Cancer patients treated with antimitotic drugs in the taxane and vinca alkaloid classes sometimes develop a chronic painful peripheral neuropathy whose cause is not understood. In animal models of painful peripheral neuropathy due to nerve trauma or diabetes there is obvious axonal degeneration accompanied by an abnormal incidence of spontaneous discharge in A-fiber and C-fiber nociceptors. But...

1 National University of Pharmacy, Pushkinskaya 53, Kharkov, Ukraine 2 Kaunas Medical University, A. Mickevièiaus 9, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the infusion produced from lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor), blossoms and fruits of monopistillate hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), motherwort (Leonorus cardiaca), knotweed (Polygonum aviculare) and fi...

We demonstrate the presence of animal personality in an inter-tidal gastropod, Littorina littorea, both in a sample of individuals infected by the trematode Cryptocotyle lingua and in an uninfected sample. On average infected individuals behaved more cautiously than individuals free of infection, but the parasite did not affect repeatability. Although the parasite is not associated with greater...

An experiment to study the feasibility of intercropping the short duration agronomical crops in periwinkle was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal Plants Garden, P.K.V. Akola during 1988 - 89, 89 - 90 and 90 - 91. The highest monetary return of Rs. 15,604/ per hectare was obtained from an intercropping system of periwinkle and groundnut is row proportion of 2:1.

Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most harmful metals, being toxic to most animal species, including marine invertebrates. Among marine gastropods, the periwinkle (Littorina littorea) in particular can accumulate high amounts of Cd in its midgut gland. In this organ, the metal can elicit extensive cytological and tissue-specific alterations that may reach, depending on the intensity of Cd exposure, fr...

the subcutaneous inoculation of 16 white mice and 10 golden hamsters with l.tropica major resulted in the development of leishmanial lesions in all, becoming generalized in some.two of 10 hamsters inoculated intraperitoneally with this parasite developed generalized lesions. on the other hand, the inoculation of l. tropica minor to 128 mice subcutaneously and 170 mice intraperitoneally did not ...

conclusions penetrating trauma from wooden fragments provides a diagnostic challenge. a stubborn discharge from a wound must always raise the suspicion of retained fragment. early and appropriate surgical exploration is imperative. introduction in contrast with victims of major trauma, patients who suffer minor injuries receive little specialist input. in most cases, this causes no difficulty, ...