The ultimate step in the formation of thebaine, a pentacyclic opiate alkaloid readily converted
to the narcotic analgesics codeine and morphine in the opium poppy, has long been …

Genes in plant secondary metabolic pathways enable biosynthesis of a range of medically
and industrially important compounds, and are often clustered on chromosomes. Here, we …

The kinetics of symplastic transport in staminal hairs of Setcreasea purpurea was studied.
The tip cell of a staminal hair was microinjected with carboxyfluorescein (CF) and the …

The psychedelic prodrug psilocybin has shown therapeutic benefits for the treatment of
numerous psychiatric conditions. Despite positive clinical end points targeting depression and …

The retinal rod Na/Ca-K exchanger (NCKX) is a unique calcium extrusion protein utilizing
both inward sodium gradient and outward potassium gradient. Three mammalian rod NCKX …

We have investigated the structure, function, and expression of the rat eye sodium/calcium+potassium
exchanger NCKX1. The sequence of independent rat NCKX1 clones and the …

PURPOSE: To clone the complementary DNA of the human retinal rod Na-Ca+ K exchanger.
METHODS: A human retinal cDNA library was screened initially with a radiolabeled probe …

Ca(2+)-depleted rod outer segments (ROS) were purified from bovine retinal rod
photoreceptors, and factors influencing Ca2+ influx into ROS via the plasma membrane Na+/Ca2+/K+ …

SEEKING the identity of the authors of the Turkish Spy1 has been fair scholarly sport ever
since the appearance in 1684 of the first volume of the collection. Two centuries and a half …

Da vies of Kidwelly (1627?-169 3), the most active translator from the French in his age, made
available to English readers well over a score ofFrench works. In qual ity these renditions …