Athletes, like others, use recreational and lorillicit psychoactive drugs. However, many athletes also use drugs to enhance their training or performance, including an array of bizarre and exotic substances. Although the majority of these substances are not psychoactive, they may be abused by athletes. Some of these substances, such as anabolic steroids and human growth honnone, are referred to...

In addition to the usual amino acids and vitamins, Lactobacilus delbrekii strain 730 (ATCC 9649) has been shown to require pyridoxamine phosphate (McNutt and Snell, 1950), thymidine (Kitay, et al., 1950), and an unsaturated fatty acid (e. g., oleic acid) (Kitay and Snell, 1950) for growth. In addition to these absolute requirements for growth, partial acid hydrolyzates of casein further stimula...

71 samples of milk and dairy products were collected from 18 cities throughout iran. 93 strains of lactic acid bacteria (lab) were isolated and assayed against four opportunistic patho gens including e. coli, proteus and klebsiella as gram-negative and s. aureus as a gram-positive organism. all indicators (organisms) were hospital strains. among isolated bacteria, lactobacilli (37 isolates) had...

In this series of publications, the action of (2chloroethyl)trimethylammonium chloride’ and certain other structurally related compounds will be described as a class of plant growth substances. The growth of plants after treatment with certain of these chemical compounds will be published in subsequent articles?, 3 The most characteristic effect is the development of stockier plants with shorte...

as well as the other small islands of the Lesser Antilles. In this view Bullbrook also concurs. Contrarily, Fewkes believes that the Caribs did not gain a foothold there, chiefly, it seems, because the typical stonework of the Lesser Antilles associated with the Caribs by Fewkes and other archeologists has not been found in Trinidad. There is a question, however, as to whether the stone artifac...