CVDHD: a cardiovascular disease herbal database for drug discovery and network pharmacology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and associates with multiple risk factors. Herb medicines have been used to treat CVD long ago in china and several natural products or derivatives (e.g., aspirin and reserpine) are most common drugs all over the world. The objective of this work was to construct a systematic database for drug discovery based on natural products separated from CVD-related medicinal herbs and to research on action mechanism of herb medicines.

Description

The cardiovascular disease herbal database (CVDHD) was designed to be a comprehensive resource for virtual screening and drug discovery from natural products isolated from medicinal herbs for cardiovascular-related diseases. CVDHD comprises 35230 distinct molecules and thei

SUBMITTER: Gu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3878363 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature