Ethnopharmacological Relevance. Dendrobii Officinalis Caulis, the stems of Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo, as a tonic herb in Chinese materia medica and health food in folk, has been utilized for the treatment of yin-deficiency diseases for decades. Methods. Information for analysis of Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo was obtained from libraries and Internet scientific databases such ...

Crow and Kimura (1965) constructed a model to quantify the arguments originally due to Fisher (1930) and Muller (1932) that recombination accelerates evolution because it enables mutations originally occurring in distinct individuals to be combined in a single descendent. The model contained the assumption that even though the population be large, the mutation rate should be so small that the d...

Cartilage proteoglycans are complex macromolecules in which many glycosaminoglycan chains are attached to a protein core. Chondrocytes isolated from the Swarm rat chondrosarcoma have been shown to produce cartilage-type proteoglycans in culture. The proteoglycans are secreted from the cells as monomers, but form aggregates in the culture medium by binding to hyaluronate and a specific link prot...

The production of thiaminase by a bacterium of the intestinal tract as an etiologic factor of beriberi has received considerable study by Japanese work ers. Chang (1) observed that when a thiamine solution was placed in the sigmoidal colon of a patient having habitual constipation combined with beri beri, the vitamin soon disappeared. The first discovery of a thiaminase producing micro-organism...

Kimura’s disease (KD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder primarily seen in male Asians during the second and third decades of life. Clinically, it presents as solitary or multiple subcutaneous nodules, predominantly in the head and neck region, typically in the pre auricular region, forehead, and scalp. The etiology of Kimura disease is still unknown. This disorder should be suspected when the ...

A E Hegab, T Sakamoto, Y Uchida, A Nomura, Y Ishii, Y Morishima, M Mochizuki, T Kimura, W Saitoh, H H Massoud, H M Massoud, K M Hassanein, K Sekizawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....