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  1. This study aimed to determine the effects of electroacupuncture stimulation at the Baihui (GV20) and Fengfu (GV16) acupoints, at frequencies of 5Hz (EA-5Hz) and 25Hz (EA-25Hz), 7 days after cerebral ischemia-r...

    Authors: Chin-Yi Cheng, Jaung-Geng Lin, Nou-Ying Tang, Shung-Te Kao and Ching-Liang Hsieh
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:241
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  2. The Piper laetispicum C.DC. (Piperaceae) is a traditionally used herb in China for invigorating circulation and reducing stasis, detumescence and analgesia, which is distributed in the southern part of China and ...

    Authors: Hui Xie, Di Jin, Yun Kang, Xueru Shi, Hongrui Liu, Haixing Shen, Jian Chen, Macheng Yan, Juan Liu and ShengLi Pan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:240
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  3. Patients with major depressive disorder have a higher prevalence and incidence of dyslipidemia. However, clinical studies concerning the association between lipid levels and depression are inconsistent. Adipok...

    Authors: Mimi Tang, Pei Jiang, Huande Li, Yiping Liu, Hualin Cai, Ruili Dang, Wenye Zhu and Lingjuan Cao
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:239
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  4. The inhibitory effect of andrographolide sodium bisulphite (ASB) on jack bean urease (JBU) and Helicobacter pylori urease (HPU) was performed to elucidate the inhibitory potency, kinetics and mechanism of inhibit...

    Authors: Zhi-Zhun Mo, Xiu-Fen Wang, Xie Zhang, Ji-Yan Su, Hai-Ming Chen, Yu-Hong Liu, Zhen-Biao Zhang, Jian-Hui Xie and Zi-Ren Su
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:238
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  5. Antrodia camphorata is a geographically special fungus and is one of the precious traditional medicines of Taiwan. A lot of reports have addressed its antioxidant activities and anticancer activities. In order to...

    Authors: Yu-Lin Hsieh, Szu-Pei Wu, Li-Wen Fang and Tzann-Shun Hwang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:237
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  6. Alteration in antioxidant defence and increase in oxidative stress that results in tissue injury is characteristic of diabetes. We evaluated the protective effects of kolaviron (a flavonoid complex extracted f...

    Authors: Omolola R. Oyenihi, Nicole L. Brooks and Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:236
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  7. So-Cheong-Ryong-Tang, a traditional Korean medicine, has been used empirically for the treatment of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and colds for hundreds of years. However, its genotoxicity has been rarely examined.

    Authors: Mee-Young Lee, Chang-Sebo Seo, Ji-Young Kim and Hyeun-Kyoo Shin
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:235
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  8. Pingchuan Formula (PCF) is a traditional Chinese recipe. PCF improves chronic airway inflammation by correcting the imbalance of T-helper cell ratio. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ...

    Authors: Fei Liu, Jianer Yu, Li Bai, Zheng Xue and Xinguang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:234
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  9. Micromeria croatica (Pers.) Schott is an aromatic plant from Lamiaceae family previously found to possess potent in vitro antioxidant activity which is mainly attributed to the high level of polyphenolic substanc...

    Authors: Sanda Vladimir-Knežević, Olga Cvijanović, Biljana Blažeković, Marija Kindl, Maja Bival Štefan and Robert Domitrović
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:233
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  10. Illicium verum Hook. fil. Illiciaceae (Illicium v.) has been traditionally used in herbal medicine for treating many inflammatory diseases, including skin inflammation and rheumatism. We investigated its use as a...

    Authors: Sun Haeng Park, Yoon-Young Sung, Kyoung Jin Nho and Ho Kyoung Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:232
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  11. Prehypertension (pre-HTN), similar to hypertension, has been associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to determine whether the Sasang constitution (SC) types could ...

    Authors: Eunsu Jang, Younghwa Baek, Yunyoung Kim, KiHyun Park and Siwoo Lee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:231
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  12. Ethanol extract of propolis (EEP), rich in flavones, has been known for various biological activities including antioxidant, antiinflammatory and antibiotic activities. Our previous studies have shown that EEP...

    Authors: Hua Tian, Hong-Wei Sun, Jia-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Li Zhao, Shou-Dong Guo, Yan-Yan Li, Peng Jiao, Hao Wang, Shu-Cun Qin and Shu-Tong Yao
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:230
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  13. This study identified susceptible loci related to the Yu-Zhi (YZ) constitution, which indicates stasis-stagnation, found in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in patients with type 2 diabetes and possible ...

    Authors: Kuo-Chin Huang, Hung-Jin Huang, Ching-Chu Chen, Chwen-Tzuei Chang, Tzu-Yuan Wang, Rong-Hsing Chen, Yu-Chian Chen and Fuu-Jen Tsai
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:229
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  14. Anticonvulsant properties have been attributed to extracts of the herbal medicine Valeriana officinalis. Our aims were to examine the anticonvulsant properties of valerenic acid and valerian extracts and to deter...

    Authors: Bianca A. Torres-Hernández, Lisa M. Del Valle-Mojica and José G. Ortíz
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:228
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  15. Many studies have demonstrated that repeated injections of nicotine can produce progressive increases in locomotor activity and enhanced expression of c-fos and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in brain dopaminergic are...

    Authors: Minsook Ye, Hyunju Lee, Hyunsu Bae, Dae-Hyun Hahm, Hye-Jung Lee and Insop Shim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:227
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  16. Portulaca oleracea (PO) has been widely used as traditional medicine because of its pharmacological activities. However, the effects of PO on osteoclasts that modulate bone homeostasis are still elusive.

    Authors: Munkhsoyol Erkhembaatar, Eun-Joo Choi, Hak-Yong Lee, Choong Hun Lee, Young-Rae Lee and Min Seuk Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:226
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  17. For a long time, honey was purportedly helpful to prevent drunkenness and relieve hangover symptoms. However, few of the assertions have experienced scientific assessment. The present study examined the effect...

    Authors: Peiying Shi, Bing Chen, Conghai Chen, Jingyang Xu, Zhenhuang Shen, Xiaoqing Miao and Hong Yao
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:225
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  18. Recently, we reported that the crude fractions and pure triterpenes; ursolic acid (C1), 27-E and 27-Z p-coumaric esters of ursolic acid (C2, C3), together with a new triterpene 2,3-seco-taraxer-14-en-2,3-lactone ...

    Authors: Olubunmi Adenike Omoyeni, Ahmed Hussein, Mervin Meyer, Ivan Green and Emmanuel Iwuoha
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:224
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  19. Osteopathic medicine is based on a diagnostic and therapeutic system to treat tissue mobility/ motility dysfunctions in general, using different approaches (depending on the target tissue) known as osteopathic...

    Authors: Wagner Rodrigues Martins, Leonardo Rios Diniz, Juscelino Castro Blasczyk, Karina Ferreira Lagoa, Sérgio Thomaz, Marcia Elisabeth Rodrigues, Ricardo Jacó de Oliveira and Ana Clara Bonini-Rocha
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:223
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  20. The objectives of this pilot study were to examine the association between hypertension and physical factors of wrist pulse waves to avoid subjective diagnoses in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Traditi...

    Authors: Bum Ju Lee, Young Ju Jeon, Boncho Ku, Jaeuk U. Kim, Jang-Han Bae and Jong Yeol Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:222
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  21. The aim of this study was to find the prevalence of potential drug-herb interactions in patients with chronic diseases and identify factors associated with these interactions if present.

    Authors: Rowa’ Al-Ramahi, Nidal Jaradat, Ruba Shalalfeh, Sojoud Nasir, Yazan Manasra, Ihab Shalalfeh and Yasmen Esam
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:221
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  22. Opuntia dillenii is an invasive plant well established in the harsh South-Eastern arid zone of Sri Lanka. Evidence suggests it is likely that the endophytic fungal populations of O. dillenii assist the host in ov...

    Authors: Pamoda B. Ratnaweera, E. Dilip de Silva, David E. Williams and Raymond J. Andersen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:220
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  23. Preparations from anthroposophical medicine (AM) are clinically used to treat inflammatory disorders. We wanted to investigate effects of a selection of AM medications for parenteral use in cell-based systems in ...

    Authors: Carsten Gründemann, Christoph Diegel, Barbara Sauer, Manuel Garcia-Käufer and Roman Huber
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:219
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  24. In traditional medicine, there has been a great deal of research on the effects exhibited by medicinal materials. To study the effects, resources that can systematically describe the chemical compounds in medi...

    Authors: Sang-Kyun Kim, SeJin Nam, Hyunchul Jang, Anna Kim and Jeong-Ju Lee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:218
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  25. Tendinopathies are tendon conditions associated with degeneration and disorganization of the matrix collagen fibers, tendon cells apoptosis and inflammation through up-regulation of proinflammatory cytokines, ...

    Authors: Catherine Baugé, Sylvain Leclercq, Thierry Conrozier and Karim Boumediene
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:217
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  26. Cordyceps taii, an entomogenous fungus native to south China, is a folk medicine with varieties of pharmacological activities including anticancer effect. To validate the ethnopharmacological claim against cancer...

    Authors: Ru-Ming Liu, Xiao-Jie Zhang, Gui-You Liang, Yong-Fu Yang, Jian-Jiang Zhong and Jian-Hui Xiao
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:216
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:284

  27. Use of Carica papaya leaf extracts, reported to improve thrombocyte counts in dengue patients, demands further analysis on the underlying mechanism of its thrombopoietic cytokines induction

    Authors: Jazli Aziz, Noor Lide Abu Kassim, Noor Hayaty Abu Kasim, Nazmul Haque and Mohammad Tariqur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:215
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  28. Gastric peptic ulcer is one of the common disorders of gastrointestinal tract, which occur due to an imbalance between the offensive and defensive factors. It is an illness that affects a considerable number o...

    Authors: Gilbert Ateufack, Elisabeth Carol Domgnim Mokam, Marius Mbiantcha, Rostand Breuil Dongmo Feudjio, Nana David and Albert Kamanyi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:214
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  29. Ampelopsis Radix has been used as a traditional Korean medicine for the treatment of burns and scalds. However, there has been no scientific research to date on the wound healing properties of Ampelopsis Radix...

    Authors: Kyungjin Lee, Byonghee Lee, Mi-Hwa Lee, Bumjung Kim, Khanita Suman Chinannai, Inhye Ham and Ho-Young Choi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:213
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  30. A major challenge in pancreatic cancer treatment is the resistance of human pancreatic cancer cells to apoptosis. Soy isoflavones and calpain inhibition have been suggested to exert inhibitory effects on cance...

    Authors: Juliane Rothe, Michael Wakileh, Katrin Dreißiger and Heike Weber
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:212
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  31. Being a part of Chinese as well as ayurdic herbal system, roots of Rumex hastatus D. Don (RH) is highly medicinal, used to regulated blood pressure. It is also reported that the plant is diuretic, laxative, tonic...

    Authors: Sumaira Sahreen, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Rahmat Ali Khan and Taibi Ben Hadda
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:211
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  32. Repeated injection of corticosterone (CORT) induces dysregulation in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in depression. We examined the effects of Angelica gigas extract (AGN) treatment in a ...

    Authors: Bombi Lee, Bongjun Sur, Insop Shim, Hyejung Lee and Dae-Hyun Hahm
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:210
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  33. As we known, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) helps to prevent the relapse of drug addiction. However, the scientific basis of TCM remains unclear because of limitations of current reductionist approaches. W...

    Authors: Meimei Cai, Zhiyang Su, Hong Zou, Qin Zhang, Jianying Shen, Lingyuan Zhang, Teng Wang, Zhaoyang Yang and Candong Li
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:209
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  34. Plants rich in flavonoids, such as açaí (Euterpe oleraceae Mart.), can induce antinociception in experimental animals. Here, we tested an extract obtained from the stones of açaí fruits (açaí stone extract, ASE),...

    Authors: Roberto T. Sudo, Miguel L. Neto, Carlos E.S. Monteiro, Rachel V. Amaral, Ângela C. Resende, Pergentino J.C. Souza, Gisele Zapata-Sudo and Roberto S. Moura
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:208
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  35. Chansu is a transitional Chinese medicine that has been used for centuries as therapy for inflammation, anaesthesia and arrhythmia in China and other Asian countries. Recently, it has also been used for anti-c...

    Authors: Chun Li, Saeed M. Hashimi, Siyu Cao, Ji Qi, David Good, Wei Duan and Ming Q. Wei
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:207
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  36. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is becoming a serious problem worldwide. The discovery of new and effective antimicrobials and/or resistance modulators is necessary to tackle the spread of resistance or to...

    Authors: Aimé G. Fankam, Jules R. Kuiate and Victor Kuete
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:206
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  37. Brewers’ rice, is locally known as temukut, is a mixture of broken rice, rice bran, and rice germ. The current study is an extension of our previous work, which demonstrated that water extract of brewers’ rice (W...

    Authors: Bee Ling Tan, Mohd Esa Norhaizan, Ky Huynh, Sulaiman Rahman Heshu, Swee Keong Yeap, Hamzah Hazilawati and Karim Roselina
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:205
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  38. Diabetes mellitus with the successive generation of reactive oxygen species signifies a major risk factor for testicular dysfunction. Antioxidant supplements are one of the best options to prevent such disorde...

    Authors: Amal J. Fatani, Salim S. Al-Rejaie, Hatem M. Abuohashish, Abdullah Al-Assaf, Mihir Y. Parmar and Mohammed M. Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:204
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  39. Dermal wound healing involves a cascade of complex events including angiogenesis and extracellular matrix remodeling. Several groups have focused in the study of the skin wound healing activity of natural prod...

    Authors: Jamila Alessandra Perini, Thais Angeli-Gamba, Jessica Alessandra-Perini, Luiz Claudio Ferreira, Luiz Eurico Nasciutti and Daniel Escorsim Machado
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:203
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  40. Four traditional Korean medicinal herbs which act in retarding the aging process, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb., Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn) Libosch., Polygala tenuifolia Willd., and Acorus gramineus Soland., wer...

    Authors: Sung Min Ahn, Yu Ri Kim, Ha Neui Kim, Young Whan Choi, Jae Won Lee, Cheol Min Kim, Jin Ung Baek, Hwa Kyoung Shin and Byung Tae Choi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:202
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:276

  41. Hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation is activated mainly by endotoxin and transforming growth factor (TGF-β1) in chronic liver injury, consequently, can be important therapeutic targets. Xia-yu-xue decoction...

    Authors: Cheng Liu, Xia Yuan, Le Tao, Zhuoan Cheng, Xiuqin Dai, Xia Sheng and Dongying Xue
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2015 15:201
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  42. Can the application of local anesthetics (Neural Therapy, NT) alone durably improve pain symptoms in referred patients with chronic and refractory pain?

    Authors: Simon Egli, Mirjam Pfister, Sabina M. Ludin, Katia Puente de la Vega, André Busato and Lorenz Fischer
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:200
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  43. Lactuca sativa (lettuce) has been traditionally used for relieving pain, inflammation, stomach problems including indigestion and lack of appetite. Moreover, the therapeutic significance of L. sativa includes its...

    Authors: Hammad Ismail and Bushra Mirza
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:199
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  44. The goal of this study is to determine if Rhodiola Crenulata (RC) has protective effects on mice hearts with severe sleep apnea model.

    Authors: Mei-Chih Lai, Jaung-Geng Lin, Pei-Ying Pai, Mei-Hsin Lai, Yueh-Min Lin, Yu-Lan Yeh, Shiu-Min Cheng, Yi-fan Liu, Chih-Yang Huang and Shin-Da Lee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:198
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  45. Annona vepretorum Mart. (Annonaceae) is a native tree from Caatinga (Brazilian Northeastern savanna biome), popularly known as “araticum” and “pinha da Caatinga”. In this study, we investigated the effects of the...

    Authors: Juliane C Silva, Camila de S Araújo, Sarah Raquel G de Lima-Saraiva, Raimundo G de Oliveira-Junior, Tâmara C Diniz, Carlos Wagner de S Wanderley, Raimundo C Palheta-Júnior, Rosemairy L Mendes, Adriana G Guimarães, Lucindo J Quintans-Júnior and Jackson Roberto G da S Almeida
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:197
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  46. Ixeris dentata Nakai has been used for the treatment of mithridatism, calculous, indigestion, pneumonia, hepatitis, and tumors in Korea, China, and Japan. However, the effect of a water extract of Ixeris dentata ...

    Authors: Yong-Deok Jeon, Ji-Ye Kee, Dae-Seung Kim, Yo-Han Han, Sung-Hoon Kim, Su-Jin Kim, Jae-Young Um and Seung-Heon Hong
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:196
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  47. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressively developing neurodegenerative disorder of the brain in the elderly people. Vanda roxburghii Rbr. root has been used traditionally in Bangladesh as tonic to brain and in ...

    Authors: Md. Nasim Uddin, Rejina Afrin, Md. Josim Uddin, Md. Jalal Uddin, A. H. M. K. Alam, Aziz Abdur Rahman and Golam Sadik
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:195
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  48. The green tea catechin epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) was shown to effectively inhibit tumor growth in various types of cancer including biliary tract cancer (BTC). For most BTC patients only palliative thera...

    Authors: Christian Mayr, Andrej Wagner, Daniel Neureiter, Martin Pichler, Martin Jakab, Romana Illig, Frieder Berr and Tobias Kiesslich
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:194
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  49. Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease caused by several factors such as viral infection, drugs, and diagnostic endoscopy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential protective or therapeutic e...

    Authors: Abdulrahman L. Al-Malki
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:193
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  50. Numerous surveys of medicinal plant use among college students abound, but none compare use between students enrolled in two different Universities with significantly different ethnic compositions. The objecti...

    Authors: Rachel Craft, Katrina C. McClure, Steven Corbett, Maria Pontes Ferreira, Ashley M. Stiffarm and Kelly Kindscher
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:192
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