Published, JBC Papers in Press, July 27, 2009, DOI 10.1074/jbc.R109.040543 Jianqi Yang, Satish C. Kalhan, and Richard W. Hanson From the Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4936 and the Departments of Pathobiology and Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleve...

Pankaj Arora, Anita Bhavnani, Tamorish Kole and Chris Curry Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Accident & Emergency Services, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India; and Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Western Australia...

Bronchial Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Successfully Treated with Rituximab Eid AlQurashi1,2, Shikha Mittoo3, Zahi Touma4, Shane Shapera5, Theodore K Marras5,6 and Muhammad Sohail Anjum7* 1Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, King Abdullah Medical City, Saudi Arabia 2Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University of Toronto, Toronto...

Traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine have their distinctive superiorities, and are mutually complementary in spite of their different systems of theory. The integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine can promote the development of medical science. Over the past 40 years, a number of great achievements have been made in the field of the integratio...

1 in human hepatoma cells. 2 3 Carly E. Herbison, Ketil Thorstensen, Anita CG Chua, Ross M. Graham, Peter 4 Leedman, John K Olynyk and Debbie Trinder 5 6 School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Fremantle Hospital, 7 Fremantle, Western Australia, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Nedlands, 8 Western Australia, Department of Medical Biochemistry,...

For thousands of years, Chinese medicine and conventional Western medicine appeared to be two unrelated and uncompromising paradigms. The history of acupuncture can be traced back for more than 2500 years but today we can use advanced technology to understand ancient healing methods. Acupuncture should not be used to compete with efficacious treatment modalities that are already available in co...

1Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA; 2Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA; 3Instituto de Quimica Medica, Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (IQM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain; 4Department of Biological Sciences, Case Western Reserve U...

Contemporary Western medicine has witnessed a fragmentation of our conceptualization of the medical endeavor into 'traditional medicine' and 'non-traditional medicine'. The former is meant to refer to the Western medical tradition, the latter encompasses both 'complementary' and 'alternative' medical practices. Complementary medicine complements conventional medical treatments, and alternative ...

Objectives. Korean medicine, an integrated allopathic and traditional medicine, has developed unique characteristics and has been active in contributing to evidence-based medicine. Recent developments in Korean medicine have not been as well disseminated as traditional Chinese medicine. This introduction to recent developments in Korean medicine will draw attention to, and facilitate, the advan...

This paper is an investigation of the degree of incommensurability between Western scientific medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, focusing on the practice and theory of acupuncture. We describe the structure of traditional Chinese medicine, oriented around such concepts as yin, yang, qi, and xing, and discuss how the conceptual and explanatory differences between Western medicine and tra...