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Molecular Imaging in Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy for Neurological Diseases

Authors :
Jinhui Li
Hong Zhang
Mei Tian
Zefeng Wang
Haitong Wan
Source :
BioMed Research International, BioMed Research International, Vol 2013 (2013)
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Hindawi Limited, 2013.

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.

Details

ISSN :
23146141 and 23146133
Volume :
2013
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
BioMed Research International
Accession number :
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