The effects of the cardiac glycosides may be listed as follows: Therapeutic doses have no proved useful therapeutic effect on the normal heart, but have been shown to increase the contractile ...

Glycosides have been found to have various uses in treating disease, for instance the cardiac glycosides for heart disease. Glycosylation is crucial for cell recognition, signal transduction ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed) is known to contain sufficient amounts of cardiac glycosides, which are known to be toxic to humans ...

IT is now a hundred and seventy-six years since William Withering's little book, An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medicinal Uses: With practical remarks on dropsy and other diseases, 1 ...