The Methodological Trends of Traditional Herbal Medicine Employing Network Pharmacology.

ABSTRACT: Natural products, including traditional herbal medicine (THM), are known to exert their therapeutic effects by acting on multiple targets, so researchers have employed network pharmacology methods to decipher the potential mechanisms of THM. To conduct THM-network pharmacology (THM-NP) studies, researchers have employed different tools and databases for constructing and analyzing herb-compound-target networks. In this study, we attempted to capture the methodological trends in THM-NP research. We identified the tools and databases employed to conduct THM-NP studies and visualized their combinatorial patterns. We also constructed co-author and affiliation networks to further understand how the methodologies are employed among researchers. The results showed that the number of THM-NP studies

SUBMITTER: Lee WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6723118 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature