Research traditional Chinese medicine properties by detecting rats' monoamine neurotransmitter after given two different traditional Chinese medicine / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To find out the essence of the traditional Chinese medicine properties from detecting the rats' monoamine neurotransmitter after given different traditional Chinese drug.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>The property of rhizome curcumae and radix curcumae is opposite, they were given to rats respectively for one month. Next, HPLC-ECD method was used to detect the rats' monoamine neurotransmitter in different encephalic region.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Rhizome curcumae can raise the rats' monoamine neurotransmitter, but radix curcumae inhibits the rats' monoamine neurotransmitter.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>There are correlations between the traditional Chinese medicine properties and monoamine neurotransmitter.</p>