Yuriko Furuya, Kaoru Mori, Tadashi Ninomiya, Yoshiya Tomimori, Sakae Tanaka, Naoyuki Takahashi, Nobuyuki Udagawa , Kohji Uchida, and Hisataka Yasuda** From the Nagahama Institute for Biochemical Science, Nagahama Branch, Oriental Yeast Co., Limited, 50 Kano-cho Nagahama, Shiga 526-0804, the **Bioindustry Division, Oriental Yeast Co., Limited, 3-610 Azusawa, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-8505, the Inst...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is one of the most common diseases among aging men. Although previous studies have shown that type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDE5-Is) are very effective for the treatment of ED, many researchers are currently attempting to identify therapeutic agents from natural sources with comparable or better effects than PDE5-Is. Herbal medicine is thought to be advantageous...

This study projects that the per capita supply of alternative medicine clinicians (chiropractors, naturopaths, and practitioners of oriental medicine) will grow by 88 percent between 1994 and 2010, while physician supply will grow by 16 percent. This increase is associated with growth in the number and size of alternative medicine colleges and in the opportunities these graduates have for licen...

1 Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China 2 School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon 00852, Hong Kong 3 Centre for Complementary Medicine Research (CompleMED), University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 4Center for Evidence Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Med...

1 Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 88 Yuquan Road, Tianjin 300193, China 2 China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 16 Nanxiao Street, Beijing 100700, China 3 School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, 7 Baptist University Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 4Chinese Cochrane/Evidence-Based Medicine Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37 Guoxue Lane, C...

Despite the development of genomic research on common cardiovascular diseases, genetic variants and/or loci shown to be disease associated have been seldom applied to risk prediction in a clinical setting, although they could provide us with novel mechanistic insights into the pathophysiology and potential therapeutic targets. Here, we discuss the significance and limitations of the up-todate g...

Information processing for intelligent diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important part of the modernization of Chinese medicine, attracts world wide attention from the science circle. This article presents a systematic introduction to the development of information technology, especially the processing of pulse and tongue images and systems of computer-aided Chinese medical d...