Cite this article: Hsieh HL, Yang CM (2016) Astrocyte as the Modulator in Brain Inflammation and Neurodegenerative Disorders. Ann Neurodegener Dis 1(2): 1008. *Corresponding author Hsi-Lung Hsieh, Department of Nursing, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, 261 Wen-Hua 1st Road, Gui-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Tel: (03) 2118999 EXT 5421; Fax: (03) 2118...

Within the scope of a biomonitoring study conducted in twelve urban agglomerations in eight European countries, the ozone-sensitive bioindicator plant Nicotiana tabacum cv. Bel-W3 was employed in order to assess the occurrence of phytotoxic ozone effects at urban, suburban, rural and traffic-exposed sites. The tobacco plants were exposed to ambient air for biweekly periods at up to 100 biomonit...

Though many of the presently used anticancer drugs are originated or derived from plants, an attempt to the isolation and clinical usage of single compound has caused severe adverse side effects like, myelosuppression, alopecia, nausea, gastrointestinal, reproductive and nephrotoxicity. In addition, most of the modern chemotherapeutic agents have been reported to induce secondary malignancies d...

Shin-Hwar Wu, Cheng-Mao Ho and Jang-Jih Lu Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua,Taiwan, ROC Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC Department of Laboratory Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC Department of Medical Research, China Medical University...

The Lie-Group Shooting Method for Quasi-Boundary Regularization of Backward Heat Conduction Problems Chih-Wen Chang1, Chein-Shan Liu2 and Jiang-Ren Chang1 Summary By using a quasi-boundary regularization we can formulate a two-point boundary value problem of the backward heat conduction equation. The ill-posed problem is analyzed by using the semi-discretization numerical schemes. Then, the res...

Sedimentary rocks in Tibetan Plateau basins archive the spatiotemporal patterns of deformation, erosion, and associated climate change that resulted from Cenozoic continental collision. Despite growing understanding of basin development in northeastern Tibet during initial India-Asia collision, as well as in the late Miocene–Holocene, surprisingly little is known about the intervening period: a...

Types and additional material of the paederine genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from the Qinling Shan, the Daba Shan, and adjacent mountain ranges in Central China (Gansu, Shaanxi, northern Sichuan, western Hubei) are revised. In all, 34 species are recognized, 29 of which are described and illustrated for the first time: L. aquilinum sp. n. (Shaanxi: Daba Shan); L. biapicale sp. n. (Sichuan:...

S U M M A R Y Southeast (SE)Asia is a tectonically complex region surrounded bymany active source regions, thus an ideal test bed for developments in seismic tomography. Much recent development in tomography has been based on 3-D sensitivity kernels based on the first-order Born approximation, but there are potential problems with this approach when applied to waveform data. In this study, we d...