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UNINA9910465455703321 |
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Titolo |
Medicinal plants [[electronic resource] ] : classification, biosynthesis and pharmacology / / Alejandro Varela and Jasiah Ibanez, editors |
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New York, : Nova Biomedical Books, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Collana |
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Biotechnology in agriculture, industry and medicine series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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VarelaAlejandro |
IbañezJasiah |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Materia medica, Vegetable |
Medicinal plants |
Pharmacognosy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""MEDICINAL PLANTS: CLASSIFICATION, BIOSYNTHESIS AND PHARMACOLOGY ""; ""MEDICINAL PLANTS: CLASSIFICATION, BIOSYNTHESIS AND PHARMACOLOGY""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Biological Effects of β-Carotene""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""β-Carotene and Cardiovascular Disease""; ""β-Carotene and Immune Response""; ""β-Carotene as Anti-Inflammatory ""; ""β-Carotene as Antioxidant ""; ""β-Carotene and Skin Photodamage ""; ""β-Carotene and Diabetes""; ""β-Carotene and Maculopathy ""; ""β-Carotene and Pregnancy ""; ""β-Carotene and Cancer ""; ""Cancer Prostate""; ""Colon Cancer "" |
""Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia""""Lung Cancer""; ""Gastrointestinal Cancer""; ""Mechanisms of β-Carotene in Cancer ""; ""Clinical Studies on Cancer ""; ""Discussion""; ""References ""; ""Native Medicinal Plants used in the Ethnomedicine of the Córdoba Hills in Central Argentina: Relevance and Interest for Primary Health Care and Conservation""; ""Abstract ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Objectives""; ""Traditional Medicine in Peasant Populations of Argentina""; ""Ecology, Plant Resources and Highland Culture ""; ""Methodological Aspects ""; ""Results and Discussion"" |
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""I. Health and Medicine of the Highland Peasants """"1. How Peasants Name, Diagnose and Explain the Causes of Different Ailments""; ""A- Organic imbalances (originated by natural causes) ""; ""Originated by temperature imbalances ""; ""Originated by food imbalances""; ""Originated by blows or strains ""; ""Originated by alterations in the properties of blood and body humours ""; ""Originated by agents affecting the skin ""; ""Other imbalances and ailments ""; ""B. Imbalances generated by conflictive social relationships ""; ""2. How Peasants Prevent and Cure Different Afflictions "" |
""A.The use of remedies """"B. Symbolic and ritualistic aspects of peasant cures ""; ""II. Peasant Medicinal Plants ""; ""Characterization of Plant Pharmacopoeia""; ""Legislation and Control ""; ""III. Extraction, Use, Comercialization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants""; ""Conclusion""; ""References ""; ""Gastroprotective Triterpenoids: Pharmacological Mechanism ""; ""Abstract ""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Peptic Ulcer ""; ""2.1. Definition""; ""2.2. Gastric Anatomy""; ""2.3. Pathology""; ""3. Gastroprotection""; ""3.1. Functional Factors"" |
""3.1.1. Mucus-bicarbonate-phospholipid barrier """"3.1.2. Mucosal microcirculation ""; ""3.1.3. Motility ""; ""3.2. Humoral Factors""; ""3.2.1. Prostaglandins (PGs) ""; ""3.2.2. Nitric oxide (NO) ""; ""3.2.3. Lipoxins""; ""3.2.4. Resolvins""; ""3.2.5. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) ""; ""3.3. Neuronal Factors""; ""3.4. Other Gastroprotective Mechanism.""; ""3.4.1. Cytokines ""; ""3.4.2. Annexin-1""; ""3.4.3. Proteinase-activated receptors (PAR) ""; ""3.3.4. LTB4 and leukocyte adherence""; ""3.3.5. TNF-α""; ""4. Experimental Models to Study Gastroprotection ""; ""4.1. Ethanol Induce Gastric Damage"" |
""4.2. NSAIDs-Induced Gastric Damage "" |
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UNINA9910452694903321 |
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Autore |
Ferrell Jeff |
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Titolo |
Empire of Scrounge [[electronic resource] ] : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : NYU Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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Alternative Criminology Series |
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305.5/68/0973 |
305.5680973 |
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Marginality, Social -- United States |
Ragpickers -- United States |
Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Sordid Signs; 2 Street Life; 3 Street Knowledge; 4 Salvage Operations; 5 Scrapped Together; 6 Scrunge City; 7 Scrounging Zen; Coda: Improvisations on the Everyday; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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"Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.". -From the Introduction. In December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit |
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