Aditya V. Ashok*, Srinivas A., Ravitej K., Gopinadh V. A. Srinivas, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, Hindu college of pharmacy, Guntur Andhrapradesh, India, [email protected]. K. Ravitej, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, Hindu college of pharmacy, Guntur Andhrapradesh, India, [email protected] V. Gopinadh, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, Hindu college of pharmacy, ...

AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate the change in plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in paroxysmal (PAF), persistent (Pers-AF), and permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) (Perm-AF) patients. METHODS AND RESULTS In 96 lone AF patients (PAF=65, Pers-AF=17, and Perm-AF=14), BNP was measured before and 3 months after successful PVIs. At baselin...

Alphaviruses, such as chikungunya virus, o'nyong-nyong virus, and Ross River virus (RRV), cause outbreaks of human rheumatic disease worldwide. RRV is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus endemic to Australia and Papua New Guinea. In this study, we sought to establish an in vitro model of RRV evolution in response to cellular antiviral defense mechanisms. RRV was able to establish persist...

Extracts of nine species of plants traditionally used in Colombia for the treatment of a variety of diseases were tested in vitro for their potential antitumor (cytotoxicity) and antiherpetic activity. MTT (Tetrazolium blue) and Neutral Red colorimetric assays were used to evaluate the reduction of viability of cell cultures in presence and absence of the extracts. MTT was also used to evaluate...

BACKGROUND Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) are traditionally used as fall alert systems for older adults, a population that contributes an overwhelming proportion of healthcare costs in the United States. Previous studies focused mainly on qualitative evaluations of PERS without a longitudinal quantitative evaluation of healthcare utilization in users. To address this gap and better ...

Objective. To determine if preendoscopy Rockall score (PERS) enables safe outpatient management of New Zealanders with upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGIH). Methods. Retrospective analysis of adults with UGIH over 59 consecutive months. PERS, diagnosis, demographics, need for endoscopic therapy, transfusion or surgery and 30-day mortality and 14-day rebleeding rate, and sensitivity and spe...

From ancient days, medicinal plants are useful for the treatment of several diseases and disorders. Our traditional system or in Ayurvedic Industry is purely depend on the medicinal plants. Day to day many fruitful result came in the treatment of disease from Ayurvedic research which are having benefit of no side effects. One of the tropical medicinal Plants is Annona squamosa ; it has been use...

This is the first record of Oenomaus ortygnus (Cramer) damaging fruits of ilama (Annona diversifolia) and extends the butterfly distribution for three states in Mexico.

BACKGROUND Cancer cells rapidly acquire resistance leading to treatment failures. In the present study, we have evaluated the cytotoxicity of 17 methanol extracts from 11 Cameroonian medicinal plants against the sensitive leukemia CCRF-CEM cells and the best ones were further tested on a panel of 8 other human cancer cell lines, including various MDR phenotypes as well as against the normal AML...