Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most harmful metals, being toxic to most animal species, including marine invertebrates. Among marine gastropods, the periwinkle (Littorina littorea) in particular can accumulate high amounts of Cd in its midgut gland. In this organ, the metal can elicit extensive cytological and tissue-specific alterations that may reach, depending on the intensity of Cd exposure, fr...

Landscape groundcover plants are a diverse group of trailing or spreading species that naturally form continuous soil coverage.Ground cover plants that were used in this study consisted of vegetative propagules of: Vinca minor L. ٬Variegatum’, Vinca minor L. ٬Green’, Oxalis brasiliensis G. Lodd, Trifolium repens L., Phyla nodiflora L. and Frankenia thymifolia Desf. The aim of this study was to ...

Influence of various sets of evaluated six-group delayed neutron parameters on kinetic parameters P e[f and P e f f / A is analyzed. The comparative study of the kinetic parameters is made for the coupled fast-thermal system HERBE at the Vinca Institute. Methods of calculation and measurement techniques used in this analysis are described. The results of calculations are compared with measureme...

Purpose:When evaluated in patients with ovarian and other cancer, vintafolide (EC145), a potent folatetargeted vinca alkaloid conjugate, displayed a toxicity profile that seemed to be nonoverlapping with many standard-of-care cancer therapeutics. Itwas, therefore, hypothesized that combining vintafolidewith certain approved anticancer drugs may afford greater therapeutic efficacy compared with ...

Medicinal herbs are significant source of synthetic and herbal drugs. Before the availability of synthetic drugs, man was completely dependent on herbs as healthcare system. Medicinal herbs have been on the forefront whenever we talk about anticancer remedies. Vinca rosea (sadabahar) alkaloids, Vinblastine and Vincristine, are the most potent anticancer drugs known. Taxol isolated from Taxus br...

The Effects of Two Alkaloids Derived from Vinca rosea on the Malignant Cells of Hodgkin’s Disease, Lymphosarcoma and Acute Leukemia in Vivo Alberto M. Marmont and Eugenio E. Damasio 1 Studies of Lymphocyte Kinetics in Man Seymour Perry, George L. Irvin, 111, and Jacqueline Whang 22 The Effects of Allografts of Thymic Epithelial Reticular Cells on the Lymphoid Tissues of Neonatally Thymectomized...