Anti-ageing Active Ingredients from Herbs and Nutraceuticals Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Pharmacological Mechanisms and Implications for Drug Discovery

Overview

Journal Br J Pharmacol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2016 Sep 24

PMID 27659301

Citations 103

Authors

Chun-Yan Shen

Jian-Guo Jiang

Li Yang

Da-Wei Wang

Wei Zhu

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Abstract

Linked Articles: This article is part of a themed section on Principles of Pharmacological Research of Nutraceuticals. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v174.11/issuetoc.

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