BACKGROUND In the field of acupuncture research, the topic of acupoint specificity has received increasing attention, but no unified conclusion has been reached on whether or not acupoint specificity exists. Furthermore, the majority of previous acupuncture neuroimaging studies have been performed using healthy subjects. In this study, patients with migraine were used to investigate acupoint sp...

We aimed to assess the effects of acupuncture by analyzing the frequency content of skin blood-flow signals simultaneously recorded at the Hegu acupoint and two nearby nonacupoints following acupuncture stimulation (AS). Laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) signals were measured in male healthy volunteers in two groups of experiments: needling the Hegu acupoint (n = 13) and needling a nearby nonacupoi...

In this note, we define the concepts of admissible relation and admissible partition for an arbitrary BL-general fuzzy automaton.In particular, a connection between the admissible partition and the quotient BL-general fuzzy automaton is presented.It is shown that if we use the maximal admissible partition, then we obtain a quotient BL-general fuzzy automaton and this quotient is minimal. Finall...

The limits on the mass of the black hole in 23 BL Lac objects are obtained from their luminosities of the broad emission line Hβ on the assumption that broad emission lines are emitted from clouds ionized by the radiation of the accretion disk surrounding a black hole. The distribution of line luminosity LHβ of all these BL Lac objects suggests a bimodal nature, although this cannot be statisti...

Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a B-cell malignancy which occurs with varying clinical manifestations and frequencies. The most well-known presentation of BL is found in areas which are holoendemic or hyperendemic for malaria. This endemic BL occurs primarily in children and presents as tumors of the jaw [1,2]. Though a strong association exists between endemic BL and malaria, the nature of the relati...

Results Eighty children (56.2% females) with a mean age of 6.7 yrs (SD=4.035) where evaluated for 83 suspected BL HSR. The mean time elapsed between the reaction and the clinical assessment was of 3.1 yrs (SD=3.36). The most frequently implicated drugs were amoxicillin/ clavulanate (54.2%) and amoxicillin (32.5%). BL were prescribed for tonsillitis in 32.5%, otitis in 21.7% and upper airways in...

BACKGROUND Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) has been reported to be effective for the therapy for migraine. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of BTX-A on the immunoreactive levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and substance P (SP) in the jugular plasma and medulla oblongata of migraine in rats induced by nitroglycerin (NTG), and then to evaluate and compare the e...

BACKGROUND Moxibustion, acupuncture and other acupoint stimulations are commonly used for the correction of breech presentation. This systematic review aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of moxibustion and other acupoint stimulations to treat breech presentation. METHODS We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (CCTs) on moxibustion, acupuncture or ...

In this paper we study and equationally characterize the subvarieties of BL, the variety of BL-algebras, which are generated by families of single-component BL-chains, i.e. MV-chains, Product-chain or Gödel-chains. Moreover, it is proved that they form a segment of the lattice of subvarieties of BL which is bounded by the Boolean variety and the variety generated by all single-component chains,...