| JCICM-16-02: 中草藥治療腸易激綜合症之基礎及臨床研究 |
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| 項目負責人: |
沈祖堯 教授 及 卞兆祥 博士 |
| 項目統籌: |
謝達之 醫生 |
| 機構: |
香港中文大學 及 香港浸會大學 |


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項目背景
IBS is a very common functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by recurrent abdominal pain with disturbance in bowel habit, with high prevalence of IBS in Hong Kong and elsewhere. As a common disorder, there is no effective remedy in conventional medicine. A Chinese herbal formulation was tested in double-blind and placebo-controlled trial alongside scoring of improvements over quality of life by patients. The change in brain activation was also evaluated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); technique.
產品特徵
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- A Chinese herbal formulation (patents pending; PRC) with indication of efficacy in Chinese male and female patients with more than 3 years history of IBS.
- An Integrated Research Clinic involving western clinicians and Chinese medicine practitioners for diagnosis and clinical research (using a validated questionnaire for quality of life assessment)
- Established rat research model for IBS
知識產權與專利
- Small-scale efficacy studies with both clinical and animal studies
- To enter pre-clinical development for filing IND in China and Hong Kong
- Patent pending: PRC
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