Obituary of insight into the mechanisms of myelination and of In Memoriam: neuronal–glial interactions. Wood, Dick established that the axon was mitogenic for Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes (Wood and Bunge, 1975, 1986), providing the first example of the biological The neuroscience community has lost a pioneer, a men-activity we now recognize as the neuregulin family of tor, and a generous ...

Flavonoids from Trollius chinensis Bunge.(Flos Trollii) were extracted by different method were investigated in the present study. Simultaneous determination of two flavonoids(orientin and vitexin) was accomplished by a useful, rapid and simple HPLC/DAD-ESI-MS method. A central composite design (CCD) combined with response surface methodology(RSM) was used to study the effects of extraction tim...

Erythranthe (Mimulus) filicifolia was recently recognized and formally described as a new species of sect. Simiola from Butte and Plumas counties in north-central California (Sexton et al. 2013; transferred to Erythranthe by Nesom 2013b). Sexton et al. compared the new species to E. laciniata, as both species have a Sierra Nevadan geographic range, generally similar habitats, and dissected leav...

Eremostachys pulvinaris (family: Labiatae), one of the 60 species of the genus Eremostachys, occurs mainly in central Asian countries, e.g. Iran, Armenia, Ashgabad and the USSR. The rhizomes of this plant were collected from Tabriz in Azarbaijan province during September-October 2003. There is no report on any previous phytochemical investigation on E. pulvinaris available todate, phytochemical...

A reference extractive, containing multiple active known compounds, has been considered to be an alternative to individual reference standards. However, in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia (ChP) the great majority of reference extractives have been primarily used for qualitative identification by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and few studies on the applicability of reference extractives for quantita...