Publications by authors named "Zhao-zhou Lin"

In our study, a method based on affinity ultrafiltration screening coupled with UPLC-ESI-Orbitrap-MS technology was established to select Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists from natural products, and as an example, the GLP-1R agonists from was selected using our established method. As a result, total five GLP-1R agonists were selected from for the first time. Our results indicated that activating GLP-1R to promote insulin secretion probably was another important hypoglycemia mechanism for ginsenosides in , which had great influence on the study of the anti-diabetes effect of ginsenosides.

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is a traditional Chinese medicine with multiple pharmacological activities. Modern pharmacological research has found that extract has an inhibitory effect on α-glucosidase, however, which component can inhibit the activity of α-glucosidase and its degree of inhibition are unknown. To address this issue, this study used affinity ultrafiltration screening combined with UPLC-ESI-Orbitrap-MS technology to screen α-glucosidase inhibitors in .

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  • Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium is a traditional Chinese medicine known for its high health benefits and clinical value, primarily due to its active secondary metabolites, which are flavonoids.
  • A new method was developed to comprehensively analyze these flavonoids using a targeted MS/MS approach, which involved creating a database of known flavonoids and locking onto their precursor ions.
  • Through this analysis, a total of 187 flavonoids were identified from the Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, including some chalcones that had not been characterized before, expanding the understanding of its chemical composition.
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This paper aims to study the therapeutic effect of Massa Medicata Fermentata on hyperlipidemia model rats and investigate its mechanism of hypolipidemic effect with the help of non-targeted metabolomics. The mixed hyperlipidemia model rats were constructed by giving high-fat chow. After successful modeling, the rats were divided into the model group, pravastatin sodium group(4.

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We here describe a new method for distinguishing authentic from similar decoctions (namely, , , and ). Preliminary identification and analysis of four types of decoction pieces were conducted following the and local standards. Intelligent sensory data were then collected using an electronic nose, an electronic tongue, and an electronic eye, and chromatography data were obtained via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

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Background: Evaluating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) quality is a powerful method to ensure TCM safety. TCM quality evaluation methods primarily include characterization evaluations and separate physical, chemical, and biological evaluations; however, these approaches have limitations. Nevertheless, researchers have recently integrated evaluation methods, advancing the emergence of frontier research tools, such as TCM quality markers (Q-markers).

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  • The shift in pharmaceutical manufacturing is moving towards continuous and intelligent processes, particularly in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), enhancing efficiency and quality consistency.
  • Key technologies like material property characterization and process modeling are crucial for developing continuous manufacturing systems in TCM, emphasizing the need for high-speed, reliable equipment.
  • A maturity assessment model focusing on operation, equipment, process, and quality control continuity is proposed to guide the effective application of continuous manufacturing in TCM.
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was a traditional Chinese medicine with various pharmacological activities and one of its important activities was hypoglycemic activity; therefore, has been used in China as an adjuvant in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. In vivo and in vitro tests have revealed that ginsenosides, which are derived from the roots and rhizomes of have anti-diabetic effects and produce different hypoglycemic mechanisms by acting on some specific molecular targets, such as SGLT1, GLP-1, GLUTs, AMPK, and FOXO1. α-Glucosidase is another important hypoglycemic molecular target, and its inhibitors can inhibit the activity of α-Glucosidase so as to delay the absorption of dietary carbohydrates and finally reduce postprandial blood sugar.

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is widely used in Asian countries and its active constituents-ginsenosides-need to be systematically studied. However, only a small part of ginsenosides have been characterized in the roots and rhizomes of (RRPG) up to date, mainly because of a lack of the fragmentation ions of many more ginsenosides. In order to comprehensively identify ginsenosides in RRPG, molecular features of ginsenosides orienting precursor ions selection and targeted tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) analysis strategy were proposed in our study, in which the precursor ions were selected according to the molecular features of ginsenosides irrespective of their peak abundances, and targeted MS/MS analysis was then performed to obtain their fragmentation ions for substance characterization.

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The effect of Danhong Injection on the endogenous metabolites of rabbit platelets was analyzed by the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry( LC-MS) based metabonomic approach. Anti-platelet aggregation was detected after Danhong Injection treatment and the changes of platelet metabolites were analyzed by metabonomics. Principal component analysis( PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis( PLS-DA) were performed to investigate the effect of Danhong Injection on endogenous metabolites of platelets,characterize the biomarkers,and explore the relevant pathways and the underlying mechanism.

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The quality of traditional Chinese medicine tablets is correlated with clinical efficacy and drug safety, and plays a great role in promoting the development of traditional Chinese medicine. However, the existing traditional artificial identification and modern instrument detection in terms of accuracy and timeliness have both advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, how to quickly and accurately identify the quality of traditional Chinese medicine tablets has become a high-profile issue.

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Along with the striding of the Chinese medicine(CM) manufacturing toward the Industry 4.0, some digital factories have accumulated lightweight industrial big data, which become part of the enterprise assets. These digital assets possess the possibility of solving the problems within the CM production system, like the Sigma gap and the poverty of manufacturing knowledge.

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  • The study investigates in-source fragmentation of ginsenosides in positive ESI mode (pISF-G), which presents challenges for identifying their structures and emphasizes the need for understanding this process for better Ginseng quality control.
  • Using advanced high-resolution mass spectrometry techniques, researchers were able to identify specific ion clusters from protonated sapogenins, which helped classify different types of ginsenosides.
  • Through chemometric analysis of chromatogram data, 35 marker compounds were identified that enabled the differentiation of various Ginseng species and compound formulas, highlighting the potential for enhanced Ginseng authentication.
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'Quality evaluation based on color grading' is one of the features used in Chinese medicine discrimination. In order to assess the feasibility of electronic eye (E-eye) in implementing 'quality evaluation based on color grading', the present study applied an IRIS VA400 E-eye to test 58 batches of Corni Fructus samples. Their optical data were acquired and combined with their corresponding classes.

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Blending process, which is an essential part of the pharmaceutical preparation, has a direct influence on the homogeneity and stability of solid dosage forms. With the official release of Guidance for Industry PAT, online process analysis techniques have been more and more reported in the applications in blending process, but the research on endpoint detection algorithm is still in the initial stage. By progressively increasing the window size of moving block standard deviation (MBSD), a novel endpoint detection algorithm was proposed to extend the plain MBSD from off-line scenario to online scenario and used to determine the endpoint in the blending process of Chinese medicine dispensing granules.

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Feature selection can improve the interpretation of the modeling variables to a certain extent by selecting variables from the complex spectra backgrounds. However, the improvement of models interpretation does not mean that the modeling variables have the exact physical or chemical significance. In this paper, We explore the relation between the chemical characteristics of target components and the spectrum variables selected with 3 kinds of variables selection methods which are moving window partial least squares regression (mwPLS), synergy interval partial least squares regression (siPLS) and competitive adaptive re-weighted sampling (CARS), and compare the interpretation difference of the variables selected with the above variables selection methods.

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The appropriate algorithm for calibration set selection was one of the key technologies for a good NIR quantitative model. There are different algorithms for calibration set selection, such as Random Sampling (RS) algorithm, Conventional Selection (CS) algorithm, Kennard-Stone(KS) algorithm and Sample set Portioning based on joint x-y distance (SPXY) algorithm, et al. However, there lack systematic comparisons between two algorithms of the above algorithms.

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A highly sensitive and effective strategy for rapid screening and identification of target constituents has been developed using full scan-parent ions list-dynamic exclusion (FS-PIL-DE) acquisition coupled to diagnostic product ions (DPIs) analysis on a hybrid LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer. The FS-PIL-DE was adopted as a survey scan to trigger the MS/MS acquisition of all the predictable constituents contained in traditional Chinese medicines. Additionally, DPIs analysis can provide a criterion to judge the target constituents detected into certain chemical families.

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Portable near infrared spectrometer combined with multi-class support vector machines was used to discriminate wolfberry fruit of different geographic regions. Data pre-processing methods were explored before modeling with the identification rate as indicator. To eliminate the influence of sample subset partitioning on model performance, multiple modeling and predicting were conducted and the statistical result of identification rate was utilized to assess model performance of different acquisition sites.

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The philosophy of quality by design (QbD) is now leading the changes in the drug manufacturing mode from the conventional test-based approach to the science and risk based approach focusing on the detailed research and understanding of the production process. Along with the constant deepening of the understanding of the manufacturing process, the design space will be determined, and the emphasis of quality control will be shifted from the quality standards to the design space. Therefore, the establishment of the design space is core step in the implementation of QbD, and it is of great importance to study the methods for building the design space.

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