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Treatment of human hepatocytes with farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonists resulted in increased expression of FGF-19. Methods of using FXR agonists to alter cell metabolism, and in pharmaceutical weight loss methods, are described.

An invention relating to therapeutic pharmacological agents and methods to chemically induce intracellular hyperthermia and / or free radicals for the diagnosis and treatment of infections, malignancy and other medical conditions. The invention relates to a process and composition for the diagnosis or killing of cancer cells and inactivation of susceptible bacterial, parasitic, fungal, and viral pathogens by chemically generating heat, and / or free radicals and / or hyperthermia-inducible immunogenic determinants by using mitochondrial uncoupling agents, especially 2,4 dinitrophenol and, their conjugates, either alone or in combination with other drugs, hormones, cytokines and radiation.

A height adjustable work surface system having an under-mount mechanism pivotably attached at a first end to a mounting bracket for mounting to a secure structure; the under-mount mechanism being further pivotably attached at a second end to an attachment bracket; the attachment bracket further connected to a work surface support designed to connect to a work surface; and by pivoting the under-mount mechanism from a first to a second position the work surface is raised or lowered.

The present invention relates to compositions for weight management comprising: a) a microbiome modifying component; b) a satiety modifying component; and c) a metabolic modifying component. The composition may also be used for the treatment of obesity, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension or heart disease.

The present invention relates to weight control, control of body fat and food intake, and provides useful methods for treating, inter alia, obesity, diabetes and insulin insensitivity, and conditions, diseases, and disorders relating thereto. The invention also relates to methods of identifying useful compounds relating to weight loss, food intake, diabetes, and obesity, among other things, based on the discovery that inhibiting Kv1.3 activity mediates decreased food intake, weight loss, decreased body fat, increase glucose uptake, and increased insulin sensitivity, among other things.

The invention discloses a weight-loss health-care food which is prepared from the main raw materials of, by weight, 1-60% of a white kidney bean extract, 1-50% of L-malic acid, 1-65% of L-carnitine tartrate, and 1-40% of konjac powder. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the weight-loss health-care food. The method comprises the step that: the main materials of the white kidney bean extract, L-malic acid, L-carnitine tartrate, and konjac powder are well mixed, such that the health-care food with weight-loss function is obtained. With the health-care food, starchy substance absorption is inhibited, body metabolism is promoted, and energy conversion is promoted, such that fat consumption is increased, fat formation is prevented, and a weight-loss function is achieved. With the preparation method, absorption of nutrients such as proteins and vitamins is not influenced, diet control is not needed, and weight can be naturally controlled and reduced. The preparation method provided by the invention has the advantages of simple process, no high-temperature operation, convenient operation, and energy saving.

A height adjustable work surface system having an under-mount mechanism pivotably attached at a first end to a mounting bracket for mounting to a secure structure; the under-mount mechanism being further pivotably attached at a second end to an attachment bracket; the attachment bracket further connected to a work surface support designed to connect to a work surface; and by pivoting the under-mount mechanism from a first to a second position the work surface is raised or lowered.

The invention discloses a functional nutritional good composition for improving sub-health and a preparation method thereof. Edible and medicinal raw materials such as aloe, licorice root, chrysanthemum flower, green tea, semen cassiae, lotus leaf, fructus crataegi, radix angelicae, white hyacinth bean, lilium brownii, mint, red bean, clove, sword bean and seville orange flower are combined with the modern nutrients such as L-carnitine, methionine, fructo-oligose, fructose, medium chain triglyceride grease powder, protein, vitamins and mineral substances to prepare four types of products. The four types of products are matched with one another in use and can be used for replenishing various nutritional ingredients required by the human body so as to realize the aims of repairing cells, activating the immunity and improving the sub-health.

The invention discloses a production method for an organic fertilizer. The production method can be used for mixing excrements of herbivore animals and plasters or plant ashes and coal ashes which are obtained by combusting lime sludge of a sugar factory or manioc waste and bagasse of a starch factory and quickly converting organic waste into available organic fertilizers by a zymophyte ecological method. According to the method provided by the invention, the stack fertilizer preparing time can be shortened, and the labor and the time can be saved. By using the organic fertilizer produced by the method, a perfect root environment can be constructed, so that rot diseases can be avoided; plants can fully realize the functions of absorbing the fertilizers, and crops can quickly grow up; the physical property and the chemical property as well as the microbial state of the soil are thoroughly balanced, so that the soil can be forever kept in an optical state for culturing crops. The organic fertilizer produced by the invention can be mixed with other trace elements, a plant growth promoter, chemical fertilizers and the like to prepare a composite fertilizer. Beneficial microflora can be added for further treatment; the non-toxic and harmless microorganism fertilizer can be compounded.

Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4). The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding fibroblast growth factor receptor 4. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 are provided.

The invention discloses a method for preparing shiitake bioactive peptide. The method specifically comprises the following steps that (1) distilled water with the weight 6-12 times that of shiitake foot powder is added to the shiitake foot powder and the shiitake foot powder is dissolved; (2) ultrasonic disruption is conducted, 100 thousand to 200 thousand international units of cellulase are added to per kilogram of the shiitake foot powder, the pH value is adjusted to be 4.0 to 5.0, the temperature is adjusted to be 40 DEG C to 50 DEG C, and hydrolyzing lasts for 60 min to 120 min; (3) the shiitake foot powder solution is cooled to the indoor temperature, the pH value of the shiitake foot powder solution is adjusted to be 9.5 to 10.5 by sodium hydroxide, cold bath extraction is conducted for 20 min to 40 min at the temperature of 5 DEG C to 15 DEG C, supernate is extracted in a centrifugal mode, pressure reduction concentration is conducted, absolute ethyl alcohol is added until the concentration reaches 83% to 85%, standing is conducted for 60 min to 90 min at the temperature of 4 DEG C, centrifugation is conducted, precipitate is collected, and shiitake protein is obtained after drying; (4) the shiitake protein is dissolved in distilled water with the weight 40-60 times that of the shiitake protein, the pH value is adjusted to be 6.0 to 7.0, 0.2%-0.4% compound protease is added for hydrolysis, the temperature ranges from 45 DEG C to 55 DEG C, hydrolysis is conducted for 150 min to 200 min, enzyme deactivation is conducted, centrifugation is conducted, and filtrate is collected; (5) microfiltration is conducted through a filtering film of 0.22 micron, ultrafiltration is also conducted, peptide fragments with relative molecular mass ranging from 5 KD to 10 KD are collected, vacuum freeze drying is conducted, and therefore brown freeze-dried powder of the shiitake bioactive peptide is obtained. The prepared shiitake bioactive peptide has the good antioxidant activity in vitro and sobering activity.

The present invention features compositions and methods for suppressing appetite. The compositions of the invention are composed of a dietary fiber and a combination of selected herbal extracts, at least one of which is capable of inhibiting gastric emptying and one which increases metabolic rate.

The invention relates to a medication composition and a process for preparation the invention which is for improving cerebral cognitive function disorder, preventing and curing senile dementia. The medication composition of the invention is composed of curcuma, ginkgo leaf and thinleaf milkwort root-bark which are prepared by the techniques of weighting, drying, crashing, marinating, poaching, ethanol extracting, condensing, merging and the like. The medication composition of the invention has the effects of opening the key to the mind, refreshing the brain, nourishing heart, invigorating the circulation of blood, recuperating yin and yang, and resisting senescence, which is capable of improving study memorizing ability, and overcoming cerebral cognitive function disorder, thereby preventing and curing senile dementia.

The invention pertains to the technical field of treatment of waste water, and particularly relates to a method of hydrolysis-catalytic iron-aerobic coupling for treating poisonous and harmful hard-degradation waste water, which comprises the following steps: waste water after primary treatment directly enters an up flow type hydrolysis system 1 and stays for 4.0-10.0 hours; the effluent enters an electrolytic cell in the catalytic iron; the mass ratio of iron scraps and copper scraps in the electrolytic cell of the catalytic iron is 1:1 to 20:1, the bulk specific weight thereof is 0.1 to 0.3, the contact time thereof in a filling area is 0.5 to 2.0 hours, and the reflux ratio of the effluent refluxing to the up flow type hydrolysis system is 20 to 100 percent; the effluent enters an aerobic biological treatment system and stays for 6.0 to 12.0 hours; then the effluent enters a solid-liquid separation system with a reflux ratio of sludge being 10 to 50 percent; and the effluent of the solid-liquid separation system refluxes to the electrolytic cell of the catalytic iron with the reflux ratio being 20 to 200 percent. Under the premise of fully playing the function of different treatment units and maintaining the treatment effect and respective advantages, the treatment method of waste water realizes the coupling synergetic action of the three units, strengthens the impact of the system to water quality and water quantity load, reduces a plurality of steps of pretreatment, effectively improves the removal rate of ammonia nitrogen, and can be flexibly adjusted.

The present invention provides a method and device for non-invasive anatomical and systemic cooling, fluid removal and / or energy removal. The present invention provides for removal of fluid and cooling of various bodily fluid-containing spaces or surfaces, such as mucus-containing spaces or surfaces via delivery of a dry fluid not including a coolant into or upon the mucus-containing space or surface. Exposure of mucus to the dry fluid yields evaporation of body fluid, removal of energy, cooling of the anatomical feature, and systemic cooling. Therefore, therapeutic hypothermia may be achieved for neuroprotection of various organs after ischemic insult, like the brain after cardiac arrest. Similarly, excess fluid removal is achievable for treatment of cardiogenic shock or other conditions that cause significant fluid build-up, especially in cases of compromised renal function. Additionally, the invention may be used to reduce fever, and other conditions where removal of heat, energy and / or water are beneficial.

A method for treating the disease state in mammals caused by mammalian cells involved in the inflammatory response is disclosed. Mammalian cells participating in the inflammatory response are contacted with an inflammatory suppressor selected from the group consisting of alpha-keto acids and their salts which reduce the undesired inflammatory response and is an antioxidant. The inflammatory suppressor may further provide a cellular energy source and be a building block in the cellular synthesis of other cellular components. Compositions for reducing and treating undesired inflammatory response such as pain, swelling, erythema, crusting, scarring, itching, also disclosed.

Methods are disclosed of the increasing resting metabolic rate of a subject comprising administering a composition comprising a mixture of reduced species and reactive oxygen species, wherein the mixture of reduced species and reactive oxygen species increases the resting metabolic rate of the subject. The reactive oxygen species can comprises at least one superoxide The process of making the composition comprises the steps of purifying water to produce ultra-pure water, combining sodium chloride to the ultra-pure water to create salinated water, and electrolyzing the salinated water at a temperature of about 4.5° C. to about 5.8° C. The electrolyzing is accomplished with an anode, a cathode and a power source. The power source comprises a transformer and a rectifier and does not comprise a filter capacitor. The method can also include contacting at least one cell of the subject with the composition.

The invention discloses functional nutritional blend oil and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of healthy blend oil. The functional nutritional blend oil is formed by blending the following components in percentage by weight: 50 to 92 percent of rice oil serving as a main raw material, 8 to 50 percent of one or more other edible vegetable oils, 0.5 to 1.2 percent of octacosanol, and 0.6 to 1 percent of resveratrol. The other edible vegetable oils are one or more of safflower seed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, olive oil, linseed oil, sunflower seed oil and peanut oil. The invention solves the problems that the conventional edible oil is single in nutrient and unbalanced in content and lacks functional components, and provides the edible vegetable blend oil which is in accordance with an optimal proportion of multiple unsaturated fatty acids such as omega-6 (linoleic acid) and omega-3 (linolenic acid) recommended by Chinese Society of Nutrition and is functional and stable.

The invention discloses a preparation method of copper chloride hydroxide. The method comprises the following steps: adding copper hydroxide slurry in copper chloride solution according to a ratio of 2.5-3.5:1, reacting under the condition that the temperature is 80-160 DEG C, the pH value is 4-9 and the pressure is 0-600kPa, obtaining the reaction product after the reaction; and rinsing, centrifuging and drying the reaction product to obtain copper chloride hydroxide. The method of the invention has simple and safe operation, less waste discharge, lower production cost, more complete resource utilization and less environmental pollution.

The invention provides a lactogenic feed additive for sows and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of feed additives. The lactogenic feed additive for the sows consists of the following components in part by weight: 0.1 to 0.3 part of organic chromium, 0.1 to 0.3 part of organic selenium, 30 to 50 parts of vitamin E, 0.4 to 0.8 part of folic acid, 0.01 to 0.1 part of biotin, 5 to 10 parts of L-carnitine, 20 to 40 parts of potassium chloride, 60 to 80 parts of tangerine peel, 10 to 30 parts of atractylodes lancea, 10 to 30 parts of astragalus, 20 to 40 parts of honeysuckle, 20 to 40 parts of hawthorn, and 200 to 300 parts of carrier. The metabolism of the sows is improved through the vitamin and the minerals, Chinese medicines have effects of clearing heat and releasing toxin, regulating intestinal tract, and regulating vital energy and activating blood, and the aims of protecting health, promoting milk secretion and improving the productivity of the sows are fulfilled by combining the vitamin, the minerals and the Chinese herbal medicines. The lactogenic feed additive has an obvious effect, and is lower in cost due to reasonable combination of the vitamin, the minerals and the Chinese herbal medicines.

The present invention discloses a preparation method of health care tea oil, and most of unnecessary components and harmful ingredients of the prepared health care tea oil are filtered by low-temperature oil squeezing, alkali refining, water washing, decoloration, deodorization, secondary decoloration, freezing and extraction for comprehensive treatment. The prepared health care tea oil also contains monounsaturated fatty acids, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E, polyphenols and flavonoids, and other a lot of highly active substances, has health effects, and is especially suitable for pregnant women, children and middle and old age people to consume.

The invention discloses a method for selectively activating main beneficial bacteria in an oil deposit and keeping high concentration. In the method, through continuous and alternate injection of different selective nutrient solution slugs and addition of auxiliary emulsifying bacteria and composite nutrients into the different slugs, microbial activations and crude oil acting effects in different stages are intensified. The auxiliary bacteria promote hydrocarbon oxidizing bacteria to emulsify crude oil ahead of time, and the composite nutrients increase the growth rates and the metabolite concentrations of fermenting bacteria and methanogenses, so that oil / water interfacial properties are improved, the swept volume of an injected fluid is increased, and further the crude oil recovering rate is improved; in the method, growth and metabolism data of the main oil recovering florae under the condition of different optimal formulae and the injection amounts of different main nutrient solution slugs are provided, and a proper oil deposit condition and the minimum scale are provided; the method is applied to Dongxin oilfield on site, and application results show that the method has a relatively good effect of controlling the number of microbes and the metabolite concentration, and has significant staged oil increasing and water reducing effects.

An artificial inducement method for spawning and breeding erythroculter ilishaeformis relates to an artificial inducement method for spawning and breeding fish. The method solves the problems of a low hatching rate and a low post-natal survival rate in the existing artificial reproduction method of the erythroculter ilishaeformis. The breeding method comprises the following steps: 1. culturing parent fish in a culture pond; 2. injecting an aphrodisiac agent into the parent fish twice so that the parent fish autogenously spawns; 3. transferring the fish eggs into a hatching barrel for hatching; and 4. transferring fish fry into an outdoor pond after opening an inflatable intestinal canal of a fish maw so as to culture young fishes. The artificial inducement method for spawning and breeding of the erythroculter ilishaeformis can help shorten a breeding period, greatly improve the survival rate and the hatching rate of the parent fish, and obviously improve the economic benefit.

The invention relates to a biological straw feed preparation method. The biological straw feed preparation method includes the following steps that 1, crushing is performed: a straw material is smashed by using a smashing machine; 2, pretreatment is performed: the smashed straw material obtained in the step 2 is pretreated, wherein the adopted temperature is 90-130 DEG C, a treating agent is dilute sulfuric acid, peracetic acid, a sodium hydroxide solution or quick lime, and the solid-liquid ratio is 1:10; 3, enzymolysis is performed: the straw material treated in the step 2 is cleaned with distilled water, is dried and then is put into a table for enzymolysis, wherein used enzyme is cellulase and xylanase, the temperature is 30-60 DEG C, the PH is 4-7, the enzyme adding amount is 200-350 u / g, the solid-liquid ratio is 1:10-1:7, and the rotating speed of the table is 100-160 rpm; 4, a biological straw feed is obtained through drying. The biological straw feed can replace or partly replace the corn in a traditional basic diet and plays a positive promoting role on feed digestion.

The invention relates to a method for quickly starting an anaerobic ammoxidation reactor, belonging to the field of anaerobic ammoxidation reaction. The method comprises the following step: by using activated sludge as a seed sludge and artificially simulated nitrogenous waste water as a culture solution, continuously operating the reactor for at least 50 days, wherein the artificially simulated nitrogenous waste water is composed of 30-60 mg / L ammonia nitrogen, 30-60 mg / L nitrite nitrogen, 125 mg / L potassium bicarbonate, 54 mg / L potassium dihydrogen phosphate and 0.5-5 mg / L ferrous sulfate. The method is simple to operate and easy to implement, has the advantages of no need of any additional energy consumption and abundant iron element sources, and thus, is a practical efficient environment-friendly microbial enrichment technique.

The invention aims to provide a women care and nourishing beverage. The women care and nourishing beverage is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 5-20 parts of culture of saussurea involucrate, 500-700 parts of collagen, 5-20 parts of tremella polysaccharide, 20-40 parts of lychee juice concentrate and 20-40 parts of apple juice concentrate. The culture of saussurea involucrate is warm in nature, has menstrual flow stimulating and blood activating effects, is rich in effective active ingredients such as flavone, and has anti-oxidation, immune adjustment and skin aging delay effects and the like; the collagen can provide more effective peptides and can restore the elasticity of the skin; the tremella polysaccharide has the functions of relaxing bowels, building body, reducing weight, beautifying and skin moistening functions; the lychee juice concentrate has the effects of tonifying spleen, benefiting liver, regulating vital energy and replenishing blood; the apple juice concentrate has the effects of nourishing the skin, moistening, removing freckles and removing acnes. The formula makes the focal points stand out, complements each other, helps each other forward, is rational, gives consideration to the aspects of qi nourishing, blood nourishing, beautifying and the like, and completely solves the problem of stagnation of qi and blood of women and the skin problem.

The invention provides a preparation method and application of iron-containing sludge-based biochar, which comprises the following steps: pouring excess sludge, as a raw material, generated by an urban sewage treatment plant into a 1 g / L FeCl3 solution to flocculate and adsorb trivalent iron salt, dehydrating the sludge to obtain iron-containing sludge; and putting the iron-containing sludge intoa tubular furnace, firing for 2 hours at 600 DEG C under the condition of nitrogen blowing to obtain a sample, namely the iron-containing sludge-based biochar. Results show that at 600 DEG C, ferric iron adsorbed by the sludge is converted into ferroferric oxide, so that the electrical conductivity of the biochar is improved; meanwhile, functional groups on the surface of the biochar are reservedat the temperature, so that the iron-containing sludge-based biochar has good charge-discharge performance. The iron-containing sludge-based biochar is added into an anaerobic reactor, so that the removal rate of organic matters and the yield of methane can be remarkably increased.

The invention relates to a composite biological agent for moderate temperature biogas fermentation high content volatile fatty acid in pig manure waste and a preparation method thereof. The compositebiological agent is prepared from methanogen, moderate temperature syntrophism acetate oxidized bacteria, moderate temperature syntrophism propionate oxidized bacteria, moderate temperature syntrophism butyric acid oxidized bacteria, trace element and vitamin. The composite biological agent enables an acidifying biogas fermentation system using pig manure as a raw material to rapidly and effectively recover to produce biogas normally and to run continuously and stably. The invention further provides the preparation method of the composite biological agent. According to the method, raw materials pig manure inoculant and pig manure are optimized and enriched in a culture medium under anaerobic condition at 37DEG C by increasing sodium acetate, sodium propionate and sodium butyrate level by level, then are concentrated, ammonium chloride, magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, yeast powder, sodium acetate, sodium propionate and sodium butyrate are added, then the productis packaged and preserved at low temperature so as to prepare a liquid composite biological agent. Further, the liquid composite biological agent can be mixed with auxiliary materials and then is dried under the anaerobic condition at 37DEG C so as to prepare the solid composite biological agent.