Project description:Using high-throughput antibody microarray, through cross-sectional sample detection and verification of samples that had undergone physical changes over time, it was found that people with balanced constitution and dampness constitution in Chinese medicine showed differences in serum protein expression. The differences were expressed as the level changes of 19 proteins such as Dectin-2, Siglec-7, AIF and TACI. The research results provided the basis for the scientific expression of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitution.
Project description:Based on the theory of constitution of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), healthy individuals can be grouped into distinctive types. the global gene expression signature for distinctive constitutions has not been sufficiently explored. Here we examined gene expression profiles from 32 Chinese Han individuals with Yang/Yin deficiency (n=12 each) and Balanced constitutions (n=8).
Project description:Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome is a core foundation of disease knowledge, clinical diagnosis and treatment and curative effect evaluation in TCM. "Same TCM Syndrome for Different Diseases" and "Same Treatment for Different Diseases" is one of the characteristics of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.
This study is the "TCM disease syndrome combination" research baced on principles and methods of system biology, which is through acquisition of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and colorectal cancer patients with TCM syndrome information, detection of clinical indicators and genomic, proteomic, and metabolites changes, analyzing the correlation between TCM syndromes and biological information, and revealing its biological material characteristics and the molecular mechanisms of "Same TCM Syndrome for Different Diseases";Developing and implementing the program of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment for HCC and colorectal cancer to evaluate the efficacy of TCM syndrome based-treatment of HCC and colorectal cancer with TCM syndrom scores, clinical and systems biological indicators, quality of life and survival rate, and to revealing the mechanism of the "Same Treatment for Different Diseases".
Project description:Guided by the idea of combining disease differentiation with syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine, this study used the form of questionnaire to summarize the changes of TCM syndromes, TCM constitution types in colorectal cancer patients before and after surgery. The Next-generation sequencing technology was used to explore the changes and differences of intestinal microorganisms before and after surgery. The correlation between changes of TCM syndromes, TCM constitution types, intestinal microbial evolution and tumor biological characteristics in colorectal cancer patients before and after surgery was analyzed. To explore the rationality of TCM in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer recurrence and metastasis in order to guide the individualized treatment and dietary regulation of TCM.
Project description:Cinnamomi ramulus (CR) is one of the most widely used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with anti-cancer effects. Analyzing transcriptomic responses of different human cell lines to TCM treatment is a promising approach to understand the unbiased mechanism of TCM. This study treated ten cancer cell lines with different CR concentrations, followed by mRNA sequencing.
Project description:To explore the biological connotation of eight syndromes of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) from the syndrome-symptom association network, and the relationship between the clinical characteristics of various syndromes and their key network target genes and pathways, which may offer clinicians auxiliary tools for diagnosis and treatment of RA patients with various traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes and promoting the developments of TCM Syndrome Theory. We used microarrays to detail the biological connotation of five syndromes (D-H, N) of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and identified distinct classes of up-regulated and down-regulated genes during this process.
Project description:Chaihu-Shugan-San (CSS) is a classical prescription used to treat depression. According to the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) principle, the 2 decomposed recipes in CSS exert synergistic effects, including Shu Gan (stagnated Gan-Qi dispersion) and Rou Gan (pain alleviation). However, the specific mechanism and compatibility rule remain to be explored. We aimed to analyze the advantage of TCM compatibility in CSS prescriptions and explore its anti-depression mechanisms.
Project description:Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a huge health burden in China, tongue diagnosis is the premise of personalized treatment of CHB by traditional Chinese medicine(TCM). The modern biological interpretation of pathological TCM tongue coating manifestation is unclear We performed transcriptional analysis in CHB patients with white tongue coating(WTC) or yellow tongue coating(YTC) to explain the potential inner biological differences
Project description:Chinese medicine is a complex system guided by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theories, which has proven to be especially effective in treating chronic and complex diseases. However, the underlying modes of action (MOA) are not always systematically investigated. Herein, a systematic study was designed to elucidate the multi-compound, multi-target and multi-pathway MOA of a Chinese medicine ,QSYQ, on myocardial infarction. Male Sprague Dawley rat model of myocardial infarction were administered QSYQ intragastrically for 7 days while the control group was not treated. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified from myocardial infarction rat model treated with QSYQ, followed by constructing a cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related multilevel compound-target-pathway network connecting main compounds to those DEGs supported by literature evidences and the pathways that are functionally enriched.
Project description:As a well-known traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription, Xin-Sheng-Hua Granule (XSHG) has been applied in China for more than thirty years to treat postpartum diseases, especially anaemia. However, the underlying therapeutic mechanisms of XSHG for anaemia were still unclear.