The components of Magnolia officinalis have well known to act anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and neuroprotective activities. These efficacies have been sold many products as nutritional supplement extracted from bark of Magnolia officinalis. Thus, to assess and compare neuroprotective effect in the nutritional supplement (Magnolia Extract(TM), Health Freedom Nutrition LLC, USA) and our ethan...

Nature of Work: ‘Santa Rosa’ magnolia, a selection of the native Magnolia virginiana L. (Sweet Bay magnolia) introduced by Woodlanders Nursery, Aiken, S.C. in 1979, is an upright, evergreen tree with an open growth habit. Leaves of ‘Santa Rosa’ are larger than the species as are the lemon scented flowers (Raulston, personal communication). These attributes along with height growth that approach...

Limited biological information about Phyllophaga ephilida , a major sweet potato pest in Louisiana, is available. In 2001 and 2002, a study was conducted in the laboratory to investigate the feeding preference of adult Phyllophaga ephilida (Say) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) for the foliage of eight woody plant species: water oak ( Quercus nigra L.), live oak ( Quercus virginiana Mill.), red maple...

MAGNOLIA is a new software for multiple alignment of nucleic acid sequences, which are recognized to be hard to align. The idea is that the multiple alignment process should be improved by taking into account the putative function of the sequences. In this perspective, MAGNOLIA is especially designed for sequences that are intended to be either protein-coding or structural RNAs. It extracts inf...

Magnolia is an experimental programming language designed to try out novel language features. For a language to be a flexible basis for new constructs and language extensions, it will need a flexible compiler, one where new features can be prototyped with a minimum of effort. This paper proposes a scheme for compilation by transformation, in which the compilation process can be extended by the ...

Diabetic complications are the major cause of mortality for the patients with diabetes. Oxidative stress and inflammation have been recognized as important contributors for the development of many diabetic complications, such as diabetic nephropathy, hepatopathy, cardiomyopathy, and other cardiovascular diseases. Several studies have established the anti-inflammatory and oxidative roles of bioa...

The objective of present study is to evaluate the effect of anti-allergic activity of dichloromethanolic extract and related lignans from Magnolia biondii Pamp. Dried flower buds of Magnolia biondii were collected in China, three lignans were isolated from dichloromethane extract of Magnolia biondii and identified as: Magnolin, Pinoresinol dimethyl ether, Lirioresinol-B dimethyl ether. Anti-all...

that is widely used in treatment of a broad spectrum of cancers. However, Dox exhibits serious side-effects such as manifestation of arterial and ventricular arrhythmia and development of cumulative dose-dependent cardiomyopathy. These Dox-induced cardiotoxicities are known to be caused mainly by ROS generation, resulting in elevation of intracellular Ca concentration ([Ca ]i) through release f...