BCPT perspectives on studies involving natural products, traditional Chinese medicine and systems pharmacology

Pernille Tveden-Nyborg, Baoxue Yang, Ulf Simonsen, Jens Lykkesfeldt

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Abstract

Natural products constitute a vast source of bioactive compounds with the potential of providing valuable insight for future medicines. However, from a pharmacological perspective, natural product studies are also often accompanied by serious limitations due to, for example, the complex nature of biological extracts, the challenge of reproducibly characterizing the extract and providing an exhaustive list of constituents and, consequently, the difficulties in linking the observed pharmacological effects to specific chemical entities. The present paper discusses the major challenges of studies with natural products and provides a guideline to be followed by authors submitting research findings involving data from natural products, and their derivatives, to Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology.

Original languageEnglish
JournalBasic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology
Volume135
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)782-785
Number of pages4
ISSN1742-7835
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2024

Bibliographical note

© 2024 Nordic Association for the Publication of BCPT (former Nordic Pharmacological Society). Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Biological Products/pharmacology
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal/pharmacology
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional/methods
  • Network Pharmacology

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