title: Hepatic metabolism: a key component of herbal drugs research.
abstract: Liver is the largest metabolic organ for a wide range of endogenous and exogenous compounds and plays a crucial part in the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics through various metabolic reactions. This review provides a progressive description of hepatic metabolism of herbal drugs with respect to metabolic types and investigational methods. In addition, the problems encountered during the research process are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine , Beijing 100102 , China.
authors.forename: Yu-Shuai
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ru-Feng
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qi-Tao
authors.initials: QT
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiu-Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D029001:Herbal Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D015394:Molecular Structure
keywords: constituents; hepatic metabolism; herbal drugs; review