Tree-man by Human Papilloma Virus

February 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm | In blogging, changing, metaformation | 2 Comments
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An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing
out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.

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The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.

Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children – now in their late teens – in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.

To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.

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Effect of drugs on spiders

January 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm | In blogging | Leave a Comment
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Spider

SPIDERS were given the doses by feeding it by drug dosed flies and so the dose passes to the spider as a way to study the spider behavior after administration of certain drugs this experiment included

Lysergic acid diethyl amide ,

Mescaline ,

Hashish

Caffeine ,

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glycoside

January 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Salicin-perspective

  • Any of a group of organic compounds, occurring abundantly in plants , that yield a sugar and one or more non-sugar substances on hydrolysis
  • a simple sugar (monosaccharide) by replacing the hydrogen atom of one of its hydroxyl groups (OH) with the bond to another biologically active molecule.
  • occur abundantly in plants, especially as pigments, and are used in medicines, dyes, and cleansing agents.
Some medicinal value of the glycosides :
Cardiac glycosides
the glycosides of Digitalis purpurea (digitoxin, gitalin and gitoxin) and digoxin (from D. lanata). Strophanthin and ouabain are glycosides found in Strophanthus spp. Other cardiac glycosides are present in the skin of toads (Bufo maritimus, B. vulgaris), but are of toxicological rather than therapeutic interest.[used in the treatment of congestive heart failure ]
laxative glycosides
These glycosides contain an aglycone group that is a derivative of anthraquinone. They are present in senna, rhubarb and aloes, cascara and frangula ; they have a laxative effect .
these was just simple examples for what glycosides can do
some other functions of it as ….
Anti-inflammatory glycosides
Antirhumatic glycosides
renal disinfectant glycosides
adaptogen glycosides
counter irritant , rubifacient glycosides
expectorant glycosides
antibiotic glycosides
steroidal glycosides
analgesics glycosides

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