Therapeutic Potential of Combined Herbal Medicine and Electroacupuncture in Mild Cognitive Impairment Through Cytokine Modulation: An Observational Study.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a combined herbal formula and electroacupuncture (EA) for mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a neurodegenerative disease leading to dementia, and its underlying mechanisms of action.

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective open-label observational pilot study at Daejeon Korean Medicine Hospital of Daejeon University in South Korea from March 2022 to March 2023. We included six Korean patients (50% male) aged ≥ 45 years and < 85 years with MCI, a clinical dementia rating score of 0.

Effect of charge storage engineering on the NO gas sensing properties of a WO FET-type gas sensor with a horizontal floating-gate.

In this paper, we investigate the effects of charge storage engineering (CSE) on the NO gas sensing properties such as response, recovery, and sensitivity of a FET-type gas sensor with a horizontal floating-gate (FG) having tungsten trioxide (WO) as a sensing layer. When the FET transducer is set at an erase state (ΔV = -2 V), the holes injected into the FG by Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling increase the electron concentration at the WO-passivation layer interface. Accordingly, an oxidizing gas, NO, can take more electrons from WO, which increases the change in the FG voltage (ΔV) by a factor of 2.