had no influence on the survival time of scorbutic guinea pigs. Tetrahydrofolic acid, reported to possess 40% of the activity of ascorbic acid in the protocollagen proline-hydroxylase system ...

We put the new Browning 825 Sporter to the ultimate test at a French shooting estate shooting challenging grey partridge and ...

Aging is the progressive loss of organ and tissue function over time. Growing older is positively linked to cognitive and biological degeneration such as physical frailty, psychological impairment, ...

Since most of the hydroxyproline is found in collagen the present investigation was undertaken to determine if changes in urinary hydroxyproline could be found in conditions associated with ...

Lysyl hydroxylase (PLOD) Stabilizes collagen triple helix. Collagen synthesis is impaired in fibroblasts lacking ascorbate and in scorbutic animals. Regulation of the hypoxia inducible transcription ...

In the summer of 1771, London’s fashionable society was aflutter with news of Joseph Banks’s return from the South Seas. Almost precisely three years earlier, the young gentleman naturalist and an ...

In August 1699, the English adventurer William Dampier and the crew of HMS Roebuck, a twenty-six-gun warship, sailed into an uncharted bay on the far side of the world. It was Dampier’s second visit ...