one of the most common health problems are diseases of the cardiovascular system with a great bulk of disease burden; while a considerable number of cardiac patients undergo cardiac surgery; cardiac surgical procedures with cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) are nowadays among the top list of surgical procedures. more than half of a century has passed since the introduction of total cardiopulmonary b...

objective: today, medicinal plants are widely used in remedies for several ailments and improvement of human health because of their pharmaceutical properties. this study aimed to document important useful medicinal plants and their medicinal characteristics for treatment of human ailments in the arjan _ parishan protected area in fars province of iran during 2010-2012. materials and methods: d...

Dysfunction of β -glucocerebrosidase (GCase) has no hydrolytic activity in patients of Gaucher's disease and increasing the risk factor for Parkinson's disease occurrence. Pharmacological chaperone design has been used to treat with misfolded protein in related disease, which utilized a small compound to cause protein folding correctly. This study employed the world largest traditional Chinese ...

INTRODUCTION Mutations in the gene encoding for acid β-glucosidase (β-glucocerebrosidase, GlcCerase) are seen in Gaucher disease (GD), which give rise to significant protein misfolding effects and result in progressive accumulation of glucosyl ceramide. The main treatment for GD is enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). The iminosugar glycosidase inhibitor N-(n-butyl)-1-deoxynojirimycin (miglustat, ...

the most common type of childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome is childhood absence epilepsy (cae) with well-defined electro clinical features but unknown pathological basis. the incidence of absence epilepsy is about 2 and 8 out of every 100 000 children up to the age of 16, and the prevalence is 2 and 10% of children with any form of epilepsy. children with cae suffer from high rate of pretreatmen...

Defining dose requirement, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics Clinical anaesthetists administer doses of drugs to obtain various degrees of drug effect. Some anaesthetic drug effects, such as muscle relaxation, are relatively easy to quantitate, whereas others such as anaesthetic depth are much more difficult. Anaesthetic dose requirement can be defined as the dose of drug that produces a de...