Abstract.With the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) acupuncture and moxibustion, research on acupuncture and moxibustion in the Western world is deepening.The concept of acupuncture and throwing stars moxibustion popular in the West is formed.By investigating the localization of acupuncture and moxibustion in the Western world, this
Abstract Dividing a geographical region into some subregions with common characteristics is an important research topic, and has been studied in many research fields such as urban planning and transportation planning.In this paper, by network analysis approach, we attempt to extract functionally similar regions, each of which consists of functional
Background: Melanocortinergic system represents a known system involved in the central regulation of body weight with the central proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons forming a potent anorexigenic network.Polymorphisms in the POMC gene locus are associated with obesity phenotypes.Aim: To assess the contribution of the POMC gene 9-bp insertional polym