[Research and application of hepatotoxicity evaluation technique of traditional Chinese medicine].

The safety of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has received the widespread attention in recent years. Hepatotoxicity of TCM is one of the key problems of the safety of TCM. This article summarized research progress and application prospect in the mechanism of TCM hepatotoxicity, biomarkers, toxic omics database, prevention of hepatotoxicity of the liver cell lines, subcellular fraction, three-dimensional cultivation models, the model animals, aiming to provide theoretical basis for TCM toxicity evaluation and technical guidelines, thus promoting the development of TCM toxicity studies. Hope for Chinese medicine liver toxicity evaluation method provides the theoretical foundation and technical guidelines, promote the development and improvement of TCM liver toxicity research system.
Competing Interests: The authors of this article and the planning committee members and staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
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