Spices, herbal xenobiotics and the stomach: Friends or foes?

Herbal medicines and kidney; friends or foes?

*Corresponding author: Azam Asgari; PhD, Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medicine Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Herbal products have been widely used around the world since ancient times. Herbal products are complex of organic chemicals that may come from any naive or processed part of a plant, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and seeds....

Phytoestrogens. Friends or foes?

BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services (BIPASS) offer support to scientists interested in gathering information related to alternative splicing (AS) events. The service BIPAS–SpliceDB provides access to AS information that has been extracted a priori from various public databases and stored in a data warehouse. In contrast, the BIPAS– Align&Splice service allows scientists to sub...

Beta-agonists--friends or foes?

Noradrenaline and the kidney: friends or foes?

Septic shock, systemic inflammation and pharmacological vasodilatation are often complicated by systemic hypotension, despite aggressive fluid resuscitation and an increased cardiac output. If the physician wishes to restore arterial pressure (>80-85 mmHg), with the aim of sustaining organ perfusion pressure, the administration of systemic vasopressor agents, such as noradrenaline, becomes nece...

Bacterial toxins: friends or foes?

Many emerging and reemerging bacterial pathogens synthesize toxins that serve as primary virulence factors. We highlight seven bacterial toxins produced by well-established or newly emergent pathogenic microbes. These toxins, which affect eukaryotic cells by a variety of means, include Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin, Shiga toxin, cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1, Escherichia coli heat-sta...