Data mining of core drug pairs from traditional Chinese medicine prescription related to nephropathy in Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2020 edition and prediction of their action targets
Objective To explore the core drug pairs from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription related to kidney disease in the first part of the 2020 edition of Chinese Pharmacopoeia (Chinese Pharmacopoeia for short),and study its mechanism of action in the treatment of kidney disease. Method Chinese Pharmacopoeia was used as the data source,and Excel was used to establish the database. Frequency analysis,association rule analysis,cluster analysis and prescription similarity analysis were performed on the database through R environment using R studio software. VOSviewer software was used to screen the hot targets related to kidney disease by bibliometric methods. Discovery Studio software was used to molecular dock between the main chemical components of the core drugs in the treatment of nephropathy and the hotspot targets of nephropathy to explore their mechanisms of action. Results The database contained 166 TCM prescriptions,347 TCMs,and the total frequency of the flavors was 1786 times. Apriori and Eclat association rules were analyzed to obtain the core drug pair of Shanyao (Dioscoreae Rhizoma)-Fuling (Poria). Cluster analysis and correlation analysis were used to obtain the core pairs of Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus)-Mudanpi (Moutan Cortex). Prescription similarity analysis obtained the core prescription Liuwei Dihuang Pills. The bibliometric study obtained the hotspot target transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and the pathway TGF-β1/Smad related to renal disease,and the molecular docking study indicated that the core pair could play a therapeutic role in the treatment of kidney disease by acting on the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway. Conclusion This study excavated the core drug pairs for the treatment of kidney disease in Chinese Pharmacopoeia,predicted their mechanism of action,and provided research ideas and methods for clinical drug guidance,new drug discovery and modernization of TCM.
Chinese Pharmacopoeianephropathytraditional Chinese medicine prescriptiondata miningbibliometricsdrug pairsDioscoreae Rhizom-PoriaCorni Fructus-Moutan CortexLiuwei Dihuang Pills
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