为了进一步阐明定坤丹的药效作用机制,海军军医大学张卫东教授团队开展了系列针对性研究,并先后在Biomedical Chromatography杂志发表题为“Systematic characterization of the chemical constituents in vitro and prototypes in vivo of Dingkun Dan by UPLC-Q-TOF/MSE combined with the UNIFITM software”和“In vivo and in vitro metabolism study of traditional Chinese medicine formula Dingkun Dan in rats by using ultra performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry”的两篇研究论文,揭示了定坤丹的药效物质基础。