Lipid-Regulating Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Mechanisms of Actions

Lipid-Regulating Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Mechanisms of Actions

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been increasingly used for the treatment of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease. Recently, much progress has been made in studies on the mechanisms of action of the lipid-regulating effect of TCM in animal experiments. Current researches showed that the lipid-regulating effect of TCM may be related to the following actions: (1) inhibiting intestinal ab...

Effect and Molecular Mechanisms of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Regulating Tumor Immunosuppressive Microenvironment

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an important complementary strategy for treating cancer in China. The mechanism is related to regulating the internal environment and remodeling the tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIM). Herein we illustrate how TIM is reformed and its protumor activity on promoting tumor cell proliferation, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, tumor invasion, and ...

Targeting Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine

1938 www.thelancet.com Vol 372 December 6, 2008 transplantations. At present, 87 institutions have full approval from the Ministry of Health; 77 others have provisional approval and 18 months to comply with all the regulations. This number is a reduction from the more than 600 institutions that did transplants 1 year ago. Regulations have been set up to ban transplant tourism. The penalty for p...

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine

Lida Teng, BSc, is a PhD student at the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London; Debbie Shaw, BSc, is a research scientist at the Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London; and Joanne Barnes, PhD, MRPharmS, is associate professor in herbal medicines at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Scie...