This study examined the biological characteristics of normal and degenerated rabbit nucleus pulposus (NP) cells in vitro in order to provide seed cells for inte
An emerging infectious disease was identified as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in central China since late March 2009. We found the patient
The activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and their transformation to myofibroblasts are the key steps in the pathological progress of liver fibrosis.The
This study is designed to evaluate antioxidant and antigenotoxic activities of corn tassel extracts(CTTs).The major bioactive components of CTTs include flavono
Dioscin is a natural steroid saponin derived from several plants,showing potent anti-cancer effect against a variety of tumor cell lines.In the present study,we