The authentication of Ziziphi Spinosae Semen (ZSS), Ziziphi Mauritianae Semen (ZMS), and Hovenia Acerba Semen (HAS) has become challenging. The chromatic and textural properties of ZSS, ZMS, and HAS are analyzed in this study. Color features were extracted via RGB, CIELAB, and HSI spaces, whereas texture information was analyzed via the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and Law's texture feature analysis.
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November 2023
HSP90 is a widely distributed molecular chaperone that participates in a variety of cellular processes and plays an important role in the meiosis of germ cells. However, its role in the gonadal development of hermaphroditic Whitmania pigra is not yet clear. To explore the effect of HSP90 on the germ cell development of Wh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe growth environment of medicinal plants plays an important role in the formation of their medicinal quality. However, there is a lack of combined analysis studying the close relationship between the growth environment, chemical components, and related biological activities of medicinal plants. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of different soil moisture treatments on the efficacy to eliminate dampness and relieve jaundice and the flavonoid content of Sedum sarmentosum, and explored their correlation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLight is the main source of energy for plant growth. Studies have shown that I. indigotica is a light-demanding plant and its yield and various active components are positively correlated with light intensity, but no studies of light intensity affecting energy metabolism in I.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsatis indigotica Fortune is a plant species containing lignan compounds of significant economic value. Its root plays a crucial role in treating viruses and exhibits antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and other biological activities. Now, I.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Isatis tinctoria Linnaeus and Isatis indigotica Fortune are very inconsistent in their morphological characteristics, but the Flora of China treats them as the same species. In this work, a new technology that differs from conventional barcodes is developed to prove that they are different species and to clarify their classification.
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Hirudomacin (Hmc) belongs to the Macin family of antimicrobial peptides, which can be used for bactericidal purposes by cleaving cell membranes. Although the Macin family has broad-spectrum antibacterial properties, few studies have been reported on bacterial inhibition by enhancing innate immunity. To further investigate the mechanism of Hmc inhibition, we chose the classical innate immune model organism Caenorhabditis elegans as the study subject.
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August 2022
Light is the main source for plants to obtain energy.Asarum forbesii is a typical shade medicinal plant, which generally grows in the shady and wet place under the bushes or beside the ditches.It can grow and develop without too much light intensity.
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June 2022
According to the Chinese Pharmacopoeia(2020 edition), Eupolyphaga Steleophaga is prepared from female Eupolyphaga sinensis. To explore the quality difference between male and female E. sinensis, the present study determined indexes in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, anticoagulant activity, and content of primary metabolites, amino acids, and trace elements in male and female E.
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November 2021
Screening the reference genes that were stably expressed under different light intensities for Viola yedoensis could provide reference for the related molecular research. In this study, 11 candidate reference genes were detected by RT-qPCR for tissues of V. yedoensis treated with different light intensities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProtein kinase C(PKC) is a kind of kinase which is widely involved in cell proliferation and development. PKC(Wp-PKC) in Whitmania pigra body belongs to classic PKC. In order to investigate the effect of Wp-PKC on the development of Wh.
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February 2021
Protein kinase C(PKC) is a type of protein kinase widely involved in cell proliferation and development, but the developmental mechanism in the gonads of androgynous animals is still unclear. In order to explore the role of protein kinase C in the development of Whitmania pigra germ cells, the Wh. pigra PKC(Wp-PKC) gene was cloned, bioinformatics analysis was conducted, and fluorescent quantitative PCR was used to analyze the expression of female and male gonads.
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December 2020
Light energy is an important factor affecting plant growth. The hypothesis of "light-cold and heat property" holds that the original plants of traditional Chinese medicines(TCM) with cold property can obtain more energy to maintain growth in high light intensity environment, whereas the original plants of TCM with heat property prefer weak light environment. The current experiment investigated the effects of different light intensities on primary metabolites levels, energy levels, cell apoptosis, and leaves ultrastructure of Viola yedoensis, the original plants of TCM Violae Herba with cold property.
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August 2020
The current study was conducted to explore the effects of light intensity in cultivating environment on the cleaning away heat property of Viola yedoensis. In the present study, we established the acute inflammation model of ICR mice by injecting carrageenan. We compared the effects of V.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHibernation is an energy-saving and adaptive strategy adopted by leech, an important medicinal resource in Asia, to survive low temperature. Reversible protein phosphorylation (RPP) plays a key role in the regulation of mammalian hibernation processes but has never been documented in freshwater invertebrate such as leech. In this study, we detected the effects of hibernation on the proteome and phosphoproteome of the leech Whitmania pigra.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study was conducted to explore the effect of constant temperature overwintering on the growth, gonadal development and internal quality of the Wh. pigra which were in overwintering period. Wh.
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April 2020
By analyzing the effects of light intensity on the growth, physiological and biochemical characteristics of Chrysanthemum indicum, the light intensity suitable for the growth of Ch. indicum was revealed, which provided a reference for the planting of Ch. indicum.
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October 2019
The objectives of study were to explore the effects of exogenous methyltestosterone( MT) on the growth and gonadal development of overwintering Whitmania pigra. Before overwintering,0. 1,1.
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August 2019
The present study was conducted to explores the effects of short-term addition of 17β-E2 on the growth,gonad development and internal quality of overwintering Whitmania pigra. Before overwintering,0. 0,1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranscriptome sequencing data (6.5 Gb) of the salivary glands of the haematophagous leech was obtained by using the BGIseq-500 platform. After identification and analysis, one transcript (Unigene5370) was annotated to hirudin HV3 from with an -value of 1e-29 and was named hirudin-HN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study is aimed to investigate the effects of light intensities on growth,photosynthetic physiology,antioxidant systems and chemical composition of Viola yedoensis and provide cultivation references for V.yedoensis.Five groups of V.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe novel antimicrobial gene Hirudomacin (Hmc), with a 249-bp cDNA, encodes a mature protein of 61 amino acids and a 22-amino acid signal peptide. Hmc exhibits the highest similarity, at 90.1%, with macin family members found in the salivary gland of the leech Hirudo nipponica Whitman.
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September 2018
The present study was conducted to investigate the rule of sex steroid hormones dynamic in the periodic development of Whitmania pigra gonad. The dynamic of sex steroid hormones in different age of Wh. pigra were detected by enzymolysis, extraction and UPLC-MS/MS.
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September 2018
In this paper, on the contrast of healthy leech, the bacterial diversities were analyzed by 16S rDNA sequence analysis of the bacteria of muscle and intestinal tract of Whitmania pigra, the environment water and sediment of cultivating the diseased Wh. pigra in high temperature by high-throughput sequencing to determine the possible pathogenic bacteria of bacterial diseases of Leech in high temperature. The results showed that the original sequence reached over 83 000, and the effective sequences accounted for more than 87%.
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September 2018
The present study explored the effects of Cu²⁺enrichment and release on the growth and internal quality of Whitmania pigra, and the regularity of enrichment and release in different tissues of Wh. pigra. In the range of safe concentration(SC), a certain concentration of Cu²⁺ was added to the Wh.
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