Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons. There is no effective treatment or drug against ALS, and the precise mechanisms leading to the selective loss of motor neurons are still unknown. We investigated the effect of a Chinese prescription, Wen-Pi-Tang, on the ALS model mouse SOD1(G93A). Although the or...

Dianous zhujianqingi Tang & Li, 2011 syn. n. is synonymised with Dianous cyaneovirens (Cameron, 1930). Additional records of Dianous yao Rougemont, 1981, Dianous haraldi Puthz, 2000 and Dianous huanghaoi Tang & Li, 2011 are provided.

Gugijihwang-Tang (the herbal formula PM012), a decoction consisting of several herbs including Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, has been widely used as herbal treatment for dementia. In order to investigate the neuroprotective action of this prescription, we examined the effect of Gugijihwang-Tang on learning and memory using the Morris water maze and [F-18]FDG micro PET neuroimaging technique. Afte...

Background: Bojungikki-tang (Bu-Zhong-Yi-Qi-Tang in Chinese or Hochu-ekki-to in Japanese) is a widely used herbal prescription in traditional medicine in China, Japan, and Korea. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Bojungikki-tang for cancer-related fatigue. Methods: A total of 40 patients with cancer-related fatigue were randomized into an experimental or a waiting li...

We give a combinatorial interpretation of a certain positivity conjecture of Chern-SchwartzMacPherson classes, as stated by P. Aluffi and the author in a previous paper. It translates into a positivity property for a sum of p × p determinants consisting of binomial coefficients, generalizing the classical Theorem of Lindström-Gessel-Viennot et al. which computes these determinants in terms of n...

We present two results characterizing minimizers of the Chan-Esedoḡlu LTV functional F (u) ≡ ∫ |∇u|dx + λ ∫ |u − f |dx; u, f : R → R. If we restrict to u = χΣ and f = χΩ, Σ,Ω ∈ R, the LTV functional reduces to E(Σ) = Per(Σ) + λ|Σ M Ω|. We show that there is a minimizer Σ such that its boundary ∂Σ lies between the union of all balls of radius nλ contained in Ω and the corresponding union of n λ ...

The pepsinogens of human gastric mucosa have been the subject of several studies using electrophoretic and chromatographic techniques (Uriel, 1960; Seijffers, Segal, and Miller, 1963; Tang and Tang, 1963; Kushner, Rapp, and Burtin, 1964; Rapp, Aronson, Burtin, and Grabar, 1964; Hanley, Boyer, and Naughton, 1966; Taylor, 1968; Samloff, 1969); it has been shown that gel electrophoresis is superio...