after antibiotics are halted; however, except for small numbers of cases, this does not seem to be the case. Even microbes, such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, that produce CWDB naturally appear to be curable with penicillin. Most intriguing, however, is the role of CWDB in diseases in which there is no known etiological agent, but appear to be infectious in nature. Most prominent of these are sarco...

Dynorphin A and its fragments (e.g. dynorphin A-(1-13)) potently displace prototypical alkaloid ligands for the ~ subtype of opioid receptor in rat (Quirion and Pert, 1981) and guinea pig (Chavkin et al., 1982; Corbett et al., 1982) brain membranes. However, we and others (Quirion and Pert, 1981; Corbett et al., 1982) have found that dynorphin A-related peptides also exhibit substantial potency...

Recently we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician Victor Preda. On this occasion, the Department of Molecular Sciences, supported by the local branch of the Romanian Academy and Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca, organized a commemorative scientific session “Academician Victor Preda centenary” which was attended by leading figures of the Iuliu Hațieganu Univers...