ANAPHYLACTIC REACTION/ANGIOEDEMA ASSOCIATED WITH JELLYFISH STING

Anaphylactic reaction/angioedema associated with jellyfish sting

Abstract The most frequent jellyfish in Southern Brazil causes mainly local Jackets pain and skin plaques.A 3-year-old female bather presented an erythematous, irregular plaque on the left forearm after contact with a jellyfish and intense facial angioedema with facial flushing.The lungs had vesicular murmur, wheezes, and snorts, and pink and spumo

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Male contraception: narrative review of ongoing research

Abstract Background Since the release of the combined oral contraceptive pill in 1960, women have shouldered the burden of Food contraception and family planning.Over 60 years later, this is still the case as the only practical, effective contraceptive options available to men are condoms and vasectomy.However, there are now a variety of promising

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Modulation by Phosphonium Ions of the Activity of Mitotropic Agents Based on the Chemiluminescence of Luminols

Mitochondria-targeting drugs and diagnostics are used in the monitoring and treatment of mitochondrial pathologies.In this respect, a great number of functional compounds have been made mitotropic by covalently attaching the active moiety onto a triphenylphosphonium (TPP) cation.Among these compounds, a number of molecular detectors for reactive ox

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