Electroacupuncture (EA) therapy has been widely accepted as a useful therapeutic technique with low or no risk in the clinical prevention of cardiac hypertrophy. However, the signaling transduction mechanism underlying this effect remains unclear. The current study investigates the effects of EA on the signaling pathways of myocardial hypertrophy (MH) in rats. Up to 40 3-month-old Sprague-Dawle...

This is the second of three lectures on introduction to vertex operator algebras. In this lecture, we shall continue Professor Dong’s lecture to present more fundamental properties of vertex operator algebras. From the mathematical point of view, a vertex operator algebra formally resembles a Lie algebra because the Jacobi identity is used as one of the main axioms. For the Lie algebra aspect o...

Bin Chen,1 Wen-Pin Hsieh,2,3 David G. Cahill,3 Dallas R. Trinkle,3 and Jie Li4,* 1Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA 3Materials Research Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois...

Jinshui He1, Xushuang Li2, Daoshu Luo3, Chaobao Zhang4, Shuanggang Hu4, and Xiangqi Li4* Department of Pediatrics, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou 363000, China College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350004, China Institute of Biochemistry and C...

Thorsten Emmerich,1 Armin Bunde,1 Shlomo Havlin,2 Guanliang Li,3 and Daqing Li4 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany 2Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel 3Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 4School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Bei...

Yoshitaka Umeno,1,2,* Akihiro Kushima,2 Takayuki Kitamura,2 Peter Gumbsch,1,3 and Ju Li4 1IZBS, University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan 3Fraunhofer IWM, Wöhlerstrasse 11, 79108 Freiburg, Germany 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 432...

15 The efficacy of acupuncture in smoking cessation, and its effect on the urge to smoke are unclear. We evaluated the effect of a standardized protocol of transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulations (TEAS) on alleviating the urge to smoke. Ninety-eight smokers were recruited in two double-blind studies. Participants abstained from smoking for 26 h, and were randomized to receive TEAS alterna...

Assessing Google Correlate Queries for Influenza H1N1 Surveillance in Asian Developing Countries Xichuan Zhou1∗, Qin Li2, Han Zhao2, Shengli Li 1, Lei Yu 1, Fang Tang 1, Shengdong Hu 1, Guojun Li4 , Yujie Feng3 1 College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China 2 Chongqing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, China 3 The Third Military Medical Unive...