Circumcision has been regarded through the ages from many points of view, lay and religious, and the reasons advanced for its practice are diverse and often rationalised to counter assertions of its i...
Meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is a drug which is selectively accumulated by the uptake-1 process in adrenergic tissues. When labelled with 131I, it may be used for the targetted radiotherapy of tumo...
Despite official support for the efficacy of cholesterol reduction, considerable controversy exists, and meta-analyses of this topic have produced conflicting results. The authors assessed the variabi...
The effects of light on rhodopsin reconstituted into dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine at a molar ratio of 1:70 have been studied as a function of temperature and time. The lipid phase behavior and therm...
Thermal isomerization of the retinal Schiff base C=N double bond is known to trigger the decay of rhodopsin's Meta I/Meta II photoproduct equilibrium to the inactive Meta III state [Vogel, R., Siebert...