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Plant metabolomics: a new strategy and tool for quality evaluation of Chinese medicinal materials
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The present quality control method of Chinese medicinal materials (CMM) has obvious deficiency, which cannot be compatible with the multi-target and multi-component characteristics and production process of CMM. Plant metabolomics with a huge impetus to comprehensively characterize the metabolites and clarify the complexity and integrity of CMM, has been widely used in the research of CMM. This article comprehensively reviewed the application of plant metabolomics in the quality control of CMM. It introduced the concept, technique, and application examples, discussed the prospects, limitations, improvements of plant metabolomics. MS and NMR, as important techniques for plant metabolomics, are mainly highlighted in the case references. The purpose of this article is to clarify the advantage of plants metabolomics for promoting the optimization of the CMM quality control system and proposing a system approach to realize the overall quality control of CMM based on plant metabolomics combined with multidisciplinary method.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Xiao, Q., Mu, X., Liu, J., Li, B., Liu, H., Zhang, B., & Xiao, P.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Haitao
- Venue
- Chinese Medicine
- Published
- 2022-04-08
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-45
- ISSN
- 1749-8546 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8990502
- OpenAlex
- W4223445632
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 102
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 7
- FWCI
- 4.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Chinese Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- the ability establishment of sustainable use for valuable Chinese medicine resources (2060302-2002-05)
- the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81872965)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Keywords
- plant metabolomics, Chinese materia medica, quality control, metabolite profiling, mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy
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