Alkaloid

Introduction When we hear the term substance abuse, we think about illicit drugs like crack, cocaine, marijuana, or heroin, we hardly ever think about the more mundane drugs such as caffeine. “In the US, more than 90% of adults use caffeine regularly, with an average consumption of more than 200 mg of caffeine per day - more caffeine than in two 6 ounce cups of coffee or five 12 ounce cans of soft drinks” (Nichols, 2015). This makes caffeine the perfect drug because it is widely-available, cheap…

left but found that the once knee-deep river he had crossed in summer had turned into fast moving rapids too strong to cross. He went back to the bus to wait until the water calmed down. Chris kept going and hunting. He ate seeds that were coated in alkaloid that prevented him from gaining nourishment from food. Had Chris not eaten these, he may have survived. He left a note (a copy can be found in here) to anyone that may come to the bus while he was out collecting berries. Chris McCandless…

1 Introduction Berberine (BBR), an isoquinoline alkaloid (Fig. 1), is isolated from many medicinal herbs, such as Coptidis rhizome (Coptis chinensis Franch.) and Cortex phellodendri (Phellodendron chinense C.K.Schneid.) (1). BBR has been used to treat microbial infection, diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal (GI) diseases due to its antibacterial, antidiarrheal and strong antidotal properties (2, 3). In recent years, much focus has been put on its other potential bioactivities, such as…

Since Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow was first published in 1973, the rainbow in the world of literature has not yet come; there is still much debate about how to assess this novel. While some people keep their faith in the text alone, and hence treat a novel as an independent existence, especially a novel as comprehensive as Gravity’s Rainbow, sometimes it is helpful to consider a literary work in the context of the writer’s other works. The evolutionary pattern of a writer’s career may shed light…

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Substance abuse has progressively become a growing epidemic in the United States, with an average of 23.5 million Americans addicted to alcohol and other drugs (Together,Join, 2010). This is estimated to one in every 10 Americans, ages 12 and over who are struggling with addiction. Among those affected by alcohol and substance related dependencies are pregnant women with nicotine addiction. Over the years there have been countless studies and breakthroughs on the substance of nicotine, pregnant…

Instead of looking at the history of witchcraft as Kittredge did, Boyer and Nissenbaum focused on the social and economical factors at play within seventeenth-century Salem among the male population. Boyer and Nissenbaum state that the more we have come to know these men for something like what they really were, the more we have also come to realize how profoundly they were shaped by the times in which they lived. For if they were unlike any other men, so was their world unlike any other…

The research work regarding the chemical processes within/relating to living organisms is said to be biochemistry, also known as biological chemistry. The complication of life can occur during biochemical process, if we control the information flow through biochemical signaling and through metabolism chemical energy flow. Various study fields like botany, medicines, genetics, Etc.which are areas of life science, are engrossed in research related to biochemical because biochemistry has made it…

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backfired and mortality rates were greater than the population (Heroin: What is it?, 2008). People can buy heroin either in its purest form, or laced with other substances that will enhance the high as well. The substance is composed of: morphine alkaloid (found in opium), and is “cut” with other substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, quinine, or sometimes poisons (What is Heroin?, 2014). Millions of people are addicted to heroine, and most are unable to overcome the urge to stop use.…