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Evidence-Based Study to Compare Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material and Non-Daodi Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material

Table 5

Methods for assessing Daodi medicinal materials.

Methods for assessing Daodi medicinal materialsNumber (%) of studies,

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Chromatography
 Thin-layer chromatography/TLC4 (6.8%)
 High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)30 (50.8%)
 Gas chromatography (GC)10 (16.9%)
Spectrometry
 Diode array detector (DAD)8 (13.6%)
 Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR)7 (11.9%)
 Near Infrared (NIR)4 (6.8%)
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
 Mass spectra (MS)12 (20.3%)
DNA fingerprint
 Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)5 (8.5%)
 Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)1 (1.7%)
 Intersimple sequence repeat (ISSR)1 (1.7%)
 Expressed sequence tags-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR)1 (1.7%)
 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)5 (8.5%)
Characteristic fingerprint21 (35.6%)
Statistical analysis
 Cluster analysis31 (52.5%)
 Principal component analysis (PCA)5 (8.5%)
Processing methods5 (8.5%)
Others7 (11.9%)