Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease caused by variety of factors, which highly prevalent in the elderly population and mainly characterized articular cartilage degeneration surrounding bone regeneration, with clinical manifestations repeated swelling, pain, stiffness deformity at later stage. OA chronic that gives patients their relatives many life inconveniences economic pressu...

Purpose: To study the effect of Clematis chinensis extract (CCE) on diabetic nephropathy in rats. Methods: Eight-week old male Wistar rats were injected with streptozotocin to induce diabetes. The effects of CCE(250 or 500 mg/kg) on renal function index, fasting blood glucose (FBG), blood fat, oxidation index, and pathological kidney changes for 3 weeks were compared to those of the positive co...

Ascochyta and Phoma are fungal genera containing several important plant pathogenic species. These genera are morphologically similar, and recent molecular studies performed to unravel their phylogeny have resulted in the establishment of several new genera within the newly erected Didymellaceae family. An analysis of the structure of fungal mating-type genes can contribute to a better understa...