Analysis of common volatile constituents between herbal pair (HP) Ephedra sinica Stapf (ESS)-Zingiber officinal Rosc (ZOR)and its single herb was performed by the method of GC-MS and alternative moving window factor analysis (AMWFA). Identification of the compounds was also assisted by comparison of temperature-programmed retention indices (PTRIs) on the OV-1 column with authentic samples. AMWF...

Analysis of common volatile constituents between herbal pair (HP) Ephedra sinica Stapf (ESS)-Zingiber officinal Rosc (ZOR)and its single herb was performed by the method of GC-MS and alternative moving window factor analysis (AMWFA). Identification of the compounds was also assisted by comparison of temperature-programmed retention indices (PTRIs) on the OV-1 column with authentic samples. AMWF...

Two field experiments were conducted in Aly Mubark experimental Farm in sandy soil at El-Bustan Sandy soil irrigated by drip irrigation, during 2003 and 2004 seasons. The experiments aimed to study the effect of three irrigation treatments with three different kinds of fertilizers and its concentration on sage growth, yield, essential oil yield and components, macro-nutrients content in dry her...

Herb-partitioned moxibustion can effectively mitigate visceral pain, a major symptom in inflammatory bowel disease, but the analgesic mechanism is still unclear. Moreover, extracellular signal-regulated kinase, substance P, and neurokinin-1 are involved in formation of central hyperalgesia. Thus, we postulated that the analgesic effect of herb-partitioned moxibustion may be associated with thes...

Although a number of dereverberation methods have been reported, dereverberation is still a challenging problem especially when a single microphone is used. To overcome this problem, we proposed a harmonicity based dereverberation method (HERB). HERB can blindly estimate the inverse filter of a room transfer function based on the harmonicity of speech signals and dereverberate the signals. Howe...

Nadykto, Yu, Jakovleva, Herb and Xu have recently reported a DFT study on the structure and formation thermodynamics of sulfuric acid-base-water clusters, with ammonia and a handful of amines as bases [1]. This study partially overlaps with our previous work [2], and a significant part of the discussion in their manuscript concerns differences between their results and ours. This comment is int...

Oxidative stress is a major cause of neurodegenerative diseases, so the protection of neuronal cells from reactive oxygen species can be beneficial for the prevention and treatment of these diseases. Methanol extract of Orostachys japonicus A. Berger (Crassulaceae), a traditional oriental medical herb, was shown to have a protective effect on H2O2-induced apoptosis in GT1-1 mouse hypothalamic n...

Purpose Depression has been a serious issue as the annual worldwide suicide rate has been constantly increasing, according to the statistics published by WHO. In fact, WHO predicts that it will be the leading psychological disease by year 2020. Antidepressants in general, however, demonstrate serious side effects such as anxiety disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and sexual dysfunction in pa...