Topica] tretinoin (Retin-A• , Ortho Pharmaceuticals) was applied for 6-9 months to photoaged faces of 27 Chinese, mostly women, living in North China where climatic conditions are very unfavorable. Summers are hot and sunny, predisposing to photodamage. The weather is also frequently dry and windy predisposing to dryness. The results were similar to those previously described on Orientals in Th...

BACKGROUND The cytochrome P450 CYP2D6 enzyme debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase metabolizes many different classes of commonly used drugs, such as tricyclic antidepressants and neuroleptics. Genetic polymorphism of the CYP2D6 gene is responsible for pronounced interindividual and interracial differences in the metabolism of these drugs. The CYP2D6*10 allele and its variants are the most frequent allele...

We report a case of patient with documented SLE who displayed dysuria, gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and renal insufficiency associated with the unusual occurrence of bilateral hydroureteronephrosis due to urterovesical junction stricture (obstructive uropathy). Pathologic investigations disclosed chronic interstitial cystitis (IC) with evidence of focal immune complex deposition in the blood ...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on how michael ondaatje has tried to rewrite western history in his booker prize-winning novel the english patient (1992). in the light of colonial and postcolonial theories and hayden white’s theory of narrativity of history, which regards historical accounts as metaphorical statements, the researchers try to show how ondaatje challenges the authenticity ...

China possesses large areas of plantation forests which take up great quantities of carbon. However, studies on soil respiration in these plantation forests are rather scarce and their soil carbon flux remains an uncertainty. In this study, we used an automatic chamber system to measure soil surface flux of a 50-year-old mature plantation of Platycladus orientalis at Jiufeng Mountain, Beijing, ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has now emerged as a global public health crisis, requiring the discovery of new and novel antimicrobial compounds, that may be precursors future therapeutic antibiotics. Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) comes with rich pedigree holistic empirical usage in Asia for last 5000 years. Extracts Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge, Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels, Dianthus su...