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Cytotoxic effects of two extracts from garlic ( L.) cultivars on the human squamous carcinoma cell line SCC-15.

Garlic ( L., Alliaceae) has acquired a reputation as a therapeutic agent and herbal remedy to prevent and treat several pathologies. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of two L. cultivars, HarnaÅ› and Morado, on reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, viability and apoptotic process in human squamous carcinoma cell line SCC-15. The experiments were conducted on SCC-15 cell ...

Oct 12 2016 30591788

Improving information retrieval in functional analysis.

Transcriptome analysis is essential to understand the mechanisms regulating key biological processes and functions. The first step usually consists of identifying candidate genes; to find out which pathways are affected by those genes, however, functional analysis (FA) is mandatory. The most frequently used strategies for this purpose are Gene Set and Singular Enrichment Analysis (GSEA and SEA) ov...

Sep 24 2016 27723507
Mapping Phenotypic Information in Heterogeneous Textual Sources to a Domain-Specific Terminological Resource.

Biomedical literature articles and narrative content from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) both constitute rich sources of disease-phenotype informati...

Sep 19 2016 27643689
Effect of extract on the phase and morphology of calcium oxalate crystals.

OBJECTIVE: Calcium oxalate crystals are found in majority of kidney stones with calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) as one of the primary types of kidne...

Sep 3 2016 29387552
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND FT-IR ANALYSIS OF AND LEAF AND SEED METHANOLIC EXTRACTS.

BACKGROUND: (family- Solanaceae), has a long history of being used as herbal medicine. These medicinal effects have been attributed to the phytochemi...

Aug 12 2016 28487888
Simultaneous characterization and quantification of 17 main compounds in Rabdosia rubescens by high performance liquid chromatography.

Rabdosia rubescens is a healthy herbal tea and well-known Chinese medicinal herb. To evaluate the quality of R. rubescens from China, a high performan...

Jul 26 2016 28911685
Ginseng essence, a medicinal and edible herbal formulation, ameliorates carbon tetrachloride-induced oxidative stress and liver injury in rats.

BACKGROUND: Ginseng essence (GE) is a formulation comprising four medicinal and edible herbs including ginseng (), American ginseng (), lotus seed (),...

Jul 25 2016 28701872
Chinese Herbal Medicine Image Recognition and Retrieval by Convolutional Neural Network.

Chinese herbal medicine image recognition and retrieval have great potential of practical applications. Several previous studies have focused on the r...

Jun 3 2016 27258404
Big Data and machine learning in radiation oncology: State of the art and future prospects.

Precision medicine relies on an increasing amount of heterogeneous data. Advances in radiation oncology, through the use of CT Scan, dosimetry and ima...

May 27 2016 27241666
Protection of hepatotoxicity using by prevention of ethanol-induced oxidative stress, DNA-damage and altered biochemical markers in Wistar rats.

BACKGROUND: Traditional systems of medicine use herbal drugs for hepatoprotection. Thus, the study was designed to evaluate the hepatoprotective and a...

May 17 2016 28462128
Multimodal hybrid imaging agents for sentinel node mapping as a means to (re)connect nuclear medicine to advances made in robot-assisted surgery.

PURPOSE: Radical prostatectomy and complementary extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) of sentinel lymph nodes (SNs) and non-sentinel lymph no...

Jan 15 2016 26768422
Mitigating Effect of Resveratrol on the Structural Changes of Mice Liver and Kidney Induced by Cadmium; A Stereological Study.

Exposure to cadmium (Cd) has harmful effects on the liver and kidney. Resveratrol (RES) is an herbal substance that functions as a protective mediator...

Dec 31 2015 26770914
A simple and sensitive UHPLC-MS/MS method for quantification of buddlejasaponin IV in rat plasma and its application to a pharmacokinetic study.

Buddlejasaponin IV (BS-IV), a natural triterpene saponin isolated from several herbal plants, has drawn a lot of attention for its anti-inflammatory, ...

Dec 29 2015 26774034
Protective Effects of Thymoquinone against Methotrexate-Induced Germ Cell Apoptosis in Male Mice.

BACKGROUND: Toxic effects of anti-cancer and other drugs on the normal tissues could be reduced by the herbal plants and their fractions. This study i...

Dec 23 2015 26985343
Serum concentrations of clarithromycin and rifampicin in pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease: long-term changes due to drug interactions and their association with clinical outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Concomitant use of clarithromycin (CAM) and rifampicin (RFP) for the treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease affe...

Nov 14 2015 26819743
POETenceph - Automatic identification of clinical notes indicating encephalopathy using a realist ontology.

Identifying inpatients with encephalopathy is important. The disorder is prevalent, often missed, and puts patients at risk. We describe POETenceph, n...

Nov 5 2015 26958184
Choice reaching with a LEGO arm robot (CoRLEGO): The motor system guides visual attention to movement-relevant information.

We present an extension of a neurobiologically inspired robotics model, termed CoRLEGO (Choice reaching with a LEGO arm robot). CoRLEGO models experim...

Nov 4 2015 26667353
In vitro, ex vivo and in vivo anti-hypertensive activity of Chrysophyllum cainito L. extract.

Chrysophyllum cainito L., a traditional herbal medicine, could have the potential for management of hypertension due to presence of polyphenolic compo...

Oct 15 2015 26770385
Effects of the herb mixture, DTS20, on oxidative stress and plasma alcoholic metabolites after alcohol consumption in healthy young men.

BACKGROUND: This study was designed to investigate the effect of a herbal mixture extract (DTS20) on the attenuation of oxidative stress and hangover ...

Oct 13 2015 28462133
A miniature surface tension-driven robot using spatially elliptical moving legs to mimic a water strider's locomotion.

The highly agile and efficient water-surface locomotion of the water strider has stimulated substantial interest in biomimetic research. In this paper...

Aug 4 2015 26241519
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