Literatures at home and abroad were collected and pharmacology studies of berberine on treatment of digestive diseases were summarized. Berberine has still huge potential for treatment of peptic ulcer, gastritis, enteritis and other applications, and it has promising prospect in development and utilization.

The prediction accuracy and generalization of GSH fermentation process modeling are often deteriorated by noise existing in the corresponding experimental data. In order to avoid this problem, we present a novel RBF neural network modeling approach based on entropy criterion. It considers the whole distribution structure of the training data set in the parameter learning process compared with the traditional MSE-criterion based parameter learning, and thus effectively avoids the weak generalization and over-learning. Then the proposed approach is applied to the GSH fermentation process modeling. Our results demonstrate that this proposed method has better prediction accuracy, generalization and robustness such that it offers a potential application merit for the GSH fermentation process modeling.
Candida ; growth & development ; metabolism ; Entropy ; Fermentation ; Glutathione ; biosynthesis ; Neural Networks (Computer)