UNTARGETED METABOLOMICS: AN EMERGING APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE COMPOSITION OF HERBAL PRODUCTS

• الحاوية / القاعدة: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Mauro Commisso, Pamela Strazzer, Ketti Toffali, Matteo Stocchero, Flavia Guzzo
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: الإنجليزية
• منشور في: Elsevier 2013-01-01
• الموضوعات: LC-MS; herbal products; herbal intoxications; natural remedies; Daucus carota; Multivariate Analysis
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037014600507

Natural remedies, such as those based on traditional Chinese medicines, have become more popular also in western countries over the last 10 years. The composition of these herbal products is largely unknown and difficult to determine. Moreover, since plants respond to their environment changing the metabolome, the composition of plant material can vary depending on the plant growth conditions. However, there is a growing need of a deeper knowledge on such natural remedies also in view of the growing number of reports of toxicity following the consumption of herbal supplements. Untargeted metabolomics is a useful approach for the simultaneous analysis of many compounds in herbal products. In particular, liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS) can determine presence, amount and sometime structures of plant metabolites in complex herbal mixtures, with significant advantages over techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS).