In a previous paper3 I concluded that treatment in hospital of patients with peptic ulceration on a liberal diet gave results as good as those obtained in hospital by strict dieting, strict dieting plus robaden or a liberal diet plus robaden. Doll2 also found that patients with gastric ulcers treated in hospital did as well on an almost normal diet as those given a strict ulcer diet. He found t...

Naturally occurring alkaloids are nitrogenous compounds that constitute the pharmacogenically active basic principles of flowering plants. Alkaloids are classified into several biogenically related groups. Tobacco alkaloids are metabolised from polyamines and diamines putrescine and cadaverine. N-methyl transferase is the first enzyme in alkaloid biosynthetic pathway which drives the flow of ni...

The kinetics of tropane alkaloids accumulation in different organs such as roots, leaves, stems, flowers and seeds of Datura innoxia was investigated by GC-MS. Twenty-six tropane alkaloids were detected. The ester derivatives of tropine (3alpha-tigloyloxytropine and 3-tigloyloxy-6-hydroxytropine) are the major compounds. Undifferentiated callus were established from the stem explants of Datura ...

With an estimated 16.5% of Americans experiencing symptoms from overactive bladder (OAB) and urinary incontinence (UI), this condition deserves continued research focus.1 In this issue of JMCP, D’Souza et al. present a retrospective claims database analysis of adherence, persistence, and switching behaviors, comparing cohorts of patients using different medications to treat OAB.2 D’Souza et al....

Speech and language abilities are of great importance for later participation in economical and social life. In Lower Saxony/Germany, severely speech-/language (SL) impaired children may obtain special treatment during preschool in a so-called “Sprachheilkindergarten” (STK), a kindergarten focusing on early SL therapy. Purpose: This work analyzes the role of play during SL-therapy at the STK an...

The speciication language VDM-SL is used in the model-oriented formal method known as the Vienna Development Method. There have been a number of diierent dialects of this language, but a standard for the language has now been deened. The draft standard includes a dynamic semantics which, in general, is not executable. A given speciication denotes a (possibly innnite) set of models according to ...