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    2020年, 第15卷, 第1期 刊出日期:2020-02-20 上一期    下一期
    Regular Article
    Network pharmacology-based screening of the active ingredients and potential targets of the Patrinia villosa for application to Alzheimer’s disease
    Shuhui Dong, Zhikang Duan, Ming Bai, Xiaoxiao Huang, Shaojiang Song
    2020 (1):  1-7. 
    摘要 ( 368 )   PDF(1271KB) ( 384 )  
    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with global deterioration of intellectual function, including memory, learning, orientation, language, comprehension and judgment. Given the prevalence of AD and the lack of effective long-term therapies, there is a pressing need to discover viable leads that can be developed into clinically approved drugs with disease-modifying effects. The analysis of current reported literatures confirms the importance of Patrinia villosa J. as candidate against AD. Hence, the compound-disease target network based on the methods of network pharmacology prediction was established in this paper. The aim is to explore potential compounds with marked effect on AD in P. villosa. The result showed that the most effective compound in this plant might be threo-(7R,8R)-guaiacyl-glycerol-β-O-4′-dihydroconiferyl ether, and the most potential target might be Maltose-binding periplasmic.
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    Evaluating the quality consistency of compound Liangmianzhen buccal tablets during accessories replacement by HPLC/UV related with its active profiling and UV dissolution profiles
    Yue Yu, Hanxiao Chi, Guoxiang Sun, Fangliang Yang, Wanyang Sun, Jiayue Hu, Yanhua Zhang
    2020 (1):  8-23. 
    摘要 ( 341 )   PDF(2255KB) ( 2052 )  
    Compound Liangmianzhen buccal tablet is a drug that exhibits notable effect on cough and diphtheria. Since the accessory has been changed, along with the difficulties in traditional Chinese drug-evaluation, it is imperative to set up a reliable method to evaluate the drug and ensure the quality consistency. First, the content of the Compound Liangmianzhen buccal tablets reflected by fingerprints were evaluated by the comprehensive linearly quantified fingerprint method and systematic quantified fingerprint method, in which thirteen fingerprint peaks was selected and gallic acid was chosen as the reference peak. The results of the two methods showed all batches in grades 1–3 of above good level with the qualitative similarities of Sl and Sm above 0.90, and the quantitative ones of Pl% and Pm% from 80%–120%, indicating all samples far qualified. Second, the measurement of antioxidant effect based on DPPH free radical clearance test has demonstrated the consistency between the old prescription group and the new ones and further dug up the major antioxidant compositions. Third, dissolution profiles at 190 to 400 nm that evaluate the curative effect consistency were evaluated by f2 and the correlation of the dissolution curve. In conclusion, the combination of 3 kinds of analysis methods can comprehensively assess the quality of the traditional Chinese drug and be served as a routine procedure to evaluate the herbal medicine consistency.
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    Screening of potential active compounds in Daphne aurantiaca Diels against prostate cancer by Network pharmacology
    Yangyang Zhang, Jingjie Chen, Xiaoxiao Huang
    2020 (1):  24-31. 
    摘要 ( 343 )   PDF(1399KB) ( 340 )  
    Daphne aurantiaca Diels belongs to the Daphne L.genus of Thymelaeaceaen family and flavonoids, terpenoids, lignans, phenylpropanoids are the main chemical components isolated from this plant. And the extracts of Daphne aurantiaca Diels have been reported with multiple pharmacological activities, such as anti-prostate cancer, anti-HIV, anti-microbial et al. and good development prospects, which have drawn enormous attention. However, its system-level researches of drug-target associations are not enough. Here we employed molecular docking and network pharmacology methods to predict the effective compositions of Daphne aurantiaca Diels and its potential target proteins against prostate cancer.
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    A theoretical study on the molecular structure and chemical reactivity of traditional Chinese medicine extract isopimpinellin
    Jian Zhang, Xiu Li
    2020 (1):  32-40. 
    摘要 ( 410 )   PDF(1155KB) ( 309 )  
    Isopimpinellin (C13H10O5), alternative name 5,8-dimethoxypsoralen, is one of the furocoumarin compounds. This traditional Chinese medicine extract has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to its pharmacological properties, especially its antifungal effect. The main purpose of this study was to study the molecular structure and chemical reactivity of isopimpinellin using the density functional theory method. To understand and interpret the reactivity of isopimpinellin, various chemical reactivity descriptors such as chemical potential (μ), electronegativity (χ), chemical hardness (η) and electrophilicity (ω) and local reactivity index condensed Fukui function (fi(r)) have been calculated with five hybrid functionals PBE1PBE, MPW1PW91, B3LYP, X3LYP and B3PW91. These chemical reactivity descriptors indicate that the isopimpinellin molecule has a good antioxidant activity, which could be one of the reasons for its action as an effective antifungal drug. The condensed Fukui functions of isopimpinellin molecule provide a complete scheme of chemical reactivity of one molecule.
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