CSF flow pathways through the ventricle-cistern interfaces in kaolin-induced hydrocephalus rats-laboratory investigation.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify direct cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways in the interface between ventricles and cisterns. Such routes are hypothesized to be involved in alternative CSF flows in abnormal circumstances of CSF circulation.

Methods: Chronic obstructive hydrocephalus models were induced in ten Sprague-Dawley rats with kaolin injection into the cisterna magna.

Pinelliae Rhizoma herbal-acupuncture solution induced apoptosis in human cervical cancer cells, SNU-17.

Pinelliae Rhizoma has been used traditionally in Korea to promote the liver Qi activity and the function of the digestive system. We investigated whether the Pinelliae Rhizoma herbal-acupuncture solution (PRHS) would induce cell-death on SNU-17, human cervical cancer cells. 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay was used to investigate the cytotoxicity of PRHS.