The COE Program at University of Toyama / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

The outline of COE program at University of Toyama entitled “Advanced Approach to Personalized Medicine Based on Oriental Philosophy” was presented. This program consists of two parts, i.e., basic research group and clinical research group. On the basic researches, we performed field work for natural resources of medicinal plants both in Mongolia and China. And we revealed the differences of the chemical ingredients in rhubarb family. Furthermore, we developped a new DNA microarray to detect the panax ginseng family. In this paper, we also reported that the chemical ingredients of medicinal herbs convert new substances by the action of intestinal bacterias. In the clinical research group, we revealed that the characteristic protein pattern of “blood stagnant (Oketsu) syndrome” in Kampo medicine by means of protein chip array system. We showed the result of the midway evaluation by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.