Ethnopharmacology
Studies from China Pharmaceutical University reveal new findings on ethnopharmacology
Published in Medical Device Business Week, February 7th, 2007
A new study, "Nephrotoxicity study of total rhubarb anthraquinones on Sprague Dawley rats using DNA microarrays," is now available. Researchers in People's Republic of China conducted a study "Total rhubarb anthraquinones (TRAs) are the active therapeutic components from the rhizomes of Rheum palmatum L. (Polygonaceae), which are widely used in traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and have been reported to have cell toxicity recently."
"This study focuses on the toxicity of TRAs on Sprague Dawley (S.D.) rats. TRAs administrated per os for 13 weeks induced nephrotoxicity on S.D. rats as renal tubule epithelial cells swelled and denatured in tissue slice examination,"...
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