Preeclampsia is a pregnancy disorder characterized by hypertension and proteinuria. This disorder involves oxidative stress and changes in endothelial homeostasis. This study was aimed to seek whether an ethanolic extract of Punica granatum fruit inhibits 8-iso-PGFα formation and modulates nitric oxide (NO) in endothelial cells induced by plasma from pre-eclamptic patients. Endothelial cells we...

This paper studies how well borrowers choose their credit contracts and to what extent borrowers’ sophistication can be informative about their unobserved creditworthiness. To this end, I exploit a new source of quasi-experimental variation in interest rates, along with bunching methods. In the setting, the loan interest rate schedule features discrete jumps at specific loan amount thresholds, ...

Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi 351-0198, Japan Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics De...

Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu To cite this article: Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu (2015): Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2015.1071380 To link to this a...

Background and Aim: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is recognized as a metabolic liver disease in the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the preventive effects of Punica granatum extract on fatty liver disease in the rats receiving high fat diet. Material and Methods: In this study rats were divided into 6 groups: healthy control, feeding with high fat diet, feeding ...

Alcoholic extracts of the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, rind of Citrus decumana, Desmodium triflorum, seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana, rhizomes of Kaempfaria galanga, Lippia nodiflora, tender leaves of Morinda citrifolia, rhizomes of Pollia serzogonian, Tephrosia purpuria and rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbeth showed good in vitro anthelmintic a...

There is currently a shifting focus towards finding natural compounds that may prevent or treat cancer, due to the problems that exist with current chemotherapeutic regimens. The fruit of the Punica granatum (pomegranate) contains hundreds of phytochemicals and pomegranate extracts have recently been shown to exhibit antioxidant properties, thought to be due to the action of ellagic acid, the m...

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have a wide range of biological activity. Among them conjugated fatty acids are of great interest. Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA), which exert a multidirectional health-benefiting influence, and conjugated linolenic acids (CLnA, super CLA) are examples of this group of fatty acids. CLnA are a group of positional and geometric isomers of octadecatrienoic acid ...