A Widely Accepted Definition Is Lacking

Why isn't endogenous ouabain more widely accepted?

During the past few years, several distinguished senior colleagues who visited our department and inquired about the status of endogenous ouabain (EO) have asked, “How come I didn’t know about these [published] data?” And, “Why isn’t endogenous ouabain more widely accepted?” I usually simply shrug and express disappointment that EO is not yet a “mainstream hormone,” even though the seminal repo...

Laparoscopic surgery is a current tide of widely accepted standard procedure for endometrial cancer.

Reduced chemical defence in ant-plants? A critical re-evaluation of a widely accepted hypothesis

Since its original formulation by Janzen in 1966, the hypothesis that obligate ant-plants (myrmecophytes) defended effectively against herbivores by resident mutualistic ants have reduced their direct, chemical defence has been widely adopted. We tested this hypothesis by quantifying three classes of phenolic compounds (hydrolysable tannins, flavonoids, and condensed tannins) spectrophotometric...

Is ENS PER SE the Definition of Substance in Avicenna

Reply to "Letter to the editor: 'Why isn't clinical experience with ouabain more widely accepted?'".

REPLY: Fürstenwerth (12a) notes that my “Perspectives” on endogenous ouabain (EO) (2) 1) didn’t mention the use of ouabain as a therapeutic and antihypertensive agent (true; see last paragraph); 2) didn’t consider the view that “(EO) is not ‘ouabain’” (21) [I cited an earlier version (32) and the refutation (24); my article (2) was published online 4 days before Lewis and colleagues’ (21); see ...