title: [Metabonomics and the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine].
abstract: The rapid development of systems biology and especially the advances in the high-throughput and comprehensive research technologies and research idea in metabonomics provide new strategies in the analysis of active components in the formula of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and pharmacokinetic analysis of their metabolites in vivo. Furthermore, the initiatives of metabonomics may pave a new way to explain the action mode of TCM in the light of modern sciences, while the metabonomic research achievements may contribute to the establishment of a new technique platform for evaluating the efficacy of the formula of TCM.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Research of Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China. yizeng_liang@263.net
authors.forename: Yi-Zeng
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Zhi-Biao
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Lun-Zhao
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ya-Li
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000639:trends*; D055432:Metabolomics; D012922:Social Change; D049490:Systems Biology; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal