ABSTRACT The Asian traditional medicinal plant Acorus calamus and its component α-asarone exhibited various biological activities, such as antiinflammation antioxidant effects. In the present study, we investigated in vitro effects of A. extract on oxidative stress- endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress–induced cell death hippocampal HT22 cells. both significantly suppressed induced by stress induc...

1Department of Otolaryngology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan 2Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA 3Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Mackay Medical College, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 4Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Univers...

HISHAM HN, HALE M & NORASIKIN AL. 2014. Equilibrium moisture content and moisture exclusion efficiency of acetylated rattan (Calamus manan). The reduced equilibrium moisture content (EMCR) and moisture exclusion efficiency (MEE) of acetylated rattan was studied in relation with age and time of acetylation. Rattans aged 10 and 13 years grown under rubber trees were reacted with acetic anhydride ...

The present studies were conducted on effect of plant extracts on Trametes versicolor (White rot) fungal colonization and inhibition of treated and untreated wood of Pinus roxburghii Sargent. The data on colonization and fungal inhibition were noticed significant variation. Among the concentrations, maximum value for fungal colonization treated wood samples with extract was noticed in the (100%...

In this article, Professor Howard Chang addresses the role of trade restric­ tions in supporting policies to protect the global environment and proposes a more liberal treatment of these environmental trade measures than that adopted by dispute-settlement panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The GATT Secretariat has recommended that countries like the United States rely ...

In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that long-term sulphate (SO(4) (2-)) deposition has made peatlands a larger source of methyl mercury (MeHg) to remote boreal lakes. This was done on experimental plots at a boreal, low sedge mire where the effect of long-term addition of SO(4) (2-) on peat pore water MeHg concentrations was observed weekly throughout the snow-free portion of 1999. The...