Herbal Medicine- A Friend or a Foe of Cardiovascular Disease
CONCLUSION: Although there have been encouraging outcomes with the use of these herbal medications, many of these products are poorly monitored and are yet to be studied in detail regarding their adverse effects. Moreover, these medicinal products are known to interact with various drugs. To compete with the expanding pharmaceutical industry, more medicinally helpful herbal items must be used and scientifically validated.PMID:37818588 | DOI:10.2174/0118715257251638230921045029 (Source: Cardiovascular and Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry)
Source: Cardiovascular and Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry - October 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Harmanjit Kaur Samneet Singh Sai Gautham Kanagala Vasu Gupta Meet A Patel Rohit Jain Source Type: research
Looking to gamble, newest U.S. health agency places first research bets
A year ago, when applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn took the helm of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), questions swirled around the brand-new agency, which was created by President Joe Biden to fund daring, cutting-edge biomedical research. Would the new organization be sufficiently different from the sluggish, risk-averse National Institutes of Health (NIH)? How would Wegrzyn, who had never run an agency, navigate pressures from Congress to shape the effort? And how quickly could she recruit the type of innovative scientific staff needed to identify out-of-the-box projects on which to spend a billion...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - October 10, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Evaluating the role of Ginkgo biloba extract in the secondary prevention of acute ischemic stroke with cerebral microbleeds by quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM)
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Source: International Journal of Neuroscience - October 9, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Wenting LanXin WuYuefei WuHui Zhanga Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Chinab Department of Radiology, Medical School of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Chinac Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hos Source Type: research
Composites made of Ginkgo biloba fibers and polylactic acid exhibit non-isothermal crystallization kinetics
In this study, alkali-treated Ginkgo biloba fibers (GFs) were melt blended with polylactic acid (PLA) to obtain GF/PLA blends. The non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of the GF/PLA composites were subsequently investigated using the Avrami, Jeziorny, Ozawa, and Liu-Mo methods, and the crystallization activation energies of the systems were calculated by Kissinger and Friedman models. The results showed that the GFs significantly promoted PLA crystallization, accelerated the crystallization rate, and shortened the crystallization time. The Avrami method showed some deviation from the linear relationship due to the effec...
Source: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules - October 4, 2023 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Hongwei Yang Jianghua Du Source Type: research
Composites made of Ginkgo biloba fibers and polylactic acid exhibit non-isothermal crystallization kinetics
In this study, alkali-treated Ginkgo biloba fibers (GFs) were melt blended with polylactic acid (PLA) to obtain GF/PLA blends. The non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of the GF/PLA composites were subsequently investigated using the Avrami, Jeziorny, Ozawa, and Liu-Mo methods, and the crystallization activation energies of the systems were calculated by Kissinger and Friedman models. The results showed that the GFs significantly promoted PLA crystallization, accelerated the crystallization rate, and shortened the crystallization time. The Avrami method showed some deviation from the linear relationship due to the effec...
Source: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules - October 4, 2023 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Hongwei Yang Jianghua Du Source Type: research
< em > Hufsiella ginkgonis < /em > gen. nov., sp. nov. and < em > Hufsiella arboris < /em > sp. nov., isolated from tree barks
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023 Sep;73(9). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006050.ABSTRACTTwo Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, bacteria that formed pale-pinkish colonies, designated HMF7056T and HMF7647T were isolated from Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) and Korean cornel dogwood (Cornus offcinalis), respectively. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of 16S rRNA genes and 92 core genes indicated that two strains represent novel species within the family Sphingobacteriaceae. HMF7056T and HMF7647T showed high 16S rRNA sequence similarities to Daejeonella lutea N7d-4T (93.9 % and 95.7 %, respectively). The genomes of HMF7056T and...
Source: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology - September 27, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Heeyoung Kang Seokhyeon Bae Haneul Kim Kiseong Joh Source Type: research
