Farmers’ Rights formally appeared in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as a means of recognising past, present, future contributions farmers conserving, improving, making available plant genetic materials that are important food agriculture. Discussions have been underway under auspices ITPGRFA’s Governing Body with recent Ad Hoc Technical Ex...

Bovine aortic endothelial cells release a heparin-like substance in the presence of 0.4% fetal calf serum. This substance inhibited the growth of smooth muscle cells in vitro by about 70%. Substitution of platelet-poor plasma for serum resulted in minimal liberation of inhibitory activity from the cells unless at least 10-fold higher concentrations of platelet-poor plasma were utilized. This su...

abstract   background: patients with addictions have many acute and chronic medical illnesses, both related and unrelated to their addictions. in spite of high incidence of substance-related disabilities, substance abuse is usually underdiagnosed in general hospitals. the objective of the present study was to investigate the frequency and pattern of substance use in patients with different medi...