BACKGROUND Lianhuaqingwen Capsule (LH-C) is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula used to treat respiratory tract infectious diseases in Chinese. The aim of this study was to determine the antiviral activity of LH-C and its immunomodulatory effects on viral infection. METHOD The in vitro cytotoxicity and antiviral activity of LH-C was determined by MTT and Plaque reduction assays. Time...

22 Male Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) housed in long days (LD), but not short 23 days (SD) release luteinizing hormone (LH) when exposed to females. This study examined 24 whether this response is specific to a female and identifies the source of a stimulus that induces 25 LH release. Serum concentrations of LH, testosterone (T), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), 26 and cortisol were ...

In polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), increased luteinizing hormone (LH) pulse frequency has been attributed to either the hypothalamic gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse generator or ovarian oestrogen feedback. To address this issue, a detailed examination of pulsatile LH secretion was undertaken during recovery from GnRH agonist (GnRHa) suppression. Each of six women with PCOS and si...

Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH), a newly discovered hypothalamic RFamide peptide, inhibits reproductive activity by decreasing gonadotropin synthesis and release in birds. The gene of the mammalian RFamide-related peptides (RFRP) is orthologous to the GnIH gene. This Rfrp gene gives rise to the two biologically active peptides RFRP-1 (NPSF) and RFRP-3 (NPVF), and i.c.v. injections of RFR...

Brain hormones exquisitely regulate the secretion of hormones secreted by the pituitary gland that affect onset of puberty and reproductive function in pigs. Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) is a hypothalamic 10-amino acid peptide produced by a small placode of LHRH neurons (~1,500) that is crucial for gonadotropin (LH and follicle stimulating hormone, FSH) release by the pituitary ...

The objective of this study was to determine whether patterns of LH secretion are acutely or chronically affected by the presence of mature bulls in postpartum first-calf suckled beef cows exposed to bulls either continuously or intermittently beginning on d 30 after birth. Crossbred cows were assigned randomly to be either continuously exposed to (BE; n = 20) or isolated from bulls (NE; n = 32...

Abstract Background Although laparoscopic hepatectomy (LH) is associated with improved short-term outcomes compared to open (OH), it unknown whether frail patients also benefit from LH. The aim of this study was evaluate the impact frailty on postoperative after LH and OH. Methods Consecutive who underwent OH between January 2011 December 2018 were identified a prospective database. Frailty ass...

Abstract Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of gastrointestinal tract resulted from incomplete closure omphalomesenteric tube between 5th-7th intrauterine week. The incidence MD reported to be around 2% in general population. generally asymptomatic during life and symptoms are observed 1% patients. rarely found within hernial sac which known as Littre hernia (L...

LH* generalizes Linear Hsshing to parallel or distributed RAM and disk files. An LH* file can be created from objects provided by any number of distributed and autonomous clients. It can grow gracefully, one bucket at a time, to virtually any number of servers. The number of messages per insertion is one in general, and three in the worst case. The number of messages per retrieval is two in gen...

Patient A was a 30-year-old white woman with a longstanding history of primary amenorrhea and infertility. By age 18 the patient had neither menstruated nor demonstrated evidence of normal breast development. At that time she was given oral contraceptives for four cycles and responded with normal vaginal bleeding. Laboratory evaluation at age 18 demonstrated a serum FSH (follicle-stimulating ho...