In countries having traditional medicine (TM), one of the main challenges for any researcher is research methodology. Current methodologies are different with what was in past. The main purpose of this article is to present the steps (herbs, claims and methodology) of research in TM fields. 1. Assessment of herbs History, method of study, quality assessment, efficacy, safety, toxicity and the...

of general surgery “at the feet of primary care.” Having been involved in an effort to undo the flawed sustainable growth rate system for the past decade, I know that the system is broken. In a rational world, specialties would unite to correct this flawed system, which seems cynically designed to pit specialties against each other. The calculations for physician compensation used in the cited ...

Currently there are over 600 clinical trials listed at www. clinicaltrials.gov utilizing Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) as an experimental cell-based therapy, making MSCs the most commonly employed cell type under investigation for treating human diseases. MSCs have gained widespread use in regenerative medicine due to their demonstrated potency in a broad range of experimental animal models ...

background and aims: sea buckthorn (hippophae rhamnoides l.) is a deciduous plant and has highly variable type and size, from small shrubs to medium-sized trees, traditionally growing in tibet and currently all over the world especially in europe and asia. this study aimed to overview some of therapeutic and non-therapeutic properties of sbt and its potential benefits and side effects in order ...

Methods We have developed a strategy to target the CSC populations in melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma using CSC lysate-pulsed dendritic cells (DC). D5 is a poorly immunogenic clone of the melanoma cell line B16 syngeneic to B6 mice. In minimal tumor model, B6 mice were inoculated subcutaneously with D5 cells. The 1st vaccine was administered 24 hours after tumor inoculation for treatment, ...

We examined the therapeutic efficacy of xenogenic human N'-terminal neu DNA vaccine and autologous mouse N'-terminal neu DNA vaccine on MBT-2 tumor cells in C3H mice. Intramuscular injection of xenogenic and autologous neu DNA vaccines produced comparable therapeutic efficacies. Mouse and human N'-neu DNA vaccine induced tumor infiltration of CD8(+) T cells, while the human vaccine was less eff...