In the supporting information section of this paper, the structures of oltipraz and safranin in Figure S1 were incorrect. The corrected fi gure may be found at Copyright: © 2007 Kuntz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original au...

Adhesion molecules such as vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) play an important role during the early stages of atherogenesis. Agastache rugosa has an anti-atherogenic effect in low density lipoprotein receptor -/- mice. Moreover, A. rugosa reduced macrophage infiltration and VCAM-1 expression has been localized in aortic endothelium that overlies early foam cell lesions. This study asc...

We cloned the gene of d-limonene synthase (ArLMS) from Agastache rugosa (Labiatae). The function of ArLMS was elucidated by the preparation of recombinant protein and subsequent enzyme assay. ArLMS consisted of 2077 nucleotides including 1839 bp of coding sequence that encodes a protein of 613 amino acids. This protein has a 60 kDa molecular weight, which is identical to that of d-limonene synt...

Althoff, K.-D.; Dengel, A.; Bergmann, R.; Nick, M.; RothBerghofer, Th. (Eds.). Professional Knowledge Management Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 3782 Ralph Bergmann. Experience Management: Foundations, Development Methodology, and Internet-Based Applications, volume 2432 of L...

Steering Bronchoscope-deployed Needles through Porcine Lung Tissue A. Kuntz, P. J. Swaney, A. Mahoney, R. H. Feins, Y. Z. Lee, R. J. Webster III, R. Alterovitz Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA De...

Transient receptor potential ankyrin1 (TRPA1) and transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) are members of the TRP superfamily of structurally related, nonselective cation channels and mediators of several signaling pathways. Previously, we identified methyl syringate as an hTRPA1 agonist with efficacy against gastric emptying. The aim of this study was to find hTRPA1 and/or hTRPV1 activ...