Simvastatin

Essays, Papers:

in current category

Further analysis lead to the discovery of a new compound now known as Mevastatin. By 1976, the drug company Merck & Co. had become involved in the development of statins, and referencing Drs. Endo and Kuroda’s research, managed to successfully isolate a similar molecule, Lovastatin, from Aspergillus terreus...
Showed first 250 characters

Pay for FULL access Gives you access immediately to all 184 990 essays. You get access to all the essays. You can view as many as you like. As little as 14 cents/day! Submit essays Takes from 3 to 7 days, before your essays get reviewed. You must submit for review: 1 essay to get limited access 3 essays to get full access Figure out how to submit essays.

Endo and Kuroda’s research, managed to successfully isolate a similar molecule, Lovastatin, from Aspergillus terreus. The new compound was slightly more effective as an HMG Co-A reductase inhibitor than mevastatin. By altering the chemical composition of the mevastatin molecule, various statin drugs were later created...
Showed next 250 characters

Title	Pages / Words	Save
First Gene Therapy For Heart Failure Offered In Clinical Trials Patients enrolled in the multicenter CUPID trial (Calcium Up-Regulation by Percutaneous Administration of Gene Therapy in Cardiac Disease) will undergo a minimally invasive cardiac catheterization procedure that will introduce a specially engineered gene that stimulates production of an enzyme necessary for the heart to pump more efficiently...	2 / 331
heart attack is limited. These preventative measures include eating habits and an exercise regimen that was probably absent in the person's life before the MI. Survivors of MI's receive many instructions and prescriptions from their doctors and nurses about sticking to a new set of behaviors, such as not smoking and putting down that Twinkie...	2 / 549
Cardiomyopathy In many instances, the cause of dilated cardiomyopathy is unknown. This is medically referred to as primary cardiomyopathy. In some cases the patient inherits the tendency to develop dilated cardiomyopathy from their parents...	2 / 308
Placebo Effect The activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients...	2 / 552
Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure, also known as "cardiac decompensation, cardiac insufficiency, and cardiac incompetence," (Basic Nursing 1111) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart is failing and unable to do its work pumping enough blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs...	9 / 2382
congestive heart disease According to a recent study, people over 40 have a 1 in 5 chance of developing Congestive Heart Failure in their lifetime. Nearly 5 million people in the United States—mostly older adults—already have Congestive Heart Failure, and the number of people with Congestive Heart Failure keeps rising...	2 / 305
humor on cancer patients The purpose of the first phase of the steler model was to examine the evidence for the use of humor as a coping tool for patients with cancer. The second phase guided the support of the scientific accuracy of each article or study comparative evaluation and descision...	3 / 568