Mild hypothermia for treatment of diffuse axonal injury: a quantitative DTI...
Mild hypothermia has been shown to exert apparent neuroprotective effects in animal models of diffuse axonal injury.
View ArticleNTS’s role in the protection of pre-moxibustion on gastric mucosal lesions
NTS’s role in the protection of pre-moxibustion on gastric mucosal lesionsMoxibustion may have protective effects on the stomach mucous membrane against stress gastric ulcer.
View ArticleWen Dan Tang improves insomnia-related anxiety
Ghrelin, a brain-gut peptide that induces anxiety and other abnormal emotions, contributes to the effects of insomnia on emotional behavior.
View ArticleEarly rehabilitation improves postsurgery neurofunctional outcome in spinal...
In children, primary spinal tumors comprise 4–8% of all tumors from the central nervous system.
View ArticleHow humans learn grammar
Humans might have an inherent cognitive bias toward using semantic hierarchies rather than superficial word-order rules when learning new languages, a study suggests. How humans learn grammar is a...
View ArticleRecognition of complex human facial expressions
According to a study of 21 basic and complex human facial expressions of emotion, individuals may express a broader range of emotions via uniquely identifiable facial expressions than previously...
View ArticleHypoxia in the Baltic Sea
Declining oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea might be primarily due to increased amounts of nutrients entering the sea from the land, according to a study. Deoxygenation of deep sea waters results when...
View ArticlePast climate change and marine carbon dioxide release
Changes in ocean circulation may have contributed to the end of the last ice age, a study finds. Researchers investigating the abrupt endings of Pleistocene glaciation hypothesized that glacial...
View ArticleUniversal syllable preferences in newborns
Newborn brains respond differently to syllables that are frequent across languages than to rare syllables, a study finds, suggesting that linguistic preference for certain syllable types might be a...
View ArticleAlso of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Muscle tissue grown from rat myogenic cells and engineered to mimic the highly organized structure of native muscle tissue, including a functioning stem cell pool, was transplanted into mice, and...
View ArticleAdministering blood transfusions to patients with lower levels of hemoglobin...
Restricting red blood cell (RBC) transfusions among hospitalized patients to those with hemoglobin (the iron-containing protein in RBCs) measures below a certain level is associated with a lower risk...
View ArticleMedication does not help prevent erectile dysfunction following radiation...
Among men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, daily use of the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, compared with placebo, did not prevent loss of erectile function, according to a study...
View ArticleRescue robot, a good helper for earthquake rescue
Three domestic robots, rotor flying robot, transformable rescue robot and robotized life detector, played important roles in Lushan earthquake rescue in 2013, which have provided essential data and...
View ArticleProgress of image registration method based on minimally invasive spinal...
Surgical robot, have gotten fast development. Meanwhile, the accuracy and stability of robot assisted surgery have been widely recognized by medical and industrial circle as well as patients. Shenyang...
View ArticleResearch progress of the Chinese Polar Rover Robot
Considering the requirements of the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition, Shenyang Institute of Automation has developed three generations of polar rover robots, focusing on rover mobility,...
View ArticleNew tree-planting technique for ecological control of desert
Desert drought is generally considered as the major factor that results in the low survival rate and poor growth of seedlings of desert plants. But recent research using desert plant Haloxylon...
View ArticleOptimal distance between two electrode tips during recording of compound...
Optimal distance between two electrode tips during recording of compound nerve action potentials
View ArticlePromising new treatment for age-related macular degeneration
Injections of IL-18, a protein being tested in clinical trials to treat some cancers, helps control the creation of new blood vessels in the eye, and could be a new treatment for age-related macular...
View ArticleResting-state functional connection during low back pain
The default mode network is a key area in the resting state, involving the posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, medial prefrontal and lateral temporal cortices, and is characterized by balanced...
View ArticleUnderground ocean on encedalus captured by cassini
New results from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been among Saturn’s moons for the past 10 years, show that Enceladus -- one of the planet’s smaller moons -- harbors an ocean of water beneath 18 to...
View Article