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Orazio, la Fortuna, l’unicorno: lettura di CB 93a
2017
Questa nota presenta l’analisi di CB 93a (Cum Fortuna voluit me vivere beatum), un breve componimento poetico che risulta fondato su una tematica ben presente in molte liriche classiche e medievali: il lamento per l’arrivo della vecchiaia che, di conseguenza, esclude l’attività amorosa. Il componimento, quanto a immagini e motivi, risulta affine a Orazio, carm. III 26 (Vixi puellis nuper idoneus). Il poeta medievale aggiunge, di suo, alcuni temi simbolici e cristiani, quali la figura dell’unicorno e la separazione del grano dalla paglia (Mt. 3, 12), particolarmente appropriati per il sec. XIII e nella prospettiva della salvezza. This paper offers the analysis of Carmina Burana (CB) 93a (Cum…
Rileggendo il «Within piscator» di Letaldo di Micy
2017
Il saggio propone una presentazione complessiva del «Within piscator» («De quodam piscatore quem ballena absorbuit»), poemetto latino del X secolo comunemente attribuito a Letaldo di Micy. La disamina dell’opera si sviluppa in varie direzioni: tradizione manoscritta ed edizioni critiche; vita e opere di Letaldo di Micy; rapporti con la tradizione classica, biblica e cristiana; "status quaestionis" e interpretazioni critiche; problemi testuali e filologici; lingua e stile; metrica e versificazione. This essay offers a comprehensive analysis of the «Within piscator» («De quodam piscatore quem ballena absorbuit»), latin short poem of the Xth century, commonly attributed to Letaldus of Micy. Th…
Cytotoxicity and modes of action of five Cameroonian medicinal plants against multi-factorial drug resistance of tumor cells
2013
Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Beilschmiedia acuta Kosterm, Clausena anisata (Willd) Hook, Fagara tessmannii Engl., Newbouldia laevis Seem., and Polyscias fulva (Hiern) Harms. are medicinal plants used in Cameroonian traditional medicine in the treatment of various types of cancers. The present study aims at investigating 11 methanolic extracts from the above Cameroonian medicinal plants on a panel of human cancer cell lines, including various drug-resistant phenotypes. Possible modes of action were analyzed for two extracts from Beilschmiedia acuta and Polyscia fulva and alpha-hederin, the representative constituent of Polyscia fulva. Materials and methods Cytotoxicity was determi…
Natural Products Derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine as Novel Inhibitors of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
2010
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has become an important molecular target in cancer therapy. Various small molecules and therapeutic antibodies targeting EGFR family members have been developed during recent years and are established in clinical oncology. However, increasing clinical application of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors has resulted in the development of resistance to EGFR-targeting drugs due to the selection of EGFR-mutated variants. This phenomenon forced the search for novel EGFR inhibitors with activity towards EGFR-mutant tumors. This review describes recent achievements in natural products derived from medicinal plants as novel EGFR inhibitors.
Activity of Artemisinin-Type Compounds Against Cancer Cells
2012
Clinical Oncology strives for complete remission of patients with cancer, but still crusades against multidrug resistance of various cancers. Scientists and clinicians have been challenged to identify new potent anticancer compounds with new targeting strategies. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provides a large spectrum of medicinal plants containing many biocompounds that possess anticancer activities. These represent a source of molecules that may have antiproliferative effects on a variety of cancers.
Medicinal alkaloid as a sex pheromone
1997
Apuntes para el estudio social de la fiesta en España
2007
El artículo ofrece una perspectiva para el estado de la cuestión del estudio de la fiesta en España, desde la sociología y la antropología. Se constata cómo tras algunos trabajos pioneros, la fiesta se convierte en objeto legítimo de estudio durante la década de los ochenta y los noventa. Las transformaciones experimentadas por el ritual festivo en condiciones de modernidad se plasman en una diversificación de metodologías y en un viraje epistemológico. Los desplazamientos en el objeto celebrado y la complejidad creciente del sujeto celebrante obligan a repensar conceptos clave, como ritual, tradición o comunidad. Por fin, se plantean algunos de los temas de estudio emergentes, y se señalan…
Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) for molecular targeted therapies of tumours.
2009
Scientific progress in genetics, cell and molecular biology has greatly ameliorated our comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms of neoplastic transformation and progression. The rapidly advancing identification of molecular targets in human cancers during the last decade has provided an excellent starting point for the development of novel therapeutics. A huge variety of potential molecular targets have been identified, many of which are already in the market for therapeutic purposes. It is now becoming possible to target pathways and/or molecules that are crucial in maintaining the malignant phenotype. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is often considered as alternative or…
Biopiracy versus One-World Medicine-From colonial relicts to global collaborative concepts.
2017
Abstract Background Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional knowledge, can be understood as form of neocolonialism. Hypothesis The One-World Medicine concept attempts to merge the best of traditional medicine from developing countries and conventional Western medicine for the sake of patients around the globe. Study design Based on literature searches in several databases, a concept paper has been written. Legislative initiatives of the United Nations culminated in the Nagoya protocol aim to protect traditional knowledge and regulate benefit-sharing with indigenous communiti…
La pareja Bazo–Estómago y el trayecto de Zuyangming
2015
In this paper, we study the reason why Zuyangming (stomach meridian) travels the body through yin territory in contrast with the other eleven main meridians governed by the quantitative–qualitative yinyang synchronicity of meridians and territories to discover. Zuyangming meets this principle only partially (in face and leg) and that is why we attempt to decipher the reasons for this exception in the thoraco–abdominal trajectory. Ancient traditional medical texts describe the internal and external routes of meridians and the relations between the spleen–stomach pair, which Su Wen 8 transforms into spleenstomach, mentioning the membranous binding (connective tissue today) which unifies both …