The use of Salvia haenkei extract is described as a re-epithelizing and cicatrizing agent in the treatment of tissue lesions. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising Salvia haenkei extract and suitable pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for use in the treatment of tissue lesions are also disclosed.

The use of Salvia haenkei extract is described as a re-epithelizing and cicatrizing agent in the treatment of tissue lesions. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising Salvia haenkei extract and suitable pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for use in the treatment of tissue lesions are also disclosed.

An object is to provide an external composition for skin capable of easily enhancing body balance ability even for ordinary people such as housewives, students, middle-aged and mature-aged males and females, and elderly persons who do not aggressively exercise on a routine basis other than athletes. The object has been solved by an external composition for skin including a rhodochrosite extract extracted from rhodochrosite with water, a hematite extract extracted from hematite with water, a smithsonite extract extracted from smithsonite with water, and an olivine extract extracted from olivine with water, and the like.

An object is to provide an external composition for skin capable of easily enhancing body balance ability even for ordinary people such as housewives, students, middle-aged and mature-aged males and females, and elderly persons who do not aggressively exercise on a routine basis other than athletes. The object has been solved by an external composition for skin including a rhodochrosite extract extracted from rhodochrosite with water, a hematite extract extracted from hematite with water, a smithsonite extract extracted from smithsonite with water, and an olivine extract extracted from olivine with water, and the like.

The present invention provides methods of improve efficiency, growth, and performance in an animal by orally administering to the animal an effective amount of a therapeutic clay. The methods can reduce embryonic loss, increase litter size, increase the number of live births, improve the immune status of the maternal animal, reduce the concentration of maternal fecal amino acids, reduce the concentration of maternal fecal short-chained amino acid, increasing litter birth weight in the maternal animal, increase the amount of young animal colostrum intake, reduce young animal pre-weaning mortality, reduce the number of young animals lost due to low viability, reduce the number of weaned young animals, improve the immune status of young animals at weaning, reduce the number of lightweight young animals from nursery to market, increase the number of young animals marketed per sow, and increase calculated litter weight gain.

The present invention provides methods of improve efficiency, growth, and performance in an animal by orally administering to the animal an effective amount of a therapeutic clay. The methods can reduce embryonic loss, increase litter size, increase the number of live births, improve the immune status of the maternal animal, reduce the concentration of maternal fecal amino acids, reduce the concentration of maternal fecal short-chained amino acid, increasing litter birth weight in the maternal animal, increase the amount of young animal colostrum intake, reduce young animal pre-weaning mortality, reduce the number of young animals lost due to low viability, reduce the number of weaned young animals, improve the immune status of young animals at weaning, reduce the number of lightweight young animals from nursery to market, increase the number of young animals marketed per sow, and increase calculated litter weight gain.

The current application is directed to a method for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), comprising: providing isolated endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs); treating the EPCs with prostacyclin, wherein the treated EPCs exhibit a hyperproliferative phenotype with enhanced angiogenic property; and administering a composition comprising the treated EPCs into a subject suffering from PAH.

The invention contemplates a copolymer which is a graft or block copolymer useful to change wettability and surface characteristics of biological surfaces. Methods for use of these formulations and coatings to change wettability and sterically stabilize, and lubricate biological surfaces in a subject, for example, in the treatment of dry eye syndrome, and to prevent adherence of unwanted proteins, for example in the treatment of contact lens intolerance, are provided.

The invention contemplates a copolymer which is a graft or block copolymer useful to change wettability and surface characteristics of biological surfaces. Methods for use of these formulations and coatings to change wettability and sterically stabilize, and lubricate biological surfaces in a subject, for example, in the treatment of dry eye syndrome, and to prevent adherence of unwanted proteins, for example in the treatment of contact lens intolerance, are provided.

Disclosed are dietary supplement compositions and methods of making the dietary supplements in capsule form. For example, dietary supplement composition having Oryza sativa Linn, Cordyceps militaris, Ardisia polycephala Wall, Smilax corbularia Kunth, Smilax glabra Rhizome, cereal enzymes, Fomes rimosus (Berk.) Cooke, and edible bird's nest are provided.