One of the most significant advances in medical history is the discovery and development of antibiotics, which in the middle of last century was flourishing and appeared to be the ultimate solution to the treatment of life-threatening human bacterial diseases. However, lately there has been a huge decline in the rate of discovery of new antimicrobial intervention strategies in parallel with an ...

A trial natriuretic factor (ANF), a 28-amino acid peptide hormone synthesized and secreted from atrial myocytes, has been suggested to play an important role in the regulation of extracellular fluid volume and arterial pressure. Physiological and pharmacological doses of this peptide have been shown to produce natriuresis and diuresis, vasorelaxation, and inhibition or antagonism or both of imp...

Lung cancer continues to be the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Recent advances in molecular diagnostics and immunotherapeutics have propelled the rapid development of novel treatment agents across all cancer subtypes, including lung cancer. Additionally, more pharmaceutical therapies for lung cancer have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in the last ...