Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Over time, chronic hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections can progress to advanced liver disease, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Unlike other forms, more than 80% of hepatitis C infections become chronic and lead to liver disease. When combined with hepatitis B, hepatitis C now accounts for 75% percent of all cases of liver disease around the world. Liver failure caused by hepatitis C is now leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
The relationship between free energy and electron movement along the electron transport chain
The relationship between number of acres a Kipsigis man owns and the number of offspring he has duri
Infants can segment adult speech into individual words.
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Determine the enthalpy change of this reaction
Algebraically determine the exact value of sin(-π/6)+cos (7 π/4)