Carotid artery intima-media thickness in college students: race/ethnicity matters (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Racial/ethnic differences in common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) and in risk factors associated with CIMT have been predominantly observed in middle-aged and older individua
Chicken egg yolk antibodies (IgY) for detecting circulating antigens of <em>Schistosoma japonicum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: IgY isolated from egg yolk has been widely used in immunodiagnostic tests, including tests to detect circulating antigen (soluble egg antigen or SEA) of Schistosoma japonicum. RESULTS: A s
Highly selective antiplasmodial naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids from <em>Ancistrocladus tectorius</em> (Publications)
Naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, named ancistectorine A(1), N-methylancistectorine A(1), ancistectorine A(2), 5-epi-ancistectorine A(2), ancistectorine A(3), ancistectorine B(1), and ancistectorine C(1
Synthesis of a potent antimalarial agent through natural products conjugation (Publications)
Au naturel! (+)-Usnic acid (green) is a weak antimalarial agent, however, in conjugation with known antimalarial scaffolds and drugs, such as dihydroartemisinin (blue), potent activity against the blo
Antimalarial beta-carbolines from the New Zealand ascidian<em> Pseudodistoma opacum</em> (Publications)
One tetrahydro-beta-carboline, (-)-7-bromohomotrypargine (1), and three alkylguanidine-substituted beta-carbolines, opacalines A, B, and C (2-4), have been isolated from the New Zealand ascidian Pseud