Curcuma xanthorrhiza (CX) has been used for centuries in traditional system of medicine to treat several diseases such as hepatitis, liver complaints, and diabetes. It has been consumed as food supplement and "jamu" as a remedy for hepatitis. Hence, CX was further explored for its potential as a functional food for liver related diseases. As such, initiative was taken to evaluate the antioxidan...

A seven French extra back-up catheter was placed in the ostium of the left coronary artery. Three guidewires were advanced: one in the LAD artery and the other two in the CX artery and branches. While crossing the CX occlusion with the wire, the vessel opened spontaneously (Figure 4) and an image suggestive of thrombotic material was seen in the CX and the second obtuse marginal branch (Figure ...

There are a number of theorems to the effect that spaces of the form Q. n 11 n X split stably into wedges of simpler spaces when X is connected (by which we mean pathwise connected). The proofs generally proceed by exploitation of combinatorially manageable approximations for Q. n *L n X. The earliest theorem of this kind is due to Milnor(18), who exploited the semi-simplicial version of the Ja...

Japanese encephalitis is a disease of major importance in Asia, which from 1995 has extended its range into the north of Australia. Culex annulirostris Skuse of the Culex sitiens subgroup of Culex was incriminated as the most likely mosquito vector. Because misidentifications previously have occurred within this subgroup, our paper defines electrophoretic methods to identify Culex specimens fro...

Glioblastoma (GBM) causes poor survival in patients even with aggressive treatment. Temozolomide (TMZ) is the standard chemotherapeutic choice for GBM treatment but resistance always ensues. Protein kinase CK2 (CK2) contributes to tumour development and proliferation in cancer, and it is overexpressed in human GBM. Accordingly, targeting CK2 in GBM may benefit patients. Our goal has been to eva...

Mosquitoes within the Culex pipiens complex are widely distributed and important in the transmission of many human diseases. Insecticides, pyrethroids in particular, remain a mainstay for control of these important vectors. In this paper we review what is known about the levels, mechanisms and fitness costs of pyrethroid resistance in Cx. pipiens. Pyrethroid resistance in Cx. pipiens is a globa...

Nucleotide sequence information on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and ITS 2 regions of the nuclear ribosomal DNA multigene family was used to develop a polymerase chain reaction assay that identifies Culex nigripalpus Theobald. The assay uses species-specific forward and reverse primers for Cx. nigripalpus and can be used along with previously described primers to distinguish among 4 commo...

We measured HBsAg/IgG complexes (CX) quantitatively by ELISA from HBsAg positive serum of 35 liver disease patients, 15 patients with glomerular diseases (8 membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) 7 membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), and 50 healthy carriers of HBsAg. HbsAg/IgG CX was detected in 26 out of 35 liver disease patients (74.3%), 5 out of 50 healthy carriers (10%), and one o...

There are several methods for solving fuzzy linear programming (FLP)problems. When the constraints and/or the objective function are fuzzy, the methodsproposed by Zimmermann, Verdegay, Chanas and Werners are used more often thanthe others. In the Zimmerman method (ZM) the main objective function cx is addedto the constraints as a fuzzy goal and the corresponding linear programming (LP)problem w...