Dendrobium nobile is one of the fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine. Sesquiterpene alkaloids are the main active components in this plant. Due to weak ultraviolet absorption and low content in D. nobile, these sesquiterpene alkaloids have not been extensively studied using chromatographic methods. Herein, tandem mass spectrometry combined with liquid chromatography separation prov...

S tem cell therapies are not new. Bone marrow stem cell transplants have been performed for decades with much of the general public unaware that this is, in fact, a stem cell therapy. While the use of adult-derived stem cells and storage of cord blood has caused little debate, it is only since 1998 1 when researchers first learnt how to remove stem cells from human embryos that controversy has ...

of it, and he wages an unnecessary warfare against all the unessential details of special religion. We agree with Mr. Martin that all incidental features of religion should be treated as incidentals and the essentials should be made paramount ; we also agree with him that all error should be removed ; but for that reason we need not drop or decry or ridicule or abhor any of those special featur...

soil in which they were found but are the remains of animals living in the sea on whose bed the soil (sediment) was deposited. The latter paper is a summary of a projected further work which unfortunately never appeared. It is the Prodromus that contained the first statement of the Law of Superposition; and much more. 'If, in a certain stratum, we find great abundance of rushes, grass, pine con...

Yearning for children and the heartbreak of barrenness have been a part of life since the beginning of mankind, chronicled throughout history by religious accounts, myths, legends, art, and literature. Whether driven by biological drive, social necessity, or psychological longing, the pursuit of a child or children has compelled men and women to seek a variety of remedies, sometimes even extrem...

R. D. M. Hadden, E. Nobile-Orazio, C. Sommer, A. Hahn, I. Illa, E. Morra, J. Pollard, R. A. C. Hughes, P. Bouche, D. Cornblath, E. Evers, C. L. Koski, J. M. Léger, P. Van den Bergh, P. van Doorn and I. N. van Schaik Department of Neurology, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Department of Neurological Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department ofNeurology,University ofWürzburg,Wür...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The geographical pattern of mortality in The Netherlands is dominated by an area of relatively high mortality in the southern part of the country. The aim was to analyse the background of this geographical mortality pattern in the early 1980s, and its evolution over time since the early 1950s. DESIGN Mortality data by district (n = 39), cause of death (13 large causes, "sympto...

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version. Lines lead from the very first Jewish Christianity to the seventh century, indeed to Islam.. .. The analogies between the Qur'anic picture of Jesus and a Christology with a Jewish-Christian stamp are perplexing. These parallels are irrefutable and call for more intensive historical and systematic re...

Roughly one-quarter of the world’s most common neglected tropical diseases and almost all of the cases of Chagas disease occur in the Catholic majority countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This finding highlights new opportunities to lift the poorest Catholics in developing countries out of poverty. The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world’s po...