Objective: Zataria multiflora (Zm) has been proposed for memory enhancing in Persian traditional medicine; but to now, no study has been carried out in this field yet. The aim of this research was to study the plant effect on spatial memory in scopo...

BACKGROUND Hawthorn fruit (HF) is a well-known traditional medicine in China with the effects of improving digestion and regulating qi-flowing for removing blood stasis. Modern pharmacological experiments showed that HF extract has various pharmaceutical properties and flavonoids are considered as the main bioactive compounds. In this paper, Diaion HP-20 adsorption chromatography was used to en...

The aetiology of the diffuse systemic collagen diseases, embracing rheumatoid arthritis, sclero-derma, dermato-myositis, polyarteritis nodosa, and disseminated lupus erythematosus still remains obscure. The need persists for a wider concept of their clinical picture, with less emphasis on one particular system. Ellman (1947), in respect of rheumatoid arthritis, suggested " rheu-matoid disease" ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease whose distinctive feature is the development of symmetrical polyarthritis. It has a prevalence of 1% in the general population, predominating in females and peaking between the ages of 30 and 50 years; it is found worldwide, although some ethnic groups show an increased propensity for the disease. The burden of illness in thes...

Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews in media outlets owned by News Corp, such as the Wall Street Journal, and Time Warner, such as Time. We find higher ratings for 20th Century Fox movies in News Corp. outlets compared to mo...

upper percentiles in an exposure distribution (Chatterjee et al. 2008). The 90th percentile NHANES dietary values used by the FDA (2010) therefore cannot be characterized as biased toward safety. The National Toxicology Program (2005) and the California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (2005) have determined that there is sufficient evidence to co...

BACKGROUND Long head biceps (LHB) degeneration in combination with rotator cuff tears can be a source of chronic shoulder pain. LHB tenotomy is an approved surgical procedure for pain reduction and improvement of joint function, however, the pathophysiology of LHB degeneration is not fully understood. In the literature, neoangiogenesis in tendon tissue has previously been shown to be associated...

BACKGROUND Over the past 10 years, radiofrequency (RF) technology has been utilized for nonablative treatments for the treatment of rhytides and skin laxity. This manuscript reviews the scientific background of collagen synthesis in vivo and in response to RF energy as well as a clinical study of 17 patients receiving a series of facial treatments with a 4-MHz monopolar RF (Pellevé, Ellman Inte...