Certain Animal Poisons

Animal and plant poisons and their antidotes in Eseka and Mbalmayo regions, Centre Province, Cameroon.

This work reports 16 plant and 7 animal species which produce poisons and 13 plant and 1 animal species, which produce antidotes, recorded in two divisions of Centre Province, Cameroon.

Cholera and Fever Poisons

Animal poisons and the nervous system: what the neurologist needs to know.

Correspondence to: Professor J B Harris, School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he vast majority of us experience trivial and sometimes inconvenient bites and stings, but we never imagine that the next bite or sting might precipitate a medical emergency. Similarly, we ...

Dehydropeptidase activity in certain animal and plant tissues.

In 1932, Bergmann and Schleich (1) observed that glycerol extracts of swine kidney and pancreas possess the capacity of hydrolyzing glycyldehydrophenylalanine (glycyl-cr-aminophenylacrylic acid) to glycine, ammonia, and phenylpyruvic acid. To the enzyme system responsible, whose distinction from dipeptidase, carboxypeptidase, and aminopeptidase was demonstrated, they gave the designation of deh...

Advocacy for identifying certain animal diseases as “neglected”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect almost 1,000,000,000 people in 149 countries (http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/ diseases/en/). Most are small family farmers living in the least-developed countries where health systems are often inadequate, and climate conditions are favourable to infectious and parasitic diseases. These diseases h...