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New Way to Open Cellular Ion Channels, Implications for Drug Design

...Physiology at Penn – screened venoms from over 100 poisonous invertebrate species to make this discovery. The enzyme, sphingomyelinase D (SMase D), splits a lipid called sphingomyelin that surrounds the channel embedded in the cell membrane. As a result, the channel opens to allow the passage of small ions i...

Lakhs of Indians Exposed to High Levels of Poisonous Gases

...ons of Indians are being exposed to high levels of poisonous gases, including cancer-causing volatile organic compounds and sulphur fumes//, and the country lacks the mechanism to monitor or regulate these toxins, according to a report relased here today. Titled 'Smokescreen: Ambient Air Quality in India,' th...

Rahul Mahajans Condition Is Serious But Stable : Hospital

...isoning happened because of stale eatables or some poisonous substance was mixed with the food we cannot say at the moment,' he said. A multi-disciplinary medical team headed by Dr. Prasad Rao, who is the hospital's internal medicine specialist, is attending to Mahajan who was admitted at 3 am, he said. He s...

Investigators Find Poisonous Chemicals In Four More Drugs In China

...the center of a medical scandal are tainted with a poisonous industrial chemical. // It was found that patients receiving treatment in a local hospital in Guangzhou, capital city of south's China Guangdong province May 15, 2006 have shown symptoms of acute renal failure after having taken the fake injection...

Lower Back Tattoos Can Lead To Problems During Childbirth

...skin carries the risk of transmitting allergens or poisonous pigments into deep tissues, leading to irritation. The study was based on work by a researcher at the University of California in San Diego. Doctors have been encouraged to use a different, more complicated method of providing anaesthesia to women ...

Hong Kong Citizens Fear over Poisonous Vegetables in Local Markets

Concerns of citizens over the poisonous vegetables found in local markets has paved for th...at helped alleviate the citizens' anxiety over the poisonous vegetables found in local market. Carrie Yau, Permanent Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food highlig...

Caution: Apricot Seeds May Be Poisonous

...rnment's food watchdog warned the public about the poisonous nature of the apricot seeds. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that the seeds// if consumed in larger quantities could be fatal. It is said that they can produce cyanide and result in death. A maximum of two bitter apricot kernels may be safe...

Yellow Oleander Plants Fuels Suicide Rates In Sri Lanka

...s increased in multifold with people consuming the poisonous seeds of the common roadside// yellow oleander plants even for the most trivial reasons. This is an ornamental plant often used for hedging that grows all over the island. It has yellow trumpet-like flowers and a fruit the size of a conker. Inside ...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...r public water supply. When analyzed about how a poisonous chemical like benzene could wind up in a commercially produced soft drink, it was found that it could be by two ways. One being some episodes of benzene leaking into commercial products, such as soft drinks and bottled water, from faulty equipment or...

Gold Nanoparticles Are Good Detectors Biological Toxins

...device so that it can be taken out to places where poisonous substances are thought to be present. Such a gadget they hope would give basic information about which toxins were present and in what quantities. Speculating that the portable detector could be ready in five years time Professor Russell said that th...

Mineral Water Stored In Plastic Containers For Long Could Be Lethal

...oxin named as antimony to the water. The levels of poisonous toxin increase the longer the water is stored, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. World expert William Shotyk tested ground water and 15 types of bottled mineral water in Canada and 48 brands of water in Europe. His tests found traces of an...

Need For Smarter Ways To Identify Fake Drugs & Internet Counterfeiting: WHO

...to cheat customers have been found to contain even poisonous substances, unfit for human use. These medicines y...ollowing consumption of counterfeit medicines with poisonous substances and reports of unwanted pregnancy from use of birth control pills made out of flour has d...

The Return Of The Clemenceau: Happy India

...e proposed transfer of the ship that is laden with poisonous material (lead, mercury, asbestos and PCBs) by the top administrative court in France. The French President has further stated that the European Union should re-consider about strengthening of Europe's capacity to dispose of pollution. He also call...

Self-defense Mechanism of food borne bugs found

...m of how Escherichia coli protects itself from the poisonous nitric oxide produced by the host against E. coli. The researchers found that E. coli produces a protein called NorR which contains a iron molecule which binds to the nitric oxide produced by the host and protects the bacterium against host defense. ...

Poisonous Gas Caused Mass Extinction

...ass extinction on earth may have been triggered by poisonous volcanic gas which erupted in Siberia 250 million years ago // , according to a new research. This must have happened before dinosaurs came into existence, towards the Permian era's end, when over two-thirds of amphibians and reptiles were wiped out....

NY Health Dept Bans 3 Ayurveda Drugs

...ngredients. The sale of products deemed to contain poisonous substances or to be detrimental to human health is prohibited under New York City Health Code," the department said.It said in the past year there have been three confirmed cases of adult lead poisoning among New York City residents who used products...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

...ingredients. As per Rule 161, medicines containing poisonous substances like mercury, arsenic and red oxide of lead have to carry a warning. In order to pose a solution the government is making mandatory for testing of all herbal medicines, including Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha from January 1, 2006. Every l...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

...hip between carbon monoxide and nitric oxide – two poisonous gases produced by different types of cells in the body. Their research findings suggest that a patient’s chances of living or dying after a lung transplant depend, in large part, on the outcome of an internal power struggle between two enzymes that c...

Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba

...ve the tendency to avoid bitter food as spoiled or poisonous in nature. The solution to overcome the bitterness is to follow Mediterranean cuisine or to prepare it with oil like in American diet....

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