In recent years, with the emergence of new methods and technologies in traditional Chinese medicines metabolism, the relationship between medicine metabolism and cytochrome P450 has gradually been revealed. The research on P450 drug metabolizing enzymes can be used to predict the side effects of traditional Chinese medicines and explore the relationship between compatibility of medicines and toxicity reducing and efficacy enhancing. This paper aims to summarize the progress of CYP450 research, the mechanism of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes in the process of drug-metabolism and the relationship between CYP450 and medicine hepatotoxicity. Furthermore, we set out the regulation effects of typical traditional Chinese medicines on CYP450 to provide a reliable basis for the rational use of Chinese medicines.
Keywords: CYP450; hepatotoxicity; traditional Chinese medicine.
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