oesophageal reflux: in search of clear evidence-based indications Keady presents some updated guidelines on the drug treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). However, in order to provide clear management guidelines, we believe that the review should have first addressed the definition of GOR (ie, physiological) versus GORD (ie, pathological). In...

Isolated cultured roots of Convolvulus arvensis L. were incubated in 0.2 microcurie per milliliter methyl-(3)H-thymidine for 14 hours, for 64 hours, or for 14 hours followed by transfer to fresh nutrient medium without tritiated thymidine. Autoradiographs of serial, longitudinal sections of roots which were continuously incubated with tritiated thymidine showed that cells of the root cap colume...

Bois noir is an important grapevine yellows disease in Europe that can cause serious economic losses in grapevine production. It is caused by stolbur phytoplasma strains of the taxonomic group 16SrXII-A. Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) is the most important vector of bois noir in Europe. This polyphagous planthopper is assumed to mainly use stinging nettle [Urtica dioica L. ...

Sankhapushpi (Convolvulus pluricaulis) the popular Medhya Rasayana drug of Indian medicine has been reported in the past as having significant beneficial effect in patients of anxiety neurosis and epilepsy. Sharma et al (1965) has reported that the extract of this drug reduces the spontaneous motor activity of mice, the reduction being more maked in amphetamine treated hyperactive mice. The hyp...