Table 4 Associated pathways of 20 vital medicinal herbs.

From: A network pharmacology-based approach to explore mechanism of action of medicinal herbs for alopecia treatment

Associated pathway

Frequency

Metabolic pathways

15

Glycerophospholipid metabolism

11

Endocytosis

10

Nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism

6

Choline metabolism in cancer

5

Ether lipid metabolism

5

RAS signaling pathway

5

Glutamatergic synapse

4

Purine metabolism

4

Pyrimidine metabolism

4

Chemokine signaling pathway

3

Hedgehog signaling pathway

3

Morphine addiction

3

Olfactory transduction

3

Parathyroid hormone synthesis, secretion, and action

3

Pathways in cancer

3

Phospholipase D signaling pathway

3

Alpha-linolenic acid metabolism

2

Antifolate resistance

2

Arachidonic acid metabolism

2

cAMP signaling pathway

2

Cholinergic synapse

2

Fat digestion and absorption

2

Fc γ R-mediated phagocytosis

2

GnRH signaling pathway

2

Linoleic acid metabolism

2

MAPK signaling pathway

2

Pancreatic cancer

2

Pancreatic secretion

2

Phosphonate and phosphinate metabolism

2

Sphingolipid signaling pathway

2

Vascular smooth muscle contraction

2

Amoebiasis

1

Autophagy-animal

1

Central carbon metabolism in cancer

1

Dopaminergic synapse

1

EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance

1

Gastric cancer

1

Glycerolipid metabolism

1

GnRH secretion

1

Mitophagy—animal

1

Pantothenate and CoA biosynthesis

1

Phagosome

1

Phosphatidylinositol signaling system

1

PI3K-Akt signaling pathway

1

Prostate cancer

1

Rap1 signaling pathway

1

Regulation of actin cytoskeleton

1

Relaxin signaling pathway

1

Riboflavin metabolism

1

Salmonella infection

1

Signaling pathways regulating pluripotency of stem cells

1

Starch and sucrose metabolism

1

Tuberculosis

1

  1. Sorted by the frequency of pathways presented in Table 3.
  2. GnRH gonadotropin-releasing hormone.