Cytotoxicity and Pharmacogenomics of Medicinal Plants from Traditional Korean Medicine

Cytotoxicity and Pharmacogenomics of Medicinal Plants from Traditional Korean Medicine

Aim. The present study was designed to investigate the cytotoxicity of a panel of 280 Korean medicinal plants belonging to 73 families and 198 species against human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells. Selected phytochemicals were investigated in more detail for their mode of action. Methods. The resazurin assay was used to determine cytotoxicity of the plant extracts. Microarray-based mRNA expression prof...

Antiangiogenic Activity and Pharmacogenomics of Medicinal Plants from Traditional Korean Medicine

Aim. In the present study, we investigated the antiangiogenic properties of 59 plants used in traditional Korean medicine. Selected phytochemicals were investigated in more detail for their modes of action. Methods. A modified chicken-chorioallantoic-membrane (CAM) assay using quail eggs was applied to test for antiangiogenic effects of plant extracts. A molecular docking in silico approached t...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

Africa: Overview on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine

In all countries of the world there exists traditional knowledge related to the health of humans and animals. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the definition of traditional medicine may be summarized as the sum total of all the knowledge and practical, whether explicable or not, used in the diagnosis, prevention and elimination of physical, mental or social imbalance and relying...

Ontology for medicinal materials based on traditional Korean medicine

UNLABELLED We are constructing an ontology for traditional Korean medicine, and we started with medicinal materials to express the relationships between patients' symptoms, diseases and treatments. Biological materials and mineral resources have been used traditionally for patient treatments. The ontology includes various data related to these materials, such as their scientific names, parts of...