Refined-JQ (JQ-R) is a mixture of refined extracts from Coptis chinensis (Ranunculaceae), Astragalus membranaceus (Leguminosae) and Lonicera japonica (Caprifoliaceae), the three major herbs of JinQi-JiangTang tablet, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula. The mechanisms by which JQ-R regulates glucose metabolism and improves insulin sensitivity were studied in type 2 diabetic KKAy mice a...

The affiliation for the seventh author is incorrect. Ajit Varki is not affiliated with #4 but with #3 University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was also supported by NIH grants R01GM32373 and U01 CA199792 (to AV). There are errors in the Author Contributions. The correct contributions are: Conceived and designed the ex...

With very accurate measurements of the parameters of the ground state charmed mesons, interest has shifted to the array of excited charm meson states, especially with the interesting discoveries of the last year in the Ds sector. In the limit of infinite quark masses, D mesons may be treated as a “hydrogen atom” type object where the heavy quark does not contribute to the orbital degrees of fre...

We establish some notation. Let N be prime and set S = SpecZ[1/2N ]. Denote by XQ = X0(N)/Q and JQ = J0(N) the usual modular curve and its Jacobian over Q, where we normalize the embedding XQ →֒ JQ by requiring ∞ 7→ 0. XQ is the generic fiber of the (smooth) S-curve X = X0(N)/S , and JQ has Néron model J = NéronS(J0(N)), which is in fact an abelian scheme over S. The Néron mapping property gives...

The present study was carried out to introduce foreign DNA from pituitary gland of broiler breeder chickens (BBDNA) or Japanese quails (JQ-DNA) individually into the embryonic cell of Gimmizah chickens, in order to determine the effect of transformed chicken embryos with foreign DNA on blood hematology and biochemical traits, as well as semen characteristics. The results revealed that : 1There ...