Toxicology effects of Morning Glory Seed in rat: A metabonomic method for profiling of urine metabolic changes

Morning Glory Seed (MGS) is a valuable traditional Chinese medicine which is widely used for the treatment of edema, ascites, hydroncus, simple obesity, lung fever and ardent fever. In recent years, long-term exposure to Morning Glory Seed (MGS) has shown to pose progressive renal damage in clinical practice. We hypothesize that changes in metabolic profile could have occurred before symptoms were observed, which may allow early treatment. To...