Man fears death and tries to exorcise its presence through rituals and refined philosophical constructions or, more simply, by trying to “ignore” it; in nature however, life and death represent a single unit that is difficult to break down and separate, thanks to which life is able to continue… Scarica PDF
Uridine is a pyr imidine nucleoside playing a crucial role in mammalian cell life because it par t icipates, together with its phosphate analogs(UMP, UDP and UTP), to protein biosynthesis, cell growth and replication, glucose deposit ion in stores, disposal of xenobiot ics through theglucurono-conjugat ion pathway, and biosynthesis of cell membranes… Scarica PDF
Dermatology is one of the branches of medicine that can obtain the greatest benefit from the use of phytotherapeutic products. Extracts of drugs of plant origin have always been used in therapy and cosmetics… Scarica PDF
…although the drug had been widely used for thousands of years by the Chinese and Marco Polo also reported having seen the trees in the forests of Fokien, it is not known when unrefined camphor, the only real and effective medicine from this plant, was first extracted…. Scarica PDF
In 1677, the Neapolitan doctor Giuseppe Donzelli, Baron of Dogliola, published his “Teatro Farmaceutico Spagirico”, a medical text whichwas very successful throughout the 17th century1… Scarica PDF
The use of medicinal plants among the Nomad people of Central – Eastern Africa… The research was made among the Nile-Hamitic peoples, a linguistic and racial group of Ethiopic origin, principally widespread in that area of Central Eastern Africa going to the Upper Nile to the Victoria lake… Scarica PDF
If it is clear that these peoples have always dealt with the said drugs in the same way, it is also true that the western medicine, owing to its contacts with the Arabian culture during the centuries, became acquainted and started utilizing drugs of crucial importance for the materia medica… Scarica PDF
The study of ethno-medicine has given science drugs such as strophanthin, curare and vincristine and will cer tainly reserve sensational surpr ises for us in the future, however it is undeniable that the pr inciple of the overall concept of medicine as a subject took the form of a science precisely with the development of […]
… the discovery however, initially of little pharmaceutical interest, then opened up the way to the chemical and pharmacological study of that numerous and complex group of substances common as pigments in many higher plants: the so-called flavonoids… Scarica PDF