Agents and Remonstrators: Role Accumulation by Chinese People's Congress Deputies

The Parliamentary Library as a Bridge between Congress and Citizenship: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies Reference Service

The scope of parliamentary information is vast and is enhanced by communication technologies. Therefore, parliamentary libraries face the challenge of offering services to Members of Parliament (MPs) that are faster, more efficient, and more diverse. In Mexico the Parliamentary Library represents one of the bridges to democracy, a conduit that disseminates information generated by the Mexican C...

Xxxi Indian Social Science Congress a Note on Peoples' Struggles and Movements for Equitable Society

Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) has resolved to devote the 31st session of Indian Social Science Congress (XXXI ISSC) on ‘Peoples’ Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society’ with a view to discovering, developing and disseminating a new scientific knowledge relevant to creating a new democratic global society free from hunger, poverty, literacy, unemployment and violence of any sor...

Psoriasis therapy by Chinese medicine and modern agents

Psoriasis is a chronic, painful, disfiguring and non-contagious skin disease that has globally affected at least 200 million patients. In general, mild to moderate psoriasis patients will be treated by chemical drugs or Chinese medicine, while targeting systemic biological drugs have been successfully developed with good efficacy but high cost burden to patients with severe psoriasis. Since the...

The Screening of Anticholinergic Accumulation by Traditional Chinese Medicine

Many Western drugs can give rise to serious side effects due to their ability to bind to acetylcholine receptors in the brain. This aggravates when they are combined, which is known as anticholinergic accumulation (AA). Some bioactives in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are known to block acetylcholine receptors and thus potentially cause AA. The AA of TCM was screened by quantifying the dis...

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN