Absorbed Bioactive Compounds Replicate Guanxin II-Induced Endothelium-Associated in/ex vivo Vasodilation.

Objective: To develop an interference-free and rapid method to elucidate Guanxin II (GX II)'s representative vasodilator absorbed bioactive compounds (ABCs) among enormous phytochemicals.

Methods: The contents of ferulic acid, tanshinol, and hydroxysafflor yellow A (FTA) in GX II/rat serum after the oral administration of GX II (30 g/kg) were detected using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Totally 18 rats were randomly assigned to the control group (0.

Effects of Group Music Intervention on Depression for Elderly People in Nursing Homes.

Depression is the most common mental problem among the elderly, especially in long-term care facilities. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of group music intervention on depression for elderly people in nursing homes. Methods: A randomized control trial consisting of sixty-three elderly participants randomly and blindly assigned to a music group or control group was utilized.

Ursolic acid inhibits Th17 cell differentiation via STAT3/RORγt pathway and suppresses Schwann cell-mediated Th17 cell migration by reducing CXCL9/10 expression.

Th17 cells represent important immune cells. Ursolic acid (UA) can regulate immune cell activities. This study was aimed to explore the effects of UA on Th17 cell differentiation and Schwann cell(SCs)-mediated migration and the potential mechanism.

Role of miR-211 in a PC12 cell model of Alzheimer's disease via regulation of neurogenin 2.

New Findings: What is the central question of this study? What is the mechanism of miR-211 in an Alzheimer's disease cell model? What is the main finding and its importance? miR-211 was upregulated in an Alzheimer's disease cell model. It targeted neurogenin 2, reduced the activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase-Akt signalling pathway, inhibited the proliferation of the Alzheimer's disease cell model and promoted apoptosis.

Abstract: MicroRNAs (miRs) are aberrantly expressed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

Chromatographic studies of unusual on-column degradation of cefaclor observed in the impurity separation by HPLC.

An unpredictable ghost peak was intermittently observed during the impurity separation of cefaclor and formulation by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a content from below the reported threshold to approximately 0.3% in different laboratories. Through a series of investigations, the ghost peak was identified as an unusual on-column degradant of cefaclor formed under elevated column temperature but was not an actual sample impurity.

Chaihu-Shugan-San and absorbed meranzin hydrate induce anti-atherosclerosis and behavioral improvements in high-fat diet ApoE mice via anti-inflammatory and BDNF-TrkB pathway.

The comorbidity of coronary heart disease (CHD) and depression in patients is extremely prevalent, with a rate from 20 to 50%, while depression-like behaviors exist in a larger percentage of patients. Therefore, the study of comorbidities is particularly urgent. Chaihu-Shugan-San (CSS), a classical traditional Chinese medicine formula, has been used to treat CHD with depression for hundreds of years.

A Correlational Study on Cerebral Microbleeds and Carotid Atherosclerosis in Patients with Ischemic Stroke.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between cerebral microbleeds and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with ischemic stroke.

Subjects And Methods: Patients with ischemic stroke treated in a hospital in China from 2016 to 2017 were enrolled in the study. Based on the results from susceptibility-weighted imaging, the patients were divided into cerebral microbleed and noncerebral microbleed groups.

Optical full-depth refocusing of 3-D objects based on subdivided-elemental images and local periodic δ-functions in integral imaging.

We propose a new approach for optical refocusing of three-dimensional (3-D) objects on their real depth without a pickup-range limitation based on subdivided-elemental image arrays (sub-EIAs) and local periodic δ-function arrays (L-PDFAs). The captured EIA from the 3-D objects locating out of the pickup-range, is divided into a number of sub-EIAs depending on the object distance from the lens array. Then, by convolving these sub-EIAs with each L-PDFA whose spatial period corresponds to the specific object's depth, as well as whose size is matched to that of the sub-EIA, arrays of spatially-filtered sub-EIAs (SF-sub-EIAs) for each object depth can be uniquely extracted.

Integral imaging-based large-scale full-color 3-D display of holographic data by using a commercial LCD panel.

We propose a new type of integral imaging-based large-scale full-color three-dimensional (3-D) display of holographic data based on direct ray-optical conversion of holographic data into elemental images (EIs). In the proposed system, a 3-D scene is modeled as a collection of depth-sliced object images (DOIs), and three-color hologram patterns for that scene are generated by interfering each color DOI with a reference beam, and summing them all based on Fresnel convolution integrals. From these hologram patterns, full-color DOIs are reconstructed, and converted into EIs using a ray mapping-based direct pickup process.