BACKGROUND Gleditsia sinensis thorns have been widely used in traditional Korean medicine for the treatment of several diseases, including obesity, thrombosis, and tumor-related diseases. The aim of the study is to determine the antiangiogenic effect of Gleditsia sinensis thorns in vitro and in vivo in a bid to evaluate its potential as an anticancer drug. METHODS Ethanol extract of Gleditsia...

introduction: the most important subcutaneous fungal infections in man are caused by injury due to contaminated thistles and thorns. from an epidemiological point of view , it is important to recognize the fungi as well as their frequency of them in various thistles and thorns methods: the present research has been conducted on thorns and thistles of 16 regions including cities and villages of ...

Cactus Code is an open source framework designed primarily for scientists and engineers, in which the core or “flesh” acts as a central unit to which external modules or “thorns” can interface. Cactus is used on many different architectures and can be used to implement different codes from various disciplines. While initially developed for solving problems in numerical relativity, it has since ...

Modulation of synapses under acute stress is attracting much attention. Exposure to acute stress induces corticosterone (CORT) secretion from the adrenal cortex, resulting in rapid increase of CORT levels in plasma and the hippocampus. We tried to test whether rapid CORT effects involve activation of essential kinases as non-genomic processes. We demonstrated rapid effects (~1 h) of CORT on the...

We explore here the occurrence of aggressive ants in an apparently symbiotic relationship with the savanna tree Acacia drepanolobium and their effects on giraffe herbivory on the Athi-Kapiti Plains, Kenya. Trees taller than 1.3 m were more likely to be occupied by aggressive ants in the genus Crematogaster than were shorter trees. Ants were concentrated on shoot tips, the plant parts preferred ...

Desmotersia levinae gen. n., sp. n. is proposed, based on material found in bathyal oxygen minimum zone sediments off the coast of Peru. Desmotersia closely resembles Richtersia in the animals’ general appearance and in spiny ornamentation of the body cuticle, but clearly differs in stoma structure and by the presence of a dorsal tooth. The systematic positions of the two genera are discussed, ...