BACKGROUND Low health literacy (HL) has been known to be involved in various risk behaviors and mental disorder among adolescent. The purpose of this study was to examine the independent and interactive association between HL and self-reported mental health with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in Chinese middle school students. METHODS Twenty five thousand three hundred seventy-eight junior a...

Plants load sugars from photosynthesizing leaves into the phloem of exporting veins either "apoplastically" (by using H+/sucrose symporters) or "symplastically" (through plasmodesmata). The ability to regulate photosynthesis in response to the light environment was compared among apoplastic loaders (pea and spinach) and symplastic loaders (pumpkin and Verbascum phoeniceum). Plants were grown un...

the computation of structural failure probability is vital importance in the reliability analysis and may be carried out on the basis of the first-order reliability method using various mathematical iterative approaches such as hasofer-lind and rackwitz-fiessler (hl-rf). this method may not converge in complicated problems and nonlinear limit state functions, which usually shows itself in the f...

Increased hepatic lipase (HL) activity is associated with small, dense, low density lipoprotein (LDL) and low high density lipoprotein2 (HDL2) cholesterol (-C) levels. A polymorphism in the promoter region of the HL gene (LIPC) is associated with HDL-C levels. To test whether this association is mediated by differences in HL activity between different LIPC promoter genotypes, the LIPC promoter ...

Today’s medical word is highly dependent on severel natural products (e.g. taxol) in fighting different kinds of cancer and in constantly working to found new compounds. In this respect, 3-hydrogenkwadaphnin is a new diterpene ester isolated from Dendrostellera lessertii (Thymelaceae). It has been previously shown that this new compound has high anti-tumor activity and the capability of arresti...

Low serum IgA levels were found in patients taking phenytoin, together with evidence of depressed T cell function. There was no correlation between the dose or the serum level. A correlation was found, however, with HL-A status, patients with a low IgA showing increased frequency of HL-A2. It is suggested that epileptic patients with HL-A2 status are likely to develop IgA deficiency when given ...

Hepatic lipase (HL) is a key player in lipoprotein metabolism by modulating, through its lipolytic activity, the triglyceride (TG) and phospholipid content of apolipoprotein B (apoB)-containing lipoproteins and of high density lipoproteins (HDL), thereby affecting their size and density. A new and separate role has been suggested for HL in cellular lipoprotein metabolism, in which it serves as ...

AIM To evaluate the efficacy and safety of HL tablet extracted from magnolia officinalis for treating patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). METHODS Seventy-four patients with NAFLD diagnosed by ultrasonography were randomly assigned to 3 groups given high dose (400 mg) HL tablet, low dose (133.4 mg) HL tablet and placebo, respectively, daily for 12 wk. The primary endpoint w...

Oxime extractants 3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-5-methyl benzaldehyde oxime (HL1) and 3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-5-methoxy benzaldehyde oxime (HL2) were synthesized and characterized by conventional spectroscopic methods. Suitable lipophilic nature of the prepared extractants allowed examining the ability of these molecules for extr...