The Immunologic Profiles of Kawasaki Disease Triggered by Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection.

Objective: We compared the immunologic characteristics of mycoplasma pneumoniae-triggered Kawasaki disease (MP-KD) with Kawasaki disease (KD) not associated with mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP), with mycoplasma pneumoniae-triggered Henoch-Schönlein purpura (MP-HSP), and with healthy controls.

Methods: Complement levels, cellular and humoral immunity were assessed in KD, in MP-KD, in MP-HSP, and in healthy children.

Results: Of 622 children with KD, 74 had MP-KD.

Characterisation of phenols and antioxidant and hypolipidaemic activities of Lethariella cladonioides.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the antioxidant and hypolipidaemic activities of an ethanol extract of Lethariella cladonioides (Nyl.) Krog (EE) and to characterise its chemical constituents.

Results: Nine phenols were identified as canarione, thamnolic acid, squamatic acid, vermicularin, norstictic acid, baeomycesis acid, lecanoric acid, barbatinic acid and usnic acid from analysis of EE by using high-performance liquid chromatography with a diode array detector-mass spectrometry.

Topical anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity of kirenol isolated from Siegesbeckia orientalis.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Siegesbeckia orientalis has been traditionally used as a topical anti-inflammatory and analgesic agent.

Aims Of The Study: Current study was designed to explore the topical anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of a constituent isolated from Siegesbeckia orientalis (Compositae), in order to validate its folk use.

Materials And Methods: Kirenol was isolated from ethanolic extract of Siegesbeckia orientalis.

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of the wound healing properties of Siegesbeckia pubescens.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Siegesbeckia pubescens (SP) has been traditionally used as a wound healing agent.

Aim Of The Study: Investigate in vitro and in vivo healing properties of SP extract.

Materials And Methods: The methanolic extract of SP was tested for the ability to stimulate the growth of mouse fibroblast NIH3T3 in vitro.

Parathelypteriside attenuates cognition deficits in d-galactose treated mice by increasing antioxidant capacity and improving long-term potentiation.

Parathelypteriside (PG), a stilbenoid compound, was extracted from Parathelypteris glanduligera (kze.) ching that exhibits antioxidative and anti-inflammatory effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the protective effect of PG against the d-galactose (d-gal)-induced neurotoxicity in mice.

[Two new flavan glycosides from Abacopteris penangiana].

To study the chemical constituents of Abacopteris penangiana (Hook.) Ching, various chromatographic techniques were used to isolate and purify the constituents. The structures of the obtained compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic data and physical-chemical properties.

[Phenols from the rhizomes of Arachniodes exilis].

Objective: To study the chemical constituents of Arachniodes exilis.

Methods: The methanolic extract was isolated and purified by silica gel, C18 reverse phase silica gel and Sepadex LH-20 gel column chromatography. The chemical structures were elucidated on the basis of the physicochemical properties and spectral data.

[Studies on chemical constituents of Arachniodes rhomboidea].

Objective: To study chemical constituents of Arachniodes rhomboidea.

Method: Silica gel column chromatography and Sephadex LH -20 gel column chromatography were employed for the isolation and purification. The structures were identified on the basis of spectral data and chemical methods.

[Research on formulation process of Yigong capsule].

Objective: To choose the best supplementary material and formulation process of Yigong capsule.

Methods: Critical relative humidity, absorption curve of moisture, angle of repose were used as the norms of the research. The suitable preparation and formulation process of Yigong capsule had been sieved.

Simultaneous determination of 10 active components in traditional Chinese medicine "YIGONG" capsule by RP-HPLC-DAD.

A simple, reliable and accurate method for the simultaneous separation and determination of 10 active components (psoralen, isopsoralen, emodin, oleanolic acid, stachydrine hydrochloride, ammonium glycyrrhizinate, glycyrrhizinate, schizandrol, imperatorin and isoimperatorin) in traditional Chinese medicine "YIGONG" capsule was developed using reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) coupled with diode array detection. The chromatographic separation was performed on a Eurospher C(18) column (250 mm x 4.6 mm i.

Chemical constituents of radix Ranunculus ternati.

3 Beta-acetoxy-(20S, 22E)-dammaran-22-en-25-ol, a new triterpene, was isolated along with five known triterpenes (ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, betulinic acid, 3-epiocotillol acetate, and dimmarenediol II acetate), and alpha-D-glc and sucrose from Radix Ranunculus ternati All of them, except oleanolic acid and alpha-D-glc, were isolated from the family of Ranunculaceae for the very first time, and the NMR data of sucrose was first described. In addition, the absolute configurations of alpha-D-glc and the glucose component of sucrose were determined.

[Studies on chemical constituents in leaf of Isatis indigotica].

Objective: To study the chemical constituents of the leaf of Isatis indigotica.

Method: Chromatography and spectral analysis were respectively used to isolate and identify the constituents.

Result: Three compounds were isolated from the ethanol extracts of theleaf of I.