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Traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCM) that for centuries have been used in disease prevention and treatment are finding use as alternatives to Western cancer therapies. From a panel of TCM, we chose four compounds representing two functional classes of botanicals, the purified plant flavins
Nearly 20 herbs or herbal components were screened for the inhibitory effect of rat lens aldose reductase(AR) with a fluorometric assay of AR activity. Among these Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Radix astragali, Gentiana scabra, silybin, puerarin and baicalin were found to exhibit
The Th17/Treg axis plays a crucial role in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) and might represent an interesting drug target of treatment strategy for these diseases. Accumulating evidence suggests a role for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the modulation of Th17/Treg axis, but a
Xiao-chai-hu-tang (XCHT) is an important Chinese herbal prescription for curing many types of liver diseases. The contents of bioactive constituents (saikosaponins a, c and d, baicalin, baicalein, and glycyrrhizic acid), and antioxidant properties of XCHT extracts prepared with ultrasound-assisted
BACKGROUND
We recently developed high-throughput assays of inflammation-independent anti-fibrotic activities based on TGF-beta1-induced total collagen accumulation and nodule formation in normal rat kidney fibroblasts.
METHODS
These assays were applied to examine the anti-fibrotic activities of 21