Priority pharmacogenetics for the African continent: focus on CYP450

Priority pharmacogenetics for the African continent: Focus on Cytochrome P450

Countries in Africa have a high burden of communicable disease, and are experiencing an increase in non-communicable diseases due to the effects of globalization, industrialization and urbanization. The costs incurred through adverse drug reactions and non-responsiveness to therapy further aggravate the situation, and the application of pharmacogenetic principles is likely to provide some relie...

6. Dose Adjustments Based on Pharmacogenetics of CYP450 Enzymes

In today’s medicine, drug therapy represents an important tool to treat or control disease. Dosing drugs is based on the assumption that a particular dose will yield a predefined concentration in the circulation and thereby establish the desired therapeutic effect. The fact that liver and kidney function may affect this relationship is appreciated, as is the fact that the use of co-medication p...

Continent-wide attack launched on African trypanosomiasis.

Surveillance and management of influenza on the African continent.

EVALUATION OF: Yazdanbakhsh M, Kremsner PG. Influenza in Africa. PLoS Med. 6(12), e1000182 (2009). The African continent is burdened with a very heavy load of communicable diseases over and above other severe health problems. Not surprisingly, influenza has received relatively little attention on the continent even though it is, in its own right, a major cause of morbidity and mortality--to a m...

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...