Cathepsin and Chinese materia medica
10.7501/j.issn.0253-2670.2015.22.024
- Author:
Yang LIU
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Author Information
1. Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cathepsin;
Chinese materia medica;
Diabetes mellitus;
Endolysosome;
Tumor
- From:
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
2015;46(22):3427-3433
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Cathepsin, with various species and functions, derives from cell endolysosome. It has great impact on both sustaining eubolism and preventing diseases. Cathepsin has positive effect on human beings through its moderate expression to enhance the cells in their activation, multiplication, and metabolism. While its excessive expression might have a negative effect of inducing other diseases. Traditional Chinese herbs have been a crucial part of traditional Chinese medicine and they are various in species with less side effect, which has been paid close attention to. So far, researches about cathepsin become abundant among researchers home and abroad, while Chinese materia medica just takes up its gradual research not long before. This paper aims at briefly summarizing the latest academic researches on cathepsin home and abroad in terms of dependency structure, features of pathology and physiology as well as the intervention of traditional Chinese herbs to cathepsin in order to give a clear picture on its development.
