Intestinal bacterial transformation - a nonnegligible part of Chinese medicine research.

Intestinal bacteria play an essential part in the metabolism of the constituents of herbal drugs, and a lot of investigations have been done to unveil their functions and mechanisms in modification of these constituents and their effect. This review provides a progressive description of intestinal bacterial transformation with respect to properties, reactions, correlation with the effect of herbal drugs, research interests, and methodology. In addition, the problems encountered during the investigation are addressed and perspectives are proposed.

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Ru-Feng Wang, Ming Yuan, Xin-Bao Yang, Wei Xu, Xiu-Wei Yang. Intestinal bacterial transformation - a nonnegligible part of Chinese medicine research. Journal of Asian natural products research. 2013;15(5):532-49

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