Mini Review: Is fluoroquinolone drug or poison?

Phytoestrogens : food or drug ? Mini - review

Within the past several years, the relation between diet and health has been accepted by the mainstream nutrition community and in this connection interest in the physiological role of bioactive compounds present in plants has dramatically increased over the last decade. The phytoestrogens are bioactive molecules present as nutritional constituents of widely consumed vegetables. Their name deri...

Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Mini Review

Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has recently emerged as a global health problem and pose a significant threat to TB control programmes. XDR-TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to at least isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RIF), any fluoroquinolone (FQs) and any of the three second line injectable drugs [amikacin, kanamycin (aminoglycosides) or capreomycin (polypeptide...

Fluoroquinolone drug class update.

Chocolate: Panacea or Poison??

Are you a chocoholic? If the answer is "Yes" then you are far from being alone. Aside from the weighty issue of rising poundage, there is also a more pertinent issue for sufferers of chronic pain. There appear to be 2 sides to this story and I really cannot say which is the more accurate: it may well be a case of "suck it and see"" The "for" argument goes some...

A Mini Review on the Study of New Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Fluoroquinolone JNJ-Q2

The prokaryotic type II topoisomerases (DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV) and the eukaryotic type II topoisomerases represent the cellular targets for quinolone antibacterial and anticancer agents. Both enzymes effort the selectively shift from an antibacterial to an antitumor activity. In the search for potential molecule in the quinolones series, some of quinolone analogs displayed antibacteri...