a Magnetic Resonance Unit, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico b Division of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sonora, Hermosillo City, Mexico c Neuropsychology Department, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Mexico City, Mexico d Direccion de Investigacion, Hospital General de Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”, Mexico City, Mexico e Universidad Panamericana, ...

G. TOIGO,* M. APARICIO, P-O. ATTMAN, N. CANO, B. CIANCIARUSO,∏ B. ENGEL, D. FOUQUE, A. HEIDLAND, V. TEPLAN, AND C. WANNER *Istituto di Clinica Medica, Università di Trieste, Italy; †Service de Nèphrologie, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France; ‡Department of Nephrology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden; §Departement d’Hepatogastroenterologie et de Nutrition Clinique, CHP-Residen...

on Materia Medica was compiled by Mir Muhammad Hussain, a native of Khorasan and pupil of Mir Muhammad Ali-el-Husaini. He resided first in Khorasan, then in Shiraz, and afterwards in India, principally at Murshidabad, in Bengal. He tells us in his preface that, in A. H. 1185 (A. D. 1771), lie was persuaded to undertake the compilation of a Persian Pharmacopoeia, and that when this was completed...

The volatile and flavonoid compositions of the peel of Citrus medica L. var. Corsican fruits cultivated in Corsica were studied according to the maturity of the citron fruits measured using growing degree-days. Quantitative variation with the stage of development of the fruit was observed using gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry...

After being indexed in 2006 in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and Scopus, and later in Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports/ Science Edition citation databases, Biochemia Medica launched a new web page and online manuscript submission system in 2010, and celebrated its fi rst Impact Factor in the same year. Now, starting from the end of the 2011, the journal will also be indexed...

In ancient history, the most prominent writer on plant drugs was Dioscorides, “the father of pharmacognosy”. Between about 50-70 A.D. he wrote his fundamental work “De Materia Medica.” It destined to be one famous books pharmacology and medicine but is also rich in horticulture ecology. This classical medicine, translated many times, offers plenty data medical plants constituting basic materia ...