Poor bioavailability and undefined major/direct targets are two major obstacles for herbal medicines and natural products(NPs) to elucidate their precise mechanisms in vivo. Gut microbiota is an important bridge bet...Poor bioavailability and undefined major/direct targets are two major obstacles for herbal medicines and natural products(NPs) to elucidate their precise mechanisms in vivo. Gut microbiota is an important bridge between eukayotic body and environment, which can interact with a majority of medicines with poor bioavailability and mediate their in vivo pharmacological activities. There are two main modes through which gut microbiota may mediate the pharmacological effects of NPs. First, gut microbiota catabolizes the NPs in herbal medicines into secondary metabolites with higher bioavialability and/or higher activity, facilitating the NPs enter circulation and exert beneficial impact at the pathological spot. Second, herbal medicines and NPs can favorably shift the compositional structure of gut microbiota, thereby performing remote functions to diseased organs/tissues via the systemic impaction of gut microbiota. In this review, the potential pathways were summarized through which gut microbes facilitate the pharmacological functions of herbal medicines and NPs and highlight the significance of gut microbiota in clarifying the in vivo mechanisms of herbal medicines and NPs.展开更多
Due to better understanding of traditional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine,and natural products, there are increasing findings in these fields.In order to facilitate the findings to be known widely an...Due to better understanding of traditional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine,and natural products, there are increasing findings in these fields.In order to facilitate the findings to be known widely and timely by readers, here this articleAcupuncture & Basic & clinical research in Electro-Therapeutics acupuncture,展开更多
Chemotherapy is still the effective strategy for treating cancer.It is important to explore anticancer agents from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural products.Different cancer cell lines were included in our res...Chemotherapy is still the effective strategy for treating cancer.It is important to explore anticancer agents from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural products.Different cancer cell lines were included in our research,such as HL60,K562,K562/ADR,KB,KBv200 cells.Cell growth inhibition assay,Annexin V-FITC/PI double-staining assay,measurement of reactive展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81673663)CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS 2016-I2M-3-015)
文摘Poor bioavailability and undefined major/direct targets are two major obstacles for herbal medicines and natural products(NPs) to elucidate their precise mechanisms in vivo. Gut microbiota is an important bridge between eukayotic body and environment, which can interact with a majority of medicines with poor bioavailability and mediate their in vivo pharmacological activities. There are two main modes through which gut microbiota may mediate the pharmacological effects of NPs. First, gut microbiota catabolizes the NPs in herbal medicines into secondary metabolites with higher bioavialability and/or higher activity, facilitating the NPs enter circulation and exert beneficial impact at the pathological spot. Second, herbal medicines and NPs can favorably shift the compositional structure of gut microbiota, thereby performing remote functions to diseased organs/tissues via the systemic impaction of gut microbiota. In this review, the potential pathways were summarized through which gut microbes facilitate the pharmacological functions of herbal medicines and NPs and highlight the significance of gut microbiota in clarifying the in vivo mechanisms of herbal medicines and NPs.
文摘Due to better understanding of traditional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine,and natural products, there are increasing findings in these fields.In order to facilitate the findings to be known widely and timely by readers, here this articleAcupuncture & Basic & clinical research in Electro-Therapeutics acupuncture,
文摘Chemotherapy is still the effective strategy for treating cancer.It is important to explore anticancer agents from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural products.Different cancer cell lines were included in our research,such as HL60,K562,K562/ADR,KB,KBv200 cells.Cell growth inhibition assay,Annexin V-FITC/PI double-staining assay,measurement of reactive