Heavy metals in urban dust could pose noticeable human health risks, but there are few studies focusing on comprehensive human health risk assessment with the incorporation of both bioaccessibility and source apportionment in urban dust.Thus, fifty-eight urban dust samples were collected from kindergartens in Xiamen to analyze the bioaccessibility-
The constellation of dyslipidemia (hypertriglyceridemia and low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), elevated blood pressure, impaired glucose tolerance, and central obesity is now classified as dress metabolic syndrome, also called syndrome X.In the past few years, several expert groups have attempted to set forth simple diagnostic cri
Slime mold species in the genus Dictyostelium are considered to have a close relationship Educational Toys with non-parasitic nematodes; they are sympatric in soils and can exhibit interspecific competition for food.We investigated whether this relationship extends to a plant-parasitic nematode that is active in the rhizosphere and has broad host s
Background: The traditional medicine oyaksungi-san (OY) has been prescribed in East Asia for hundreds of years for the treatment of stroke, paralysis, and ataxia.OY also has therapeutic effects on arthralgia, myalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis, and recent studies have shown its protective effects against apoptosis of hippocampal cells and its anti-i
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of 20-24 nt non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression primarily through post-transcriptional repression or mRNA degradation in a sequence-specific manner.The roles of miRNAs are just beginning to be understood, but the study of miRNA function has been limited by poor understanding of the general principles of gene