Proteomics and syndrome of Chinese medicine.
Syndrome of Chinese medicine is an understanding of the regularity of disease occurrence and development and its performance of symptoms. Syndrome is the key to recognize diseases and the foundation to treat them. However, because of the complexity of the concept and the limitation of present investigations, the research of syndrome is hard to go further. Proteomics has been received extensive attention in the area of medical diagnosis and drug development. In the holistic and systemic context, proteomics have a convergence with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome, which could overcome the one-sidedness and singleness of TCM and avoid the complication and tedious processes. Chinese medicine has a wealth of experience and proteomics has a substantial research potential, the integration of the two aspects will bring a great enhancement of our knowledge of disease.
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Chuan-Li
CL
College of Food and Bioengineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
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Xiao-Ying
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Jiang
Jian-Guo
JG
D002681:China; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D040901:Proteomics; D014059:Tongue