Microcystis and Anabaena are the main cyanobacteria that cause cyanobacterial blooms in Taihu Lake, China. The mechanism of population competition between M. aeruginosa and A. flos-aquae was studied by co-cultivation in the laboratory. The growth of M. aeruginosa was inhibited, while the growth of A. flos-aquae was promoted. The degree of inhibition or promotion was related to the ratio of the ...

⋅Received:9 April 2013 ⋅Revised:27 May 2013 ⋅Accepted:27 May 2013 ⋅Correspondence to:Hyunsu Bae College of Korean Medicine, KyungHee University, #1 Hoeki-dong Dongdaemoon-gu, Seoul, 130-701, Republic of Korea Tel:+82-2-961-9316, Fax:+82-2-967-2080, Email:hbae@ khu.ac.kr Objectives: In the present study, we evaluate the anti-inflammatory effect of Lonicerae Flos on cigarette-induced lung inflamm...

Summer blooms of filamentous, diazotrophic cyanobacteria are typical of the Baltic Sea Proper, and are dominated by Aphanizomenon sp. and the toxic Nodularia spumigena. Although occurring every summer, the blooms vary greatly in timing and spatial distribution, making monitoring difficult and imprecise. This thesis studies how the spatial variability of Baltic cyanobacterial blooms influences e...

—This paper proposes a novel wideband signal model and a novel method in wideband bistatic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output radar system. It combines the fractional lower order statistics and fractional correlation (FLOS-FC), for suppressing the impulse noise and estimating parameters of the target. Firstly, an extended signal array model is proposed under the alpha-stable distribution noise mod...

The diversity within the genus Aphanizomenon (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) is still controversial and more studies are needed to clarify its heterogeneity. Aphanizomenon strains isolated from the eutrophic shallow Vela Lake (Centralwestern Portugal) during bloom formation in summer months from 2001 to 2007 were characterized combining phenotypic and molecular approaches. The molecular affiliation...

Candida albicans is a dermal fungus of the human body that known to cause oral candidiasis, vaginal and bloodstream infections in immunocompromised people or certain environmental conditions. As cases strains resistant antifungal agents C. have been reported, studies using plant materials as safe are being actively conducted. In this study, total 17 edible extracts showed activity against resul...

Lonicerae japonicae flos is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years with confirmed curative effects. Except for medicine, it is also used in healthy food, cosmetics, and soft beverages for its specific activities. Therefore, the chemical constituents, mainly including organic acids, flavonoids, iridoids, triterpenoids, and volatile oils, have been well studied by ma...

The oral bioavailabilities of phenolic acids in Flos Lonicerae Japonicae beverage were low. The observation from an in vitro Caco-2 cell model showed that the absorptions of phenolic acids were mainly permeated via paracellular diffusion, and influenced by P-glycoprotein (P-gp), multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (MRP2) and breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP). Besides, the Papp (AP→B...

In order to confirm the constitution of hepatoprotective oleanene glucuronide (OG), HPLC profile analyses of the total OG fractions of both Puerariae Thomsonii Flos (the flowers of Pueraria thomsonii) and Puerariae Lobatae Flos (the flowers of P. lobata) were performed. No remarkable difference in the HPLC profiles with respect to OGs in the flowers was shown, in contrast to those of the roots....