and screening of bioactive compounds in traditional Chinese medicines

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), due to their long time clinic test and reliable therapeutic efficacy, are attracting increased global attention served as excellent pools of bioactive compounds for the discovery of new drugs. However, hundreds or even thousands of components are usually contained in traditional Chinese medicines and only a few compounds are responsible for the pharmaceutical and/or toxic effects. The large numbers of other components in traditional Chinese medicines make the screening and analysis of the bioactive components extremely difficult. By the way, the combination effect of bioactive components on the pharmacological activity makes it very difficult to clear the therapeutic mechanism of TCMs. Therefore, some strategies have to design for screening of bioactive compounds in traditional Chinese medicines, which further leads to disclose the therapeutic mechanism of TCMs in molecular level. The review will summarize the present state of the art of screening strategy for active compounds in traditional Chinese medicines, and the chromatography methods for screening and analysis of bioactive compounds in traditional Chinese medicines will be emphasized.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2004

Erschienen:

2004

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:812

Enthalten in:

Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences - 812(2004), 1-2 vom: 05. Dez., Seite 71-84

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Xiaodong [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xueguo [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Zou, Hanfa [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

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Date Completed 18.04.2005

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM152237054