We investigated a possible association of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1 alpha (PGC-1α) Gly482Ser polymorphism with hypertension in Mongolians in Inner Mongolia. A total of 787 subjects were enrolled randomly, including 390 hypertension patients and 397 healthy controls. Triglycerides, cholesterol, and fasting plasma glucose were measured, and body mass inde...

42 a Graduate Student, c Associate Professor, d Professor, Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. b Professor, Department of Prosthodontics and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Health Science University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Corresponding author: Tae-Woo Kim. Department of Orthodontics, School of De...

Can Ngoc Dang, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Nghia Xuan Nguyen, Tien Duc Pham, Bazartseren Boldbaatar, Hiroshi Satoh, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Shigeru Morikawa, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Richard Yanagihara, and Kazunori Oishi Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (S. Arai, K. Araki, H. Satoh, S. Morikawa, K. Tanaka-Taya, K. Oishi); Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources,...

Early drought detection and impact assessment on the amount of pasture biomass are important in Mongolia, whose economy strongly depends on livestock production. The country’s large area and a lack of information on grass availability due to the sparseness of biomass-observing and/or meteorological stations make it difficult to optimize nomadic livestock output in the Mongolian dry climate. The...

Central to the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), humans and nature are organized into interacting subsystems of a cohesive whole at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Following an overview of the challenges in implementing the CHANS concept, we used widely available measures of social, economic, and ecological systems, including gross domestic product, population size, ne...

The Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Hyargas-Nuur formation in Western Mongolia yielded a rich fauna of birds which contributes significantly to our knowledge of the Neogene avian diversity in Asia. A study of new fossil remains, collected during the last 20 years, and a revision of several previously described taxa are presented in this paper. Cygnus pristinus is shown to be clearly separable from ...

To investigate Brucella infection in cattle, sheep, goat, reindeer and yak in Mongolia, serological reactions of Brucella-infected and -vaccinated domestic animals were compared by the agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) test with a polysaccharide (poly-B) of the B. Abortus strain S-19. The sensitivity and specificity were compared with conventional serological tests that are commonly used in Mongo...

J.F Bailey1, B. Healy1, J. Han2, L. Sherchand3, S.L. Pradhan3, T. Tsendsuren4, J.M. Foggin5, C. Gaillard6, D. Steane7, I. Zakharov8, D.G. Bradley1 1Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Animal Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] 3Livestock Production Division, ...

Under the Soviet central planning model that operated until 1990, the Mongolian population had little or no involvement in decision-making about health care. As part of overall health sector reform in Mongolia, hospital boards have been established, with significant community representation, to guide strategic and financial management and to assist in developing services according to community ...

Studying the influencing factors of carbon dioxide emissions is not only practically but also theoretically crucial for establishing regional carbon-reduction policies, developing low-carbon economy and solving the climate problems. Therefore, we used a geographical detector model which is consists of four parts, i.e., risk detector, factor detector, ecological detector and interaction detector...