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    Cachexia/Anorexia and Feeding Difficulties

    Symptoms related to anorexia (loss of appetite), cachexia (muscle loss and wasting) and dysphagia (reduced ability to eat) are devastating for a person with a palliative illness and their families. They are co...

    Meera Agar, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski in Textbook of Palliative Care (2019)

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    Cachexia/Anorexia and Feeding Difficulties

    Symptoms related to anorexia (loss of appetite), cachexia (muscle loss and wasting) and dysphagia (reduced ability to eat) are devastating for a person with a palliative illness and their families. They are co...

    Meera Agar, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski in Textbook of Palliative Care

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    Herbal Medicines for the Management of Diabetes

    Herbal medicines have been used in the management of diabetes in traditional medicine. This chapter reviews recent findings of the most popular herbs reported to treat diabetes through their relevant mechanist...

    George Q. Li, Antony Kam, Ka H. Wong, **an Zhou, Eshaifol A. Omar in Diabetes (2013)

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    Gypenoside XLIX isolated from Gynostemma pentaphyllum inhibits nuclear factor-kappaB activation via a PPAR-alpha-dependent pathway

    Nuclear factor (NF)-κB is important in the generation of inflammation. Besides regulating lipid metabolism, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-α activators also reduce NF-κB activation to termin...

    Tom Hsun-Wei Huang, Yuhao Li in Journal of Biomedical Science (2006)