COMPARATIVE CHLOROPLAST GENOME ANALYSIS OF RHUBARB BOTANICAL ORIGINS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC IDENTIFICATION MARKERS

Comparative Chloroplast Genome Analysis of Rhubarb Botanical Origins and the Development of Specific Identification Markers

Rhubarb is an important ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine known as Rhei radix et rhizome.However, this common name refers to three different botanical species with different pharmacological effects.To facilitate the genetic identification of these three species for their more precise application in Chinese medicine we here want to provide

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From Oxytocin to Compassion: The Saliency of Distress

Compassion is a warm response of care and concern for those who are suffering, which drives individuals to devote their resources for the sake of others.A prominent neuroevolutionary framework grounds compassion in the neurobiology of the mammalian caregiving system.Accordingly, it has been suggested that the oxytocinergic system, which plays a Wat

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Lung cancer in the Kashmir valley

Background: Lung cancer has been found to be the second commonest cancer according to a hospital-based data from Kashmir, India.However, no incidence studies are available.Objective: To ascertain the incidence of lung cancer in Kashmir.Materials and Methods: All newly histologically diagnosed cases of lung cancer seen in various hospital and privat

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Conditional knockout of tumor overexpressed gene in mouse neurons affects RNA granule assembly, granule translation, LTP and short term habituation.

In neurons, specific RNAs are assembled into granules, which are translated in dendrites, however the functional consequences of granule assembly are not known.Tumor overexpressed gene (TOG) is a granule-associated protein containing multiple binding sites for heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A2, Cholesterol Synthesis another granule

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