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Molecular Imaging in Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy for Neurological Diseases
- Source :
- BioMed Research International, BioMed Research International, Vol 2013 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- With the speeding tendency of aging society, human neurological disorders have posed an ever increasing threat to public health care. Human neurological diseases include ischemic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injury, which are induced by impairment or specific degeneration of different types of neurons in central nervous system. Currently, there are no more effective treatments against these diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is focused on, which can provide new strategies for the therapy in neurological disorders. TCM, including Chinese herb medicine, acupuncture, and other nonmedication therapies, has its unique therapies in treating neurological diseases. In order to improve the treatment of these disorders by optimizing strategies using TCM and evaluate the therapeutic effects, we have summarized molecular imaging, a new promising technology, to assess noninvasively disease specific in cellular and molecular levels of living models in vivo, that was applied in TCM therapy for neurological diseases. In this review, we mainly focus on applying diverse molecular imaging methodologies in different TCM therapies and monitoring neurological disease, and unveiling the mysteries of TCM.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Central nervous system
Acupuncture Therapy
Alternative medicine
MEDLINE
lcsh:Medicine
Review Article
Traditional Chinese medicine
Disease
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Acupuncture
medicine
Humans
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Intensive care medicine
Spinal cord injury
General Immunology and Microbiology
business.industry
lcsh:R
Parkinson Disease
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Molecular Imaging
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Nervous System Diseases
Molecular imaging
business
Drugs, Chinese Herbal
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23146141 and 23146133
- Volume :
- 2013
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BioMed Research International
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c5a86b9afb7bae95ee8dfda4023c594c