--Tree crew supervisors in 48 California cities were asked what problems they encounter with the five most common trees along their streets. The top five trees of the 20 most often named were sweetgum, Modesto ash, southern magnolia, planetree, and Chinese or lacebark elm. Major problems reported included root damage to sidewalks and curbs, growth of suckers from the root crown, exceptionally f...

Traditional Chinese medicine has been used to treat disease in China for more than five thousand years. Over the last few decades it has been used increasingly in other countries as well. As its use has spread, interest in the adverse effects of traditional Chinese medicine, including epilepsy and epileptic seizures, has grown. To date, four types of traditional Chinese medicine have been found...

Sericulture is one of the great inventions of the ancient Chinese. Besides the mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori), Chinese farmers developed rearing of the Chinese oak silkworm (Antheraea pernyi) about 400 years ago. In this paper, the historic records of the origins and dispersal of the domesticated Chinese oak silkworm in China are summarized. The first document with clearly recorded oak silkwor...

The leaves of the white mulberry tree (Morus alba L.) are used worldwide in traditional medicine as anti-diabetics. Various constituents of mulberry leaves, such as iminosugars (i.e. 1-deoxynojirimicin), flavonoids and related compounds, polysaccharides, glycopeptides and ecdysteroids, have been reported to exert anti-diabetic activity, but knowledge about their contribution to the overall acti...

Ancient trees are the witnesses of long-standing Chinese culture, as well carriers important history and which tell us vicissitudes human world during centuries. The ancient forest, moreover, is a treasure left to by history, living fossil, relic, priceless treasure. Taking Mulberry Garden in imperial forest an example, article elaborates importance necessity developing utilizing from three asp...

We present our experiment about adding anthocyanins to the daily food of mice. Three kinds of anthocyanins (cyanidin-3-glucoside, cyanidin-3-rutinoside and pelargonidin-3-glucoside) purified from Chinese mulberry (Morus australis Poir) were evaluated for suppressing body weight gain of the male C57BL/6 mice fed with high-fat diet (HFD). The results from a 12-week experiment show that consumptio...

conclusions according to the liver microrna data of chinese tree shrew, characteristics of the mir-122 and let-7 families further highlight the suitability of tree shrew as the animal model in hcv research. objectives this study aimed to construct a liver microrna (mirna) data of the tree shrew. materials and methods three second filial generation tree shrews were used in this study. total rna ...