Strategy and Mechanism for Controlling Direction of Defect Evolution in Graphene: Preparation of High-Quality DefectHealed and Hierarchically Porous Graphene Kecheng Cao,a Yin Tian, a Yongzhi Zhang,b Xiaodan Yang, a Chiyao Bai, a Yue Luo, a Xiaosheng Zhao, a Lijian Ma, a,* and Shoujian Li a,* a College of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Radiation Physics & Technology, and b Institute of New Energy...

BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY As a novel drug in the treatment of cardiac diseases, dl-praeruptorin A (Pd-Ia) is the major active component of traditional herbal medicine Peucedanum praeruptorum Dunn and is metabolized primarily via cytochrome P450 isozymes (CYP) 3A1 and 3A2 in rats. In the present study, the influence of liver cirrhosis on pharmacokinetics of Pd-Ia and hepatic mRNA e...

There is increasing interest in the use of herbal products to maintain human health. Plants contain a wide variety of compounds that may have biological activities including anticancer effect (Boik, 2001). There are many kinds of herbal plants in the Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Some of them have been used for the treatment of patients who are affected with insomnia, severe infections, or en...

Soil properties affect plant growth and cause variation in leaf functional traits. Lycium ruthenicum Murray is one of the desert dominant shrubs halophytes lower reaches Heihe River, Northwest China. We analyzed trade-off relationships 14 traits eight L. populations growing at varying distances from river discussed effects that soil have on The results showed that: Lower nitrogen (N) content in...