Ze Wang, Haihua Shang, Yazhuo Li, Chen Zhang, Yan Dong, Tao Cui, Hongbing Zhang, Xiaoyan Ci, Xiulin Yi, Tiejun Zhang, Fengying Yan, Yaping Zhang, Xing Huang, Weidang Wu, Changxiao Liu
Various medicinal ingredients with different tastes are combined according to the theory of compatibility in Chinese materia medica to achieve a better efficacy, while the mechanism was not very clear. Here, the authors studied the interaction between ingredients and human transporters such as the kidney transporters OAT1 and OAT3, the liver transporters OATP1B1 and OATP1B3, and the intestine transporter OATP2B1 to discern the compatibility mechanism of ingredients with different tastes in the Yuanhuzhitong preparation (YHP) comprising Corydalis yanhusuo (CYH) and Angelica dahurica (AD), which could relieve pain by restraining the central system...
September 2020: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica. B