Publications by authors named "L Tsung"
Erinacine A has been proven to have the ability to protect nerves and have the benefit of neurohealth. However, the pharmacokinetic and metabolites study of erinacine A in pigs, whose physiology and anatomy are similar to humans, have not been reported. In this study, 5 mg/kg of erinacine A was intravenously administered to the landrace pig.
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- The study aimed to assess the prevalence, clinical features, and genetic factors of mitochondrial diseases (MD) in Hong Kong by analyzing data from public hospitals from 1985 to 2020.
- A total of 119 MD patients were reviewed, revealing a prevalence rate of 1.02 cases per 100,000 people, with neurological issues being the most common symptoms and a 37% mortality rate within the cohort.
- The study highlights the predominance of pathogenic variants in the mitochondrial genome and serves as a foundational step towards creating a local MD registry for further research.
The 25 million Australians today are identified with more than 300 ancestries. People's home language use and shift patterns had demonstrated great variations as more immigrants from Asia-Pacific regions entered Australia. The ethnolinguistic composition of Australia's population had undergone substantial changes in the last few decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article reports on an inquiry that investigated the development of ba constructions in early childhood Mandarin. All cases of ba construction were extracted from the Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus collected from 168 preschoolers aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6 (year; month; Li and Tse, 2011). Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus, University of Hong Kong.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Universal Space-Time Mapping Hypothesis suggests that temporal expression is based on spatial metaphor for all human beings. This study examines its applicability in the Chinese language using the data elicited from the Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus (ECMC) (Li and Tse, 2011), which collected the utterances produced by 168 Mandarin-speaking preschoolers in a semistructured play context. The unique pair of Chinese words, (/before/front) and (/after/back), which can be used to express either time (before/after) or space (front/back) in daily communication, was the unit of analysis.
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