Hard tissues and organs, including the bones, teeth and cartilage, are the most extensively exploited and rapidly developed areas in regenerative medicine field. One prominent character of hard tissues and organs is that their extracellular matrices mineralize to withstand weight and pressure. Over the last two decades, a wide variety of 3D printing technologies have been adapted to hard tissue...

Traditional Medicine is very culture based. Every ethnic group has had its traditional medicine based on its indigenous knowledge base. Most traditional medicine systems utilize herbs (plants) as the main source of their therapeutic substances, although minerals and animal products are also utilized. traditional knowledge has often played a role in the development of modern science. Greater eff...

Woo Jong Kwon † , Sun Hee Kim 1,† , Yeo Ok Park, Mong Cho 2 , Chi Dug Kang 1 , Gwang Lee 3 , Won Gun An 4 , Woo Hong Joo 5 , and Dong Wan Kim* Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Changwon National University, Changwon 641-773, Korea; 1 Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan 602-739, Korea; 2 Department of Medicine, College of Medic...

Liver disease is one of the most risk factors threatening human health. It is of great significance to find drugs that can treat liver diseases, especially for acute and chronic hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and liver cancer. The search for drugs with good efficacy from traditional natural medicines has attracted more and more attention. Tibetan medicine, one of the China's trad...

1. Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2. Tropical Disease Center, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 3. Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 4. Dept. of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 5. Dept. of Statistics, ...

materials and methods twelve natural compounds jaceosidin, withaferin a, curcumin, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (egcg), artemisinin, gingerol, ursolic acid, ferulic acid, berberin, silymarin, resveratrol, and indol-3-carbinol were docked against e6 and e7 oncoproteins of high-risk hpv types 16 and 18 using a protein-ligand docking software called autodock4.2. results out of these 12 natural compo...

Terminology systems that represent the language as used in human communication have to deal with the problem of lexical ambiguity; i.e. the same natural language term is assigned to two or more codes. A scrutiny of the large international terminology standard SNOMED CT focused on concepts that are linked by the same term and exhibit problems especially when using the terminology in a Natural La...

Searching for new natural drugs that are capable of targeting Th1 and Th17 may lead to development of more effective treatments for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Most of the natural drugs can be derived from plants that are used in traditional medicine and folk medicine. The aim of this systematic review is to identify and introduce plants or plant derivatives that are effective on infl...

SNOMED is a large description logic based terminology for recording in electronic health records. Often, neither the labels nor the description logic definitions are easy for users to understand. Furthermore, information is increasingly being recorded not just using individual SNOMED concepts but also using complex expressions in the description logic (“postcoordinated” concepts). Such post-coo...