Fuzheng Qingjie (FZQJ) granules, a compound Chinese medicine, have been used as an adjuvant therapy for alimentary tract cancers. However, the underlying anticancer mechanisms are still not well understood. In the present study, HepG2 cells were treated with FZQJ-containing serum. Cell proliferation was evaluated using MTT assay. Apoptosis was analyzed using a flow cytometer. Cell ultrastructur...

Qilian Huaji Decoction (QLHJD) is a mixture of 13 herbs. The aim this study to observe the efficacy QLHJD against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). H22 transplanted mouse models were established explore effect on HCC in vivo. QLHJD-containing serum (QCS) was prepared using traditional Chinese medicine pharmacology methods. After QCS treatment, cell proliferation, cycle and apoptosis HepG2 cells a...

In this paper we identify a number of objectionable features of the German retirement benefit formula. We show that groups of insureds with higher than average life expectancy, in particular high-income groups, are subsidized by the rest of the membership because the formula neglects differences in group-specific life expectancy. Furthermore, the current formula leads to undesirable long-run ef...

This paper studies the impact of municipal non-residential property taxation on firms’ performance using a panel data of italian manufacturing firms in 2001-2010. In the spirit of Duranton et al. (2011), we use a pairwise spatial difference instrumental variable estimator which allows to tackle the endogeneity of local taxation. As well as providing robust inference to arbitrary cross-sectional...