Transplantation of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Alleviates Striatal Degeneration in a Transgenic Mouse Model for Multiple System Atrophy.

Patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of adult onset, were found less than 9 years of life expectancy after onset. The disorders include bradykinesia and rigidity commonly seen in Parkinsonism disease and additional signs such as autonomic dysfunction, ataxia, or dementia. In clinical treatments, MSA poorly responds to levodopa, the drug used to remedy Parkinsonism disease.

[Responses of shallow soil water content in Artemisia ordosica community to different rainfall patterns].

The shrub species, Artemisia ordosica, commonly occurs in the eastern Hobq desert. Here, we used a micrometeorological observation system to continuously monitor the rainfall and soil water content in 0-10, 10-30, and 30-50 cm soil layers during the growing season from 2016 to 2018. The dynamic spatial and temporal changes in soil water content under different rainfall patterns were examined, and the replenishing effects of rainfall events on soil water content and water infiltration characteristics were analyzed.

[Variations of soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in the reversion process of desertification in the eastern Hobq Desert, China].

To clarify the effects of desertification reversal on soil respiration rate (R) and its temperature sensitivity (Q), five different reversal stages were selected: mobile dune, semi-fixed sandland, algae crust fixed sandland, lichen crust fixed sandland, and moss crust fixed sandland in the eastern Hobq Desert. R at different stages were measured by static chamber-gas chromatography and the Q was calculated. We analyzed the effects of environmental factors on R.

Greenhouse gas fluxes at different growth stages of biological soil crusts in eastern Hobq desert, China.

We analyzed greenhouse gas fluxes at the different growth stages of algae and lichen crusts in fixed sand with mobile dune as control in the eastern Hobq Desert, China, using the spatio-temporal substitution method. We explored the correlation of these fluxes with environmental factors and with biological soil crust growth. The results showed that variation of CO fluxes followed the order: lichen crust (128.