Propolis is produced by honeybees and has many biological properties, including immunomodulatory, antiinflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-cancer actions. Five ethanol extracts of Brazilian propolis were tested for inhibition of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced inflammation in mice. The ethanol extract of Brazilian propolis AF-08 markedly inhibited T...

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BACKGROUND A number of studies have suggested that diurnal variation in airways responsiveness underlies the circadian rhythm of ventilatory function in asthma. Measurements of airways responsiveness are therefore often performed at standardised times in order to avoid this possible effect, but this is not practical for epidemiological studies. Refractoriness to methacholine has also been repor...

This paper evaluates a new automatic MT evaluation metric, Normalized Compression Distance (NCD), which is a general tool for measuring similarities between binary strings. We provide system-level correlations and sentence-level consistencies to human judgements and comparison to other automatic measures with the WMT’08 dataset. The results show that the general NCD metric is at the same level ...