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Drug companies make simpler dosing a priority.
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March 1, 2000
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Drug companies make simpler dosing a priority
Once-a-day regimes already may be in the pipeline
Clinicians are asking for it, patients are crying for it, and pharmaceutical companies are racing to deliver it: simpler dosing for HIV medications.
The growth in drug-resistant HIV in recent years indicates that patients are having difficulty maintaining their drug regimens, and many experts attribute this to the complicated dosing requirements of many antiretroviral medications.
The antiretroviral failures are, in general, problems with ...
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Venom of a hill centipede Scolopendra viridicornis inhibits growth of human breast tumor in mice
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Pharmacology
; ...about 30% alcohol leads to oozing of the venom from the tips of the poison claws. Oral...patients as a last resort. Use of this venom in traditional medicine and the reports of antitumor activity of snake venom disintegrins[1] led us to examine...
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Venom Hunter Rates Snakes.
Newspaper article from: Analytic Separations News
; ...for speed and agility. Venom rather than muscle became...consequence of this is that venom is an inherent condition...has now analyzed the venoms from the many different...actually possess true venoms," says Dr. Fry...smaller quantities of venom and lack fangs, but...
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Venom: Miracle Medicine?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...FDA has approved only a few venom-based drugs, such as captopril...medicines, research into animal venom has exploded," Milanich says. TOXIC BREW Venoms, also called zootoxins, are...Poisonous snakes produce venom in a gland in the roof of the...
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Venom Medicine.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...Brazil's Pit Viper Bothros brazili (BOW-throps bra-ZIL-ee) How it uses venom: Long, hollow fangs shoot venom into small animals, killing them for food. Venom wonder chemical: A protein that helps increase blood flow by blocking chemicals...
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Venom hunters: scientists probe toxins, revealing the healing powers of biochemical weapons.(animal toxin defense)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...snail-derived drug, calls venom an "amazing soup" with "great...toxic proteins that make up venom evolved in different animals...environmental conditions shape venoms in different animals. Despite...we can learn." What makes a venom The "amazing soup" that is...
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Bee venom therapy.(Shorts)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; The venom in the sting of a honey bee has anti-inflammatory...other inflammations. In his article "Bee Venom Therapy," Glenn Rothfeld, MD, suggests...colitis and asthma may also respond to bee venom therapy. Although the rationale for its...
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Cost of Producing Venom in Three North American Pitviper Species
Magazine article from: Copeia
; ...involved in producing venoms in these animals...cost associated with venom production in three...animals meter their venom conservatively. SNAKE venoms are variable mixtures...advantages of snake venoms (McCue, 2005). Toxic venom components are synthesized...
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Wasp venom immunotherapy may work by increasing allergic patient CD86, IL-10.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week
; ...NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Wasp venom immunotherapy may work by increasing CD86 and IL...cytokine production in patients with Hymenoptera venom allergy who receive venom immunotherapy remain unclear. "We examined the...
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M. altirostris venom differs immunologically from other Micrurus venoms.
Newspaper article from: Immunotherapy Weekly
; ...M. altirostris venom differs immunologically from other Micrurus venoms. Micrurus altirostris venom from Rio Grande do Sul...that M. altirostris venom presents different biological...characteristics from other Micrurus venoms, and some activities...
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The venom gland transcriptome of the Desert Massasauga Rattlesnake ( Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii ): towards an understanding of venom composition among advanced snakes (Superfamily Colubroidea).(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Molecular Biology
; ...been catalogued in snake venom proteomes, and several...Sarafotoxins are found only in venoms of Atractaspididae...coagulation factors Xa, cobra venom factor, waprins and...crotamine occur primarily in venoms of the Viperidae (Additional...these toxin families in venom make envenomation ...
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