Strychnia and its Antidote

Case of Strychnia Poisoning

About 1 p.m., on the afternoon of the 8th of September, I "was summoned to see one of the hospital servants, a Goorgah of H. M.'s 8th Bombay N. I., "who, it was alleged, had poisoned himself. On arriving at the hospital I found the would-be suicide lying on a cot in the medical ward, in a high state of excitement, and evidently suffering from very acute pain; his countenance wore an anxious exp...

Bacillus subtilis locus encoding a killer protein and its antidote.

We have isolated mutations that block sporulation after formation of the polar septum in Bacillus subtilis. These mutations were mapped to the two genes of a new locus, spoIIS. Inactivation of the second gene, spoIISB, decreases sporulation efficiency by 4 orders of magnitude. Inactivation of the first gene, spoIISA, has no effect on sporulation but it fully restores sporulation of a spoIISB nu...

An Antidote and Emergency Case

The Metamorphosis Antidote

Previews by catalyzing the removal of iodine from the inner ring. When the function of D3 was inactivated by iopanoic acid (IOPA), a specific inhibitor of the enzyme, the asym-metric growth pattern in response to thyroid hormone What if you woke up one morning and your eyes were was lost, and both dorsal and ventral CMZ grew equally. on the top of your head? You would be confused to see In comp...

Black Seed (Nigella Sativa) and its Constituent Thymoquinone as an Antidote or a Protective Agent Against Natural or Chemical Toxicities

Nigella sativa (N. sativa), which belongs to the botanical family of Ranunculaceae, is a widely used medicinal plant all over the world. N. sativa seeds and oil have been used in the treatment of different diseases. Various studies on N. sativa have been carried out and a broad spectrum of its pharmacological actions have been established which include antioxidant, antidiabetic, anticancer, ant...