Free radicals are generated in the body by means of various conditions such as exercise, pollution, stress, poor diet, and smoking. They are known to attack the cell components and increase the risk of heart disease, ulcer, stroke, or cancer. In this study, we evaluated whether podophyllum treatment has a prophylactic effect on the prooxidant–antioxidant state following immobilization stress tr...

Podophyllum hexandrum Royle, a rhizomatous perennial herb from the Berberidaceae family, is a highly reputed medicinal plant known for its lignan, podophyllotoxin. Podophyllotoxin and its semisynthetic derivativatives are potent anticancer agents. The semisynthetic analogues of podophyllotoxin are also used in the treatment of lung cancer, testicular cancer, neuroblastoma, hepatoma and other tu...

Human beings are at risk of the exposure of radiation or radioactive materials since the World War II. Nuclear proliferation and terrorist activities has further strengthened the threats of the exposure of ionizing radiation (IR) to military, civilian, and emergency responders. IR possesses sufficient energy to strip electrons from atoms or molecules and thereby create highly reactive ions. IR ...

253 Use of Transfer Factor in Patients with Persistent Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection Blanca Maria Morfin-Maciel, MD, and Julieta Margarita Sotelo-Ortiz. Allergy, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico; Gynecology, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico. Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide. About 75 to 80% of sexua...

Human blood neutrophil granulocytes (neutrophils) treated with Podophyllum peltatum L.-derived compounds exhibited an enhanced oxidative response to subsequent challenge with bacterial formyl peptides. This priming effect was concerned with superoxide anion (O2-) release (respiratory burst). The phenomenon was observed with a potentized preparation containing, among other things, podophyllum ex...

253 Use of Transfer Factor in Patients with Persistent Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection Blanca Maria Morfin-Maciel, MD, and Julieta Margarita Sotelo-Ortiz. Allergy, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico; Gynecology, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico. Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide. About 75 to 80% of sexua...

253 Use of Transfer Factor in Patients with Persistent Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection Blanca Maria Morfin-Maciel, MD, and Julieta Margarita Sotelo-Ortiz. Allergy, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico; Gynecology, Hospital Angeles Mocel, Mexico City, Mexico. Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide. About 75 to 80% of sexua...

We have recently encountered a bowenoid papulo-sis (BP) patient whose lesion distributed in a remarkable linear arrangement. Bowenoid papulosis was characterized by slightly elevated papules or plaques in the genital region that histologically resembled Bowen's disease (BD) [1]. Its lesions may be discrete or coalesce to form patches, rings to a rare linear patterns [2]. A 31-year-old male was ...

The relative frequency of surgical sex reassignment of the male transsexual has prompted questions as to 'her' susceptibility to infections with gonorrhoea and the symptomatology and management of this infection in such patients. We have been unable to find any previous record of such a case and for this reason the present report may be of interest. Case report A 25-year-old male transsexual ha...

The continuity of the supply of drugs used in oncology and oncohematology, which are on the whole irreplaceable, has been the cause of major concern in recent years and, in particular during 2011. We have passed through, over the last few months, several 'crises' in the provision of remedies that mobilized and worried many in the medical and pharmaceutical professions in Brazil. The supply of m...