Biology
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N-acetylcysteine treatment is efficacious in dogs when administered within two hours of toxic paracetamol ingestion
Paracetamol has been reported to be as effective as aspirin in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain in dogs. The main effect of toxicity in dogs is liver damage, and GI… Read more.
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Paracetamol Is Lethal to Snakes
Here is a tale of pharmaceutical warfare that’ll make your scales stand on end. Welcome to Guam, where the brown tree snakes are throwing the wildest party since the Ice… Read more.
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Rubia cordifolia aka common madder or Indian madder
Rubia cordifolia, often known as聽common madder聽or聽Indian madder, is a species of聽flowering plant聽in the聽coffee聽family,聽Rubiaceae. It has been cultivated for a red pigment derived from roots. Common names of this plant include聽manjistha聽in聽Sanskrit,聽Marathi,聽Kannada聽and聽Bengali,聽majith聽in聽Hindi聽and聽Gujarati,… Read more.
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Rubia peregrina aka common wild madder
Rubia peregrina, the common聽wild madder,聽is a聽herbaceous聽perennial聽plant species belonging to the聽bedstraw聽and聽coffee聽family聽Rubiaceae. Etymology The genus name聽Rubia聽derives from the Latin聽ruber聽meaning “red”, as the roots of some species (mainly聽Rubia tinctorum) have been used since… Read more.
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Rubia
Rubia聽is the type聽genus聽of the聽Rubiaceae聽family聽of聽flowering plants, which also contains coffee. It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing聽herbs聽and聽subshrubs聽native to the聽Old World.聽The genus and its best-known species are commonly known… Read more.
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Hydrangea macrophylla聽
Hydrangea macrophylla聽is a species of聽flowering plant聽in the聽family聽Hydrangeaceae,聽native聽to Japan. It is a聽deciduous聽shrub聽growing to 2聽m (7聽ft) tall by 2.5聽m (8聽ft) broad with large heads of pink or blue flowers in summer and… Read more.
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Hyperaccumulators are plants with an ability to absorb more than 100 times higher metal concentrations than typical organisms
A聽hyperaccumulator聽is a plant capable of growing in soil or water with very high concentrations of聽metals, absorbing these metals through their roots, and concentrating extremely high levels of metals in their… Read more.
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Zombie Ant Fungus “Medicinal potential”
Ophiocordyceps are known in the pharmaceutical world to be a medically-important group. O. unilateralis fungi produce various known secondary metabolites, as well as several structurally uncharacterised substances. These natural products are reportedly being investigated… Read more.
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Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis AKA Zombie Ant Fungus Wiki
The zombie-ant fungus is easily identifiable when its reproductive structure becomes apparent on its dead host, usually a carpenter ant. At the end of its life cycle,聽O. unilateralis聽typically generates a… Read more.
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Ants and Aphids Wiki
Some species of聽ants聽farm aphids, protecting them on the plants where they are feeding, and consuming the honeydew the aphids release from the聽terminations聽of their聽alimentary canals. This is a聽mutualistic relationship, with these… Read more.
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