Medicinal Plants - Old Wine in a New Bottle

Old wine in a new bottle.

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this old wine in a new bottle, how can you bargain with the thing that has many benefits for...

Commentary: Old wine in a new bottle.

One of the striking aspects of the Atkins decision is that the constitutional prohibition appears to be framed in the language of a clinical diagnosis—“mental retardation”—and not in terms of a traditional legal concept, such as competence or responsibility. For this reason, state legislators can be expected to seek the guidance of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the draf...

Thalidomide: an old wine in new bottle.

Thalidomide (α-N-[phthalimido]glutarimide) is a derivative of glutamic acid. It is administered clinically as a 1:1 racaemic mixture of its S and R isomers. It is well-absorbed after oral administration. Maximum plasma level of 1-4 μg/ml is reached within 2-4 hours. It is eliminated by spontaneous hydrolysis to multiple inactive metabolites. It has a half-life of approximately 5 hours. There is...

Familiar Old Wine: Great New Bottle

G6PD--an old bottle with new wine.

The major role of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is to generate reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), which is indispensable to reductive metabolism and maintenance of cellular redox homeostasis. Most advances in this field have been made in the pathophysiology of G6PD-deficient erythrocytes and the molecular characterization of different G6PD variants. Recently...