Novel application of neural network modelling for multicomponent herbal medicine optimization

Abstract The conventional method for effective or toxic chemical substance identification of multicomponent herbal medicine is based on single component separation, which is time-consuming, labor intensive, inefficient, and neglects the interaction and integrity among the components; therefore, it i...

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Auteurs principaux: Yong-Shen Ren, Lei Lei, Xin Deng, Yao Zheng, Yan Li, Jun Li, Zhi-Nan Mei
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/c60c8f784d02487a991d241f3a15c37a
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Résumé:Abstract The conventional method for effective or toxic chemical substance identification of multicomponent herbal medicine is based on single component separation, which is time-consuming, labor intensive, inefficient, and neglects the interaction and integrity among the components; therefore, it is necessary to find an alternative routine to evaluate the components more efficiently and scientifically. In this study, sodium aescinate injection (SAI), obtained from different manufacturers and prepared as “components knockout” samples, was chosen as the case study. The chemical fingerprints of SAI were obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography to provide the chemical information. The effectiveness and irritation of each sample were evaluated using anti-inflammatory and irritation tests, and then “Gray correlation” analysis (GCA) was applied to rank the effectiveness and irritability of each component to provide a preliminary judgment for product optimization. The prediction model of the proportions of the expected components was constructed using the artificial neural network. The results of the GCA showed that the irritation sorting of each SAI component was in the order of B > A > G > J > I > H > D > F > E > C and the effectiveness sorting of SAI components was in the order of D > C > B > A > F > E > H > I > G > J; the predictive proportion of SAI was optimized by the BP neural network as A: B: C: D: E: F = 0.7526: 0.5005: 5.4565: 1.4149: 0.8113: 1.0642. This study provided a scientific, accurate, reliable, and efficient approach for the proportion optimization of multicomponent drugs, which has a good prospect of popularization and application in product upgrading and development of herbal medicine.