With the development of molecular biology, genome science becomes an important subject currently. Characterized by high-throughput, high-integration, high-parallelism, miniaturization and automation, it is the integrated study of gene properties on a large scale. Stroke, an important cerebral vascular disease, is one of the threats to human health. The utilization of microarray study for the pathogenesis of stroke, not only reveals the essentials of the disease in the overall level of genes, but also contributes to the detection of therapeutic targets and the development of novel drugs for stroke. Referring to our own work, this discussion focuses on the progress of the mechanisms underlying experimental cerebral ischemia investigation in vivo as well as anti-cerebral ischemia agents by gene chip technology.
Animals ; Brain ; blood supply ; Brain Ischemia ; genetics ; metabolism ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; pharmacology ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 ; metabolism ; Interleukin-6 ; metabolism ; Ischemic Preconditioning ; Neovascularization, Physiologic ; drug effects ; Neuroprotective Agents ; pharmacology ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; methods ; Reperfusion Injury ; genetics ; metabolism ; Stroke ; genetics ; metabolism

To investigate the chemical constituents of the processed rhizomes of Panax notoginseng, their 70% ethanol extract was chromatographed on macroporous resin (SP825), silica gel, RP-C18 and semi-preparative HPLC to afford compounds 1-23. On the basis of physicochemical properties and spectral data analysis, their structures were identified to be 6'-O-Acetylginsenoside Rh1 (1), ginsenoside RK3 (2), ginsenoside Rh4 (3), 20S-ginsenoside Rg3 (4), ginsenoside Rk1 (5), 20R-ginsenoside Rg3 (6), ginsenoside Rg5 (7), ginsenoside F2 (8), 20S-ginsenoside Rh1 (9), 20R-ginsenoside Rh1 (10), gypenoside X VII (11), notoginsenoside Fa, (12), ginsenoside Ra3 (13), ginsenoside Rg1 (14), ginsenoside Re (15), notoginsenoside R2 (16), ginsenoside Rg2 (17), notoginsenoside R1 (18), ginsenoside Rd (19), ginsenoside Rb1 (20), notoginsenoside D (21), notoginsenoside R4 (22) and ginsenoside Rb2 (23), respectively. Among them, compound 1 was isolated from P. notoginseng for the first time, and compounds 4, 6, 8 and 11 were isolated from the processed P. notoginseng for the first time. According to the fingerprint profiles of raw and processed P. notoginseng, the putative chemical conversion pathways of panoxatriol and panoxadiol compounds in the processing procedure was deduced, and the results revealed the main reactions to be dehydration and glycosyl hydrolysis.
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Drug Compounding ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; chemistry ; Molecular Structure ; Panax ; chemistry ; Rhizome ; chemistry ; Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization