Clinical Applications of Omics Technologies on ZHENG Differentiation Research in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

ABSTRACT: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) ZHENG is the basic concept of TCM theory. The effectiveness of TCM treatment depends on the accuracy of ZHENG differentiation. ZHENG differentiation, using the "four diagnostic methods," has the drawbacks of subjectivity and variability. Following development of omics technologies, which study the functional activities of human body from a system-wide perspective, it has been more and more applied in study of objectivity differentiating TCM ZHENG and understanding its biological mechanisms. This paper reviewed the literatures of clinical TCM ZHENG differentiation researches, underlying omics technologies, and indicated the increased trends of related articles with four kinds of omics technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabo

SUBMITTER: Song YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3703351 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature