title: A metabolomics-based strategy for the quality control of traditional chinese medicine: shengmai injection as a case study.
abstract: Quality control of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) used clinically is becoming a challenge and has limited the development of TCM due to the high variability in concentration levels of active ingredients and markers as well as the lack of well-established criteria. Using Shengmai injection, which is a well-established TCM, as an example, we developed an integrated profiling approach that simultaneously captures the entire spectrum of ingredients and quantitatively determines the levels of seven key ingredients in the TCM product. A multivariate statistical model was constructed to establish a "seven-marker-" based quality standard that qualified the majority of samples in this study. This newly developed strategy showed that a panel of key ingredients or markers in the TCM product were relatively consistent within a statistically acceptable range. Therefore, this metabolomics-based approach will complement the current quality control standard using the concentration of several key ingredients or their total content and help improve the consistency and clinic efficacy of TCM products.
authors: College of Pharmacy, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China ; Center for Translational Biomedical Research, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA.
authors: Xiaodong
authors: X
authors: Li
authors: Huiyuan
authors: H
authors: Chen
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Jia
authors: Guoxiang
authors: G
authors: Xie
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