Drug discovery from traditional Chinese herbal medicine using high content imaging technology

• 作者: Min Fu
• 来源期刊: 中医科学杂志（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Review
• 页码范围: 198-204
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 中文

摘要

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely used in China and other Asia countries for thou-sands of years to treat or prevent human diseases. Chinese herbal medicine, one of the most important components of TCM, has unique diversities in chemical components, and thus results in a wide range of biological activities. However, pharmaceutical industry is facing a major challenge to develop a large population of novel natural products and drugs, and considerable efforts have not resulted in high-volume of novel drug discovery and productivity. At present, increasing attention has been paid to Chinese herb medicine modernization in combination with the cutting-age technologies of drug dis-covery, especially the high throughput selection. High content imaging is an image-based high throughput screening method by using automated microscopy and image analysis software to capture and analyze phenotypes at a large scale to investigate multiple biological features simultaneously in the biological complex. Here, we described the pipeline of the state-of-the-art high content imaging tech-nology, summarized the applications of the high content imaging technology in drug discovery from traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and finally discussed the current challenges and future perspectives for development of high throughput image-based screening technology in novel drug research and discovery.