Salicylic acid: an old dog, new tricks, and staphylococcal disease.

The ECG in acute coronary syndromes: new tricks from an old dog.

The ECG remains the pre-eminent test for myocardial ischaemia, directing therapeutic management and prognostic stratification.

The effect of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid on the symptoms of the disease and the expression of defense genes on a greenhouse cucumber infected with CMV

Cucumber is one of the most important vegetable and summer crops economically and is the fourth most cultivated plant in the world after tomatoes and potatoes. In this study, the effect of plant inducers including salicylic acid and jasmonic acid on the viral disease of greenhouse cucumber with Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and also the expression of defense genes was investigated. Treatments inc...

GCN2, an old dog with new tricks.

Gcn2 was first described in budding yeast as a serine/threonine protein kinase involved in the response to amino acid starvation and this is its best characterized role to date. Recent work has revealed new and exciting roles for Gcn2, which affect many aspects of cellular physiology in response to a number of stresses in addition to starvation. Furthermore, the Gcn2 pathway has been implicated...

Can old dogs learn new tricks?

Many of these old adages can’t be traced back to their origins, but the reference to senior dogs and their learning capacity has a documented origin. The source of these well-worn words is an English gentleman named Fitzherbert who wrote a treatise on animal husbandry in 1523. In the cumbersome vernacular of the times, he said that “the dogge must lerne when he is a whelpe, or els it wyl not be...

The moving target of clopidogrel response variability: new tricks of the old dog?