Doherty Holbrook

Cigarette smoking-related lung injury is one of the most common and fatal etiologies of many respiratory diseases, for which no effective interventions are available. Astragaloside Ⅳ (ASⅣ) is an active component extracted from Astragalus membranaceus. It is prescribed as a treatment for upper respiratory tract infections. Here, we report the pot…[Read more]

Unfractionated heparin (UFH) therapy is monitored by using the anti-Xa activity, or the aPTT, which remains the most widely used assay. One of the main advantages of anti-Xa relies on its hypothesized standardization, with a unique therapeutic range (0.30-0.70 IU/mL) for all reagents, whereas aPTT is influenced by numerous preanalytical and…[Read more]