title: Determination of bioactive constituents in traditional Chinese medicines by CE with electrochemical detection.
abstract: This paper reviews the recent advances and the key strategies in capillary electrophoresis (CE) with electrochemical detection (ECD) for separating and detecting a variety of bioactive constituents in traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs). The subjects covered include the separation modes for the CE analysis of the constituents in TCMs, the CE-ECD system, the sample preparations of TCMs, the ECD of TCMs, the applications of CE-ECD in the determination of various bioactive constituents in Chinese medicinal materials and their preparations, the identification and differentiation of TCMs by CE-ECD, and future prospects. It is expected that CE-ECD will become a powerful tool in the herbal medicinal fields and will lead to the creation of truly routine devices for TCM analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China. gangchen@fudan.edu.cn
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yizhun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yufeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xuejiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D010936:Plant Extracts