This study aimed to assess the toxicological profile of aqueous leaf extract S. purpurea (ALES) in Wistar rats. ALES was subjected acute and sub-chronic toxicity studies which were conducted according Lorke’s Organization for Economic Co-operation Development 408 guidelines respectively. The carried out two phases within 48 hours. Sub-chronic (90 days) on 4 groups rats each. first group receive...

Garrod was among the first to recognize the importance of genetics as a determinant of disease. In his Croonian Lecture in 1908, he introduced the term “inborn errors of metabolism”, long before the nature of genes, proteins, and enzymes was understood. Numerous recent articles in Clinical Chemistry have focused on the application of modern mass spectrometry to the analysis of metabolites in pl...

Historical beers are a valuable source of information on past brewing microbiology providing opportunity for analysis and isolation. Although rarely found intact suffering variable degrees deterioration they can contain living microbial cells residues chemical components indicating the character their production processes. This report summarises preliminary two from Victorian Edwardian times pr...

Objective : This study investigated whether the angiotensin II type-1 receptor blocker (ARB) candesartan affects markers of oxidative stress in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with essential hypertension (EH). Methods : Urinary excretion of pyrraline (PR), pentosidine (PT), acrolein (AC), and 8-hydroxy-2′deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG) and microalbuminuria were assessed in patients with DM comp...

The 'disco' or 'electric' clam Ctenoides ales (Limidae) is the only species of bivalve known to have a behaviourally mediated photic display. This display is so vivid that it has been repeatedly confused for bioluminescence, but it is actually the result of scattered light. The flashing occurs on the mantle lip, where electron microscopy revealed two distinct tissue sides: one highly scattering...

Tomas Petrasek*, Iva Prokopova, Martin Sladek, Kamila Weissova, Iveta Vojtechova, Štěpán Bahník, Anna Zemanova, Kai Schonig, Stefan Berger, Bjorn Tews, Dusan Bartsch, Martin E. Schwab, Alena Sumova and Ales Stuchlik* 1 Department of Neurophysiology of Memory, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic 2 First Faculty of Medicine, Charles Universit...

Male predaceous stink bugs (Pentatom idae: A sopinae) in the genus Podisus release longrange a ttrac tan t pherom ones from a pair o f hypertrophied glands opening underneath the wings. Pherom one com positions are reported for four additional Podisus spp.: two N eotropi­ cal species (P. connexivus and an undeterm ined Podisus sp.), and two N earctic species (P. placidus and P. mucronatus). M a...

tinere talente recrutate de profesorul Thoma Ionescu, a cărui intuiţie în alegerea colaboratorilor, viitorilor profesori de chirurgie, şefi de şcoală la rândul lor, nu a dat niciodată greş. Născut la 14 mai 1870 în oraşul Bârlad, acest fiu strălucit al pământului Moldovei, a reuşit prin calităţile sale înnăscute, dar mai ales printr-o muncă ordonată şi neobosită, să făurească o operă nepieritoa...