Impact of Red Yeast Rice on Metabolic Diseases: A Review of Possible Mechanisms of Action.

Metabolic diseases constitute a major public health burden and are linked with high morbidity and mortality. They comprise atherosclerosis dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. However, there is no single drug that can simultaneously treat multiple diseases with complex underlying mechanisms.

[Radiation Environment Study of Near Space in China Area].

Aerospace activity in near space (20-50 km) has become a research hotspot for aviation big countries worldwide. Solar radiation study, as the prerequisite to carry out aerospace activity, is facing the barrier of lacking of observation in near space layer. Ozone is the most important factor that affects radiation value in this layer.

Magnetoencephalography assessment of evoked magnetic fields and cognitive function in subcortical ischemic vascular dementia patients.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between cognitive impairment and somatosensory evoked magnetic field and auditory evoked magnetic field changes in elderly male patients with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD).

Methods: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to record evoked magnetic field changes from 4 SIVD patients (76-88 years), 3 patients with vascular cognitive impairment with no dementia (VCI-ND; 74-87 years), and 6 healthy volunteers (72-85 years). Latency peaks, equivalent current dipole (ECD) strength, and bilateral ECD position were recorded.

[Preliminary study on the functional localization of auditory cortex in auditory pathology patients using magnetoencephalography].

Objective: To access the pathological changes of the functional localization of the primary auditory cortex in auditory neuropathy patients using magnetoencephalography (MEG).

Methods: The M100 waves of cortical evoked magnetic fields (AEF) evoked by 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 kHz pure tones were measured respectively in 10 auditory neuropathy patients (20 ears) and 15 healthy young subjects (30 ears) using a whole head 306 channel magnetoencephalography (MEG) system.

[Preliminary study on the functional localization of auditory cortex in the healthy young subjects using magnetic source imaging].

Objective: To evaluate the value of magnetic source imaging (MSI) in the functional localization of the primary auditory cortex.

Methods: The M100 waves of cortical auditory evoked magnetic fields (AEFs) evoked by 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8 kHz pure tones in 5 subjects and by 2 kHz pure tones in 25 healthy young subjects were measured respectively (16 males and 14 females, with the age from 20 to 32 years old) using a whole head 306 channel magnetoencephalography (MEG) system.

[The clinical study of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields in patients with acute cerebral infarction by magnetoencephalography].

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEF) in patients with acute cerebral infarction by magnetoencephalgraphy (MEG).

Methods: SEFs were recorded from 17 patients with acute cerebral infarction and 18 healthy volunteers using 306-channel whole-head MEG. The electric stimuli were presented with interstimulus intervals of 0.