Latar Belakang : Prevalensi acne vulgaris di Indonesia cukup tinggi, yaitu berkisar antara 85-100% orang, Bakteri penyebab lain Propionibacterium acnes. acnes merupakan bakteri flora normal dengan sifat Gram positif dan anaerob dimana ini menghasilkan lipase yang memecah asam lemak bebas dari lipid kulit mengakibatkan inflamasi jaringan. Tujuan Penelitian bertujuan untuk melihat efektivitas eks...

An omni-directional fibre optic microprobe was used to measure the quantity and quality of light within the leaves of six succulents having epidermal windows, three species having a subterranean growth habit (Haworthia truncata, Lithops olivacea, and Opthalmophyllum longum) and three growing above ground (Peperomia dolabriformis, P. graveolens, and the sprawling vine Senecio rowleyanus). Althou...

Concentrations Are Increased in Women with Preterm Delivery But Not in Those Who Respond to Tocolytic Treatment, Xiao Yan Zhong, Wolfgang Holzgreve, Irene Hoesli, and Sinuhe Hahn ( Laboratory for Prenatal Medicine, University Women’s Hospital, and Department of Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 2 University Women’s Hospital, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ...

Throughout lowland Amazonia, arboreal ants collect seeds of specific plants and cultivate them in nutrient-rich nests, forming diverse yet obligate and species-specific symbioses called Neotropical ant-gardens (AGs). The ants depend on their symbiotic plants for nest stability, and the plants depend on AGs for substrate and nutrients. Although the AGs are limited to specific participants, it is...

After 120 yr of burial in moist, well-aerated sand, 23 seeds of Verbascum blattaria and two seeds of a Verbascum sp. germinated and produced normal plants (50% germination for Verbascum). After a 6-wk cold treatment, a single seed of Malva rotundifolia germinated also, producing a normal plant (2% germination). Plants were grown to maturity in a greenhouse, and flowering was induced by exposure...

BACKGROUND This paper is based on ethnobotanical interviews conducted from 1996-2000 in Trinidad and Tobago with thirty male and female respondents. METHODS A non-experimental validation was conducted on the plants used for urinary problems and diabetes mellitus: This is a preliminary step to establish that the plants used are safe or effective, to help direct clinical trials, and to inform C...

The first part of this note contains some critical remarks about the foregoing paper of Niiniluoto (1981) (to which I shall always refer unless specified otherwise). These remarks arrive at the conclusion that the systems proposed by Niiniluoto, failing to satisfy symmetry, positive instantial relevance, and the Reichenbach axiom, are more defective than seems acceptable. At least the latter tw...