Unraveling the mystery of efficacy in Chinese medicine formula: New approaches and technologies for research on pharmacodynamic substances

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the key to unlock treasures of Chinese civilization. TCM and its compound play a beneficial role in medical activities to cure diseases, especially in major public health events such as novel coronavirus epidemics across the globe. The chemical composition in Chinese medicine formula is complex and diverse, but their effective substances resemble “mystery boxes”. Revealing their active ingredients and their mechanisms of action has become focal point and difficulty of research for herbalists. Although the existing research methods are numerous and constantly updated iteratively, there is remain a lack of prospective reviews. Hence, this paper provides a comprehensive account of existing new approaches and technologies based on previous studies with an in vitro to in vivo perspective. In addition, the bottlenecks of studies on Chinese medicine formula effective substances are also revealed. Especially, we look ahead to new perspectives, technologies and applications for its future development. This work reviews based on new perspectives to open horizons for the future research. Consequently, herbal compounding pharmaceutical substances study should carry on the essence of TCM while pursuing innovations in the field.     

Rewiring cellular metabolism for heterologous biosynthesis of Taxol

Abstract

Taxol is one of the anticancer drugs synthesized naturally in the evergreen Taxus brevifolia forest tree belonging to the yew family (Taxaceae) growing on the Pacific. There are reportedly evidence for treating ovarian, breast and lung cancers through this drug given its unique structural and functional features. Extraction of this drug from yew trees bark is one of the most common ways of producing this drug, but 3000 trees are needed to obtain a kilogram of Taxol. Hence, further attention has recently been attracted to the metabolic engineering strategies, including, engineering cellular metabolism of microorganisms and their optimization. Accordingly, the present paper article was aimed to review recent advances in elevating the production and commercialization of Taxol through metabolic engineering techniques.     

Isolation and Characterization of Badge Hydrolysis Products

Heating a suspension of Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) in 20 : 80 tetrahydrofuran/water at 70°C and subsequent passage of the resulting solution through C18 columns allowed isolation and purification to > 97% of each of the two hydrolysis products 2-[4-(2,3-dihydroxypropoxy) phenyl]-2-[4-(2,3-epoxypropoxy)phenyl]propane (1HP) and 2,2-bis[4-(2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)phenyl] propane (2HP), which were characterized by UV, IR, ₁H and _I3C NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.     

Applications of High-Hydrostatic Pressure on Milk and Dairy Products

Interest in high-pressure (HP) applications on milk and dairy products has recently increased. Pressures between 300 and 600 MPa has been shown to be an effective method to inactivate microorganisms including most infectious food-borne pathogens. In addition to microbial destruction, it has been reported that HP improves rennet or acid coagulation of milk without detrimental effects on important quality characteristics, such as taste, flavour, vitamins, and nutrients. These characteristics offer to dairy industry numerous practical applications to produce microbial safety, minimally processed dairy products with improved performances, and to develop novel dairy products of high nutritional and sensory quality, novel texture and increased shelf life.     

I.I.D.随机变量两两乘积之和的Hsu-Robbins型定理(II)

在本部分中,采用由Levy函数(4.1)所确定的值b     

Covering the alternating groups by products of cycle classes

Given integers k,l?2, where either l is odd or k is even, we denote by n=n(k,l) the largest integer such that each element of An is a product of k cycles of length l. For an odd l, k is the diameter of the undirected Cayley graph Cay(An,Cl), where Cl is the set of all l-cycles in An. We prove that if k?2 and l?9 is odd and divisible by 3, then . This extends earlier results by Bertram [E. Bertram, Even permutations as a product of two conjugate cycles, J. Combin. Theory 12 (1972) 368-380] and Bertram and Herzog [E. Bertram, M. Herzog, Powers of cycle-classes in symmetric groups, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 94 (2001) 87-99].     

石墨炉原子吸收光谱法测定海藻制品中的砷

应用石墨炉原子吸收光谱技术建立了在海藻制品中测定总砷和三价无机砷的方法,为开展海藻制品中无机砷的监测和食品安全风险评估提供准确的检测方法。采用湿法消解和微波消解为测定总砷的前处理方式,9m ol/L盐酸浸泡后乙酸丁酯萃取和纯水反萃取作为海藻制品中三价无机砷的提取方式,分别利用塞曼扣背景和氘灯扣背景的石墨炉原子吸收光谱法测定总砷和三价无机砷。塞曼扣背景测定砷的线性范围为3.0—60μg/L,定量限(LOQ)为2.9μg/L,精密度为3.6%,回收率为90%—102%;氘灯扣背景测定砷的线性范围为4.0—80μg/L,定量限(LOQ)为3.6μg/L,精密度为4.1%,回收率为88%—109%。本法对三价无机砷的提取方法简便实用、提取效率高。原子吸收光谱法的两种背景校正方式测定总砷及三价无机砷的结果准确可靠。为基层实验室开展食品中总砷以及三价无机砷的测定提供实用、可靠的分析方法。     

ICP-AES同时测定水产品中的稀土元素

研究了 P50 7萃淋树脂预富集分离样品 ,试液用 ICP- AES法同时测定水产品中稀土元素 La、Sm、Y、Nd的新方法。在选定的最佳条件下测 La、Sm、Y、Nd的检出限分别为 0 .0 0 5 2、0 .0 0 70、0 .0 0 93、0 .0 16 1μg·m L-1,回收率为 93.4 %— 10 2 .5 % ,RSD为 1.3%— 3.6 %。该法准确、快速、简便 ,应用于水产品的测定 ,结果满意