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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Rheum, a highly diversified genus with about 60 species, is mainly confined to the mountainous and desert regions of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and adjacent areas. This genus represents a good example of the extensive diversification of the temperate genera in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, in which the forces to drive diversification remain unknown. To date, the infrageneric...

ankylosing spondylitis. Arthritis Rheum 2006;54:2845–51. 17. Rudwaleit M, Schwarzlose S, Hilgert ES, Listing J, Braun J, Sieper J. MRI in predicting a major clinical response to anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment in ankylosing spondylitis. Ann Rheum Dis 2008;67:1276–81. 18. Bennett AN, Rehman A, Hensor EMA, Marzo-Ortega H, Emery P, Mc Gonagle D. Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of spinal...

3 Tan E M, Rodnan G P, Garcia I, Moroi Y, FritzlerM J, Peebles C. Diversity of antinuclear antibodies in progressive systemic sclerosis. Arthritis Rheum 1980; 23: 617-25. 4 Giordano M. Classification of progressive systemnic sclerosis. International Conference on PSS (scleroderma). Austin, 20-23 October 1981. Arthritis Rheum in press. 5 Giordano M, Valentini G, Ara M, Tirri G, Capeili L, Vatti ...

  Trematodes are important in economic and public health. Ornithobilharzia turkestanicum (O. turkestanicum) is one of the important economic trematodes in domestic animals. Ornithobilharzia infection in intermediate host (Lymnaea gedrosiana ) can be detected by either exposing snails to light to induce cercarial shedding or by squeezing them between glass slides to detect parasites. The current...

The present study aims to clarify the inhibitive effect of the compounds from Rheum palmatum L. on the SARS-3CL protease. The SARS-CoV 3CL gene was amplified from RNA of the SARS virus by PCR. The SARS-CoV 3CL protease was purified from a colon bacillus recombinant. Drugs and 3CL protease were incubated together. The inhibition rate and IC(50) were calculated based on absorbance. Components fro...

Rheum emodi or Himalayan rhubarb is a perennial herb belongs to family Polygonaceae. It has been used in various traditional systems as laxative, tonic, diuretic and to treat fever, cough, indigestion, menstrual disorder since antiquity. This paper consists of literature of Rheum emodi regarding its ethnobotany, folkloric uses, chemical properties and pharmacological studies. The material was c...

3. SOLOMAN DH, KAVANAUGH AJ, SCHUR PH: American College of Rheumatology Ad Hoc Committee on Immunologic Testing: Evidence-based guidelines for the use of Immunologic tests: antinuclear antibody testing. Arthritis Rheum 2002; 47: 434-44. 4. GORDON T. ISENBURG D: The Endocrinologic Associations ofthe Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases. Semin Arthritis Rheum 1987; 17: 58-70. 5. TEKTONIDOU MG, ANAPLIOUT...

Chloroplast microsatellite primers were developed in order to provide more population genetic information of endangered Rheum officinale, R. palmatum, and R. tanguticum for conservation. The dried roots and rhizomes of these plants are important in traditional Chinese medicine. The results showed that the optimum concentrations of Mg(2+), Taq DNA polymerase, dNTPs, template DNA, and primers in ...

ankylosing spondylitis and related spondyloarthropathies. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 1995;21:117–28. 2. D’Agostino MA, Breban M, Said-Nahal R, Dougados M. Refractory inflammatory heel pain in spondylarthropathy: a significant response to infliximab documented by ultrasound. Arthritis Rheum 2002;46:840–1. 3. Olivieri I, Padula A, Barozzi L. The enthesiopathy: clinical manifestations, imaging and tr...