Zinc, Vitamin C Synergy and Immune Function

Category: Biology

The world is facing an unprecedented health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has been spreading steadily around the world since its first...

Probiotics

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The notion of probiotics has recently developed and most pharmacists have not been trained in these new food supplements. From birth, our gastrointestinal...

Drugs Identification in Urine, Bile and Gastric Contents using Thin Layer Chromatography in Multiple Screening Systems

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A method of simultaneous identification of 25 molecules in human urine, bile and gastric contents using liquid-liquid extraction followed by thin layer...

Impact of Particle Irradiation on the Immune System: From the Clinic to Mars

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Despite the generalized use of photon-based radiation (i.e., gamma rays and X-rays) to treat different cancer types, particle radiotherapy (i.e., protons and...

Measuring Apoptosis by Flow Cytometry

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Mitochondria are double-membraned organelles believed to have been integrated into modern eukaryotes via symbiosis of proteobacteria into an anaerobic...

The Strange world of Bionanomachines

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Very remarkably, many of nanomachines will always perform their functions automatically, after they are isolated and purified, provided the environment is not...

Replication Cycle of Viruses

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With all their different genomic structures, forms, and sizes, viruses basically have a relatively simple replication cycle. While only the genome of a...

Viruses

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Viruses are important pathogens in plants and animals, including man. The complete infectious viral particle is called a virion. Its genome carries a limited...

DNA Transfer between Cells

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Transfer of DNA occurs not only by fusion of gametes in sexual reproduction but also between other cells of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms (conjugation...

Bacteriophages

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The discovery of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages or phages) in 1941 opened a new era in the study of the genetics of prokaryotic organisms. Although they...

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