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Original Research

• Induction of resistance vessel dilation by ginger root juice, possibly through extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation in endothelial cells (1 September, 2013)

  Elizabeth Bird, Dinesh M. Shah
• General medical practice in China: evaluation of urban community health care service functions based on a rough set reduction theory (1 September, 2013)

  Liqing Li, Xiaojun Zhou, Zhongjie Li
• Epidemiology of community pre-hypertensive patients and related risk factors in Chengdu city (1 September, 2013)

  Xinyun Chen, Yafei Yan, Fang Qin, Xiaojing Jiang, Bo Yu, Fang Shang, Jian Liu, Yuelei Wu, Dan Tang, Yuanyuan Yao, Tingjie Zhang
• Performance evaluation indicator system for the implementation of essential drug system in community health service institutions (1 September, 2013)

  Lifang Zhang, Yan Jia, Yanchun Zhang, Ning Wu, Jiangmei Qin
• Optimal incentive mechanism for dual referral based on the analytic hierarchy process (1 September, 2013)

  Guanghe Lei