Material basis of Chinese herbal formulas explored by combining pharmacokinetics with network pharmacology.

The clinical application of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), using several herbs in combination (called formulas), has a history of more than one thousand years. However, the bioactive compounds that account for their therapeutic effects remain unclear. We hypothesized that the material basis of...

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Main Authors: Lixia Pei, Yuanwu Bao, Sheng Liu, Jin Zheng, Xiuping Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585395?pdf=render