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Open AccessAssessing cross-resistance within the pyrethroids in terms of their interactions with key cytochrome P450 enzymes and resistance in vector populations
It is important to understand whether the potential impact of pyrethroid resistance on malaria control can be mitigated by switching between different pyrethroids or whether cross-resistance within this insect...
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MED-PED: An Integrated Genetic Strategy for Preventing Early Deaths
New opportunities are emerging for preventing the consequences of serious diseases because of the discovery of causal mutations in specific gene loci. MED PED is an international collaboration to Make Early Diagn...
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Peptides in Biomedical Sciences: Principles and Practice
This review will discuss the evolution of radiopharmaceutical carriers and how peptides provide a new opportunity to develop highly specific carriers with desirable properties. The technical challenges in deve...
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Phospholipase A2-catalysed modification of plasma low density lipoproteins caused reduction of hypercholesterolemic rabbit plasma cholesterolin vivo
Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) hydrolyses certain phospholipids of low density lipoproteins. PLA2-treated LDL is known to be rapidly cleared from plasma. A prototype plasma filter containing immobilizedCrotalus atrox PL...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Sitosterol Therapy on Plasma Lipid and Lipoprotein Concentrations
The ideal drug for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia should be effective, free of subjective side-effects and of objective toxicity. The cholesterol analog, beta-sitosterol (Fig. 1), comes close to that id...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Workshop: Dietary Management of Hyperlipoproteinemias
Hyperlipidemias (hyperlipoproteinemias) have become one of the commonest metabolic syndromes. The incidence of hyperlipidemias in the general population, on the basis of published data (Schlierf et al., 1972; ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Workshop: Management of Hyperlipoproteinemias with Non-Absorbable Drugs
The workshop in the management of atherosclerosis was concerned with non-absorb-able drugs. These agents act within the intestinal lumen interfering with cholesterol and bile acid absorption. The resulting enh...