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Medicines, Volume 7, Issue 8

2020 August - 8 articles

Cover Story: Motor estimation error is an index of how accurately one’s body movement is recognized. Our study determined whether motor estimation error distance is a specific symptom of Parkinson’s disease using a two-step task. Motor estimation error distance was related to not only Parkinson’s disease but also aging. View this paper
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Articles (8)

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
15,525 Views
37 Pages

Medicinal Herbs Used in Traditional Management of Breast Cancer: Mechanisms of Action

  • Donovan A. McGrowder,
  • Fabian G. Miller,
  • Chukwuemeka R. Nwokocha,
  • Melisa S. Anderson,
  • Cameil Wilson-Clarke,
  • Kurt Vaz,
  • Lennox Anderson-Jackson and
  • Jabari Brown

Background: Breast cancer is one of the principal causes of death among women and there is a pressing need to develop novel and effective anti-cancer agents. Natural plant products have shown promising results as anti-cancer agents. Their effectivene...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
24,266 Views
28 Pages

Trying to Solve the Puzzle of the Interaction of Ascorbic Acid and Iron: Redox, Chelation and Therapeutic Implications

  • George J. Kontoghiorghes,
  • Annita Kolnagou,
  • Christina N. Kontoghiorghe,
  • Loukia Mourouzidis,
  • Viktor A. Timoshnikov and
  • Nikolay E. Polyakov

Iron and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) are essential nutrients for the normal growth and development of humans, and their deficiency can result in serious diseases. Their interaction is of nutritional, physiological, pharmacological and toxicological int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,876 Views
9 Pages

Modulation of Th1/Th2 Cytokine Balance by Quercetin In Vitro

  • Yoshihito Tanaka,
  • Atsuko Furuta,
  • Kazuhito Asano and
  • Hitome Kobayashi

Background: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is well known to be an IgE-mediated chronic inflammatory disease in the nasal wall, which is primarily mediated by Th2-type cytokines such as IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13. Although quercetin is also accepted to attenuate t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,288 Views
42 Pages

Renal cell cancer (RCC) involves three most recurrent sporadic types: clear-cell RCC (70–75%, CCRCC), papillary RCCC (10–15%, PRCC), and chromophobe RCC (5%, CHRCC). Hereditary cases account for about 5% of all cases of RCC and are caused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,423 Views
9 Pages

Relationship between Motor Estimation Error and Physical Function in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

  • Katsuya Sakai,
  • Tsubasa Kawasaki,
  • Yumi Ikeda,
  • Keita Tominaga and
  • Kohei Kurihara

Background: Motor estimation error is an index of how accurately one’s body movement is recognized. This study determines whether motor estimation error distance is a Parkinson’s disease (PD)- or age-related disability using a two-step ta...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,994 Views
26 Pages

Background: Numerous studies have used autologous mesenchymal stem cell injections (AMSCI) to treat osteoarthritis. We hypothesized that AMSCI is an effective osteoarthritis treatment with increasing efficacy at higher doses. Methods: We conducted a...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,660 Views
24 Pages

e-Health: A Future Solution for Optimized Management of Elderly Patients. GER-e-TEC™ Project

  • Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar,
  • Noël Lorenzo-Villalba,
  • Oumair-Ahmad Zulfiqar,
  • Mohamed Hajjam,
  • Quentin Courbon,
  • Lucie Esteoulle,
  • Bernard Geny,
  • Samy Talha,
  • Dominique Letourneau and
  • Emmanuel Andres
  • + 3 authors

Background: Elderly residents in nursing homes have multiple comorbidities (including cognitive and psycho-behavioral pathologies, malnutrition, heart failure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and renal failure) and use multiple medic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,300 Views
19 Pages

Potency of Combining Eucalyptus camaldulensis subsp. camaldulensis with Low-Dose Cisplatin in A549 Human Lung Adenocarcinomas and MCF-7 Breast Adenocarcinoma

  • Mohamad Nasser,
  • Raghida Damaj,
  • Othmane Merah,
  • Akram Hijazi,
  • Christine Trabolsi,
  • Nour Wehbe,
  • Malak Nasser,
  • Batoul Al-Khatib and
  • Ziad Damaj

Background: Lung and breast cancers are common in the world and represent major public health problems. Systemic chemotherapy is an effective way to prolong survival but it is associated with side effects. Plants are used as traditional treatments fo...

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