BACKGROUND Consumers are increasingly turning to plant-based complementary and alternative medicines to treat hypercholesterolemia. Many of these treatments are untested and their efficacy is unknown. This multitude of potential remedies necessitates a model system amenable to testing large numbers of organisms that maintains similarity to humans in both mode of drug administration and overall ...

Hawthorn is an important medicine food homology (MFH) species. Charred hawthorn (CH) derived from the thermal processing of raw (RH). Traditional Chinese theory suggests that CH has a stronger effect to promote digestion than RH. In this study, based on functional dyspepsia (FD) model in rats, effects RH and gastrointestinal motility were investigated, mechanism action was revealed perspectives...

The abundance of scientific evidence has shown that many synthetic drugs can cause serious adverse effects in patients. Recently, the search of natural therapeutic agents with low adverse effects has attracted much attention. In particular, considerable interest has focused on edible and medicinal plants, which play an important role in human diet, and have been used for disease treatment since...

Hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha) is a widely used Chinese herb for treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and heart problems and consumed as food. In North America, the role of treatment for heart problems dates back to 1800. Currently, evidence is accumulating from various in vivo and in vitro studies that hawthorn extracts exert a wide range of cardiovascular pharmacological properties, includ...

The application of photonics to astronomy offers major advantages in the area of highly-multiplexed spectroscopy, especially when applied to extremely large telescopes. These include the suppression of the near-infrared night-sky spectrum [J. Bland-Hawthorn et al, Opt. Express 12, 5902 (2004), S. G. Leon-Saval et al, Opt. Lett. 30, 2545 (2005)] and the miniaturisation of spectrographs so that t...

Extracts from different parts of hawthorn plants (Crataegus spp.) are used worldwide for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. So far, almost all clinical studies have been conducted with standardized hydroalcoholic extracts from leaves and flowers. These trials with more than 4000 patients have provided evidence for clinical benefits in the therapy of mild chronic heart failure. Besides ca...

Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia, 2 The Voices Clinic, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Alfred Hospital and Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Psychiatry, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, Orygen: The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 5 The Centre f...

6. Hawthorn (Crataegus species) 6.1. Clinical studies 6.1.1. Cardiac insufficiency 6.2. In vitro and in vivo studies 6.2.1. Inotropic effects 6.2.2. Antiarrhyythmic effects 6.2.3. Ischemic-reperfusion injury 6.2.4. Vasodilation and coronary blood flow 6.2.5. Antihypertensive effects 6.2.6. Antioxidant effects 7. Red wine (Vitis vinifera) and resveratrol

The title compound, C(12)H(14)O(3), is a natural product derived from the medium-sized hawthorn Crataegus persimilis ('prunifolia'). The mean plane of the butene moiety is twisted by 13.27 (7)° with respect to the that of the dioxobenzaldehyde moiety. There is an intra-molecular hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl group and the carbonyl O atom.

1ARC Special Research Center for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia 2Center for Advanced Internet Architectures, Faculty of I.C.T., Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia 3Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Kowlo...