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Chinese Medicine (CM) is an openly accessible journal published quarterly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for doctors and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in Chinese medicine related problems. Manuscripts can be prepared in English or…
Qing Yu, Tatsuo Takahashi, Masaaki Nomura, Shinjiro Kobayashi
The mechanisms of Gardeniae Fructus (GF) for anti-hyperglycemic action were demonstrated in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic mice. Six hours after single intraperitoneal administration of GF (300 mg/kg) or H 2 O into 3 hour-fasted STZ-diabetic mice, glucose and…
Zhengyou He, Minbo Lan, Dongying Lu, Hongli Zhao, Huihui Yuan
This study was designed to determine the total phenolic content of 50 herbs and to examine their antioxidant potential. In the sample preparation, 60% ethanol was chosen as the extraction solvent for the subsequent experiments. Folin-Cicolteau phenol reagent…
Shaodong Hua, Xiaoying Zhang, Shengli An, Xiuxiang Liu, Zhichun Feng
Background: Results from experimental and clinical studies have shown that mechanical ventilation or/and hyperoxia may aggravate a pre-existing lung injury or even cause lung injury in healthy lungs by affecting the expression of MMP-9, but the MMP-9 effects…
Peishan Xie, Shuangcheng Ma, Pengfei Tu, Zhengtao Wang, Erich Stoeger, Daniel Bensky
The emerging development of Extractive Reference Substance (ERS) is a methodology that meets the needs for quality control for Chinese Herbal Medicines (CHM) and respects the holistic viewpoint of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and its clinical use of mul…
Jiangang Fu, Ling Dai, Zhang Lin, Hongmei Lu
Houttuynia cordata Thunb is an important medicinal plant widely distributed in East Asia. The collected information is an attempt to cover recent developments in the pharmacology, phytochemistry and quality control of this species. Dur ing the past several de…
Xiaojun Chen, Xuerui Tan
Objective: To examine the association between education and blood pressure in hyper t ensive Chinese. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the health care center of a university affiliated hospital in 2008 to enroll 502 mild to moderate essential…
Jing Li, Yanyan Sun, Shiran Wang, Jian Yu, Zhanzhuang Tian
GABAergic input to Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons is necessary to initiate the onset of puberty and its action mainly depends on GABA A receptor of which the subunit composition, properties and consequently function varies during this period. N…
Huanhua Lu, Yi’nan Wang, Yiying Song, Jia Liu
Background: Holistic thinking, which is rooted in Eastern culture, is assumed to be the core of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Recently, such holistic thinking has been proposed to be applicable to Western medicine practices for alleviating serious side…
David Racine, Anshu Rastogi, Rajendra P. Bajpai
We measure ultra-weak photon signals emitted from the hand of a human subject, either spontaneously or gradually decaying after local stress has been induced with five concentrations of H 2 O 2 . We analyze the photon distributions of both spontaneous and sti…
Pou Kuan Leong, Hoi Yan Leung, Hoi Shan Wong, Jihang Chen, Chung Wah Ma, Yiting Yang, Kam Ming Ko
Obesity is a risk factor for metabolic disorders, with its prevalence being increased in the world over the past several decades. Therapeutical interventions for obesity are thus urgently needed. In the present study, we investigated the ef fect of long-term…
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