[Advances in the study on effect of traditional Chinese medicine on gene expression]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2000 Sep;25(9):515-7, 565.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Objective: To review the progresses in the study on the effect of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on gene expression.

Method: Consulting more than 20 domestic relevant documents of recent years and summarizing several representative kinds of TCM.

Result and conclusion: The curative effect of TCM has something to do with its bioactive composition that promotes the regulation of gene expression; and the continued study on this mechanism of regulation may contribute to the modernization of TCM theory.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aging / genetics
  • Animals
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal / pharmacology*
  • Gene Expression
  • Humans
  • Interleukins / biosynthesis*
  • Interleukins / genetics
  • Oncogenes
  • RNA, Messenger / genetics

Substances

  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
  • Interleukins
  • RNA, Messenger