Artemisinin: From Chinese Herbal Medicine to Modern Chemotherapy [PDF]
Malaria is a disease that has blighted humankind since early times. The first antimalarial treatment available to Europeans was the dried bark of the cinchona tree from Peru. The main problem in its use was adulteration by other material.
Butler, Anthony
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Herbal Remedies for Combating Irradiation: a Green Antiirradiation Approach [PDF]
Plants play important roles in human life not only as suppliers of oxygen but also as a fundamental resource to sustain the human race on this earthly plane.
Choong, Y. S. +8 more
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Targeting ferroptosis using Chinese herbal compounds to treat respiratory diseases
Respiratory diseases pose a grave threat to human life. Therefore, understanding their pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy is important. Ferroptosis is a novel type of iron-dependent programmed cell death, distinct from apoptosis, necroptosis, and autophagy, characterised by iron, reactive oxygen species, and lipid peroxide accumulation, as well as ...
Mengjiao Xu, Di Zhang, Jun Yan
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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Antibacterial Modes of Herbal Flavonoids Combat Resistant Bacteria
The increasing dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections endangers global public health. How to develop effective antibacterial agents against resistant bacteria is becoming one of the most urgent demands to solve the drug ...
Lianyu Song +5 more
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EIF1AX Nucleolar Condensates Enhance Susceptibilities for the Management of Endometrial Cancer
This schematic illustrates the mechanism of a senolytic strategy in endometrial cancer. EIF1AX facilitates the incorporation of DDX21 into nucleolar condensates, an event that suppresses rDNA transcription and induces cellular senescence. The compound 2,5‐MeC exploits this pathway by promoting EIF1AX nucleolar translocation and condensate formation ...
Chengyu Lv +8 more
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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in the treatment process. Furthermore, the discovery of artemisinin in Artemisia annua has reduced the incidence of malaria all over the world ...
Xiaoyu Li +4 more
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Confirmation of potential neuroprotective effects of natural bioactive compounds from traditional medicinal herbs in cerebral ischemia treatment [PDF]
Ischemic brain injury is a prevalent disease with high disability and mortality, but no efficient therapeutics for the disease are currently available mainly due to the narrow therapeutic window.
Lu Yu, Jie Tao, Qing Zhao, Chuan Xu, Qiujuan Zhang
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Current status of herbal and their future perspectives [PDF]
Traditional medicine is the synthesis of therapeutic experience of generations of practicing physicians of indigenous systems of medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, many infectious diseases have been treated with herbals.
Ponnampalam Gopalakrishnakone +1 more
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Recent Development of Antitumor Agents from Chinese Herbal Medicines; Part I. Low Molecular Compounds [PDF]
A series of low molecular compounds from Chinese herbal medicines which have proved to be, in some cases, highly effective especially in tumor therapy, is listed here (part II will deal with high molecular compounds, to be published in the next issue). In contrast to synthetic agents used in cancer chemotherapy, these natural compounds have relatively ...
Weici, Tang +2 more
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