Clifford James sells mens and womens shoes and clothing, and has a database of over 600,000 loyal customers. Although, the business has become one of the largest suppliers of shoes in the UK, we have never lost sight of what has taken us here, namely quality and value for money. Go to Clifford James Show reviews for Past Year Past 6 Months Past Month Past Week Be the first to ask a question about Against the Odds Business Biographies and Memoirs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 27 28 next » From Rocks to Angels Physics and the search for fundamental laws: Is physics turning into biology? Friday Fabulous Flower - Squashes & pumpkins Is being a little bit obese unhealthy? still just don't understand a lot of the basic science very well A review in this week's issue of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has an account of something that greatly contributes to one of these challenges; getting compounds into cells. It's a basic problem in developing any drug.

You may have a molecule that looks miraculous in the test tube but which utterly fails once you put it into a living organism. Many factors can contribute to this lack of translation but one of the most basic reasons is simply that the compound is not getting inside the cell. Recall that the cell membrane is expressly designed to keep things out, which is a good thing for evolution but a bad thing for drug designers. handheld vacuum cleaner sydneyThe membrane is composed of phospholipids with all kinds of proteins and other biomolecules embedded within it. dyson vacuum cleaners on sale australiaDrugs can get across this membrane by simple passive diffusion, although in some cases they may be shuttled across by special helper proteins. vacuum cleaners bissell parts

In general any foreign substance will have to be hydrophobic enough to get past this membrane. But even otherwise it will have to satisfy some simple properties; it can't be too big and charged for instance. And it can't be too hydrophobic otherwise it won't dissolve in the aqueous medium surrounding the membrane in the first place. Since its original discovery the protein has turned into a minor nemesis for drug designers and it's become a part of a notorious list of proteins called "anti targets" that can lead to side-effects and lack of efficacy (we encountered one of these anti targets before - the hERG channel protein). And that's not only because Pgp is ubiquitously expressed in the intestine and liver where most drugs are metabolized. Nor is it because of its special role in the blood-brain barrier which creates additional problems for CNS drugs. It's because when it comes to Pgp, scientists may not have a clue about how to possibly solve the problem. Usually when you encounter an unwanted protein that binds to your drugs, you try to add a modification to your drug to block this binding.

In many cases, structure-activity relationship (SAR) can help you pin down some trends; you remove a basic nitrogen atom here, you get rid of a double bond there, you add a fluorine to that ring. If you know what kinds of molecular features a rogue antitarget protein likes, you can avoid those features in your drug. But not so for Pgp. Pgp is, in the words of the review author, a "hydrophobic vacuum cleaner". And it's one that will put Sir James to shame. What kinds of molecules does it like as substrates? Here's a description from Kerns and Di's book "Drug-like Properties": Dyson is perhaps best known for its bagless vacuum cleaners invented by the company’s namesake, James Dyson.  The company’s first bagless vacuum hit store shelves in 1983 and since has grown to includes air filters, bladeless fans, hand dryers of hurricane like force and even space heaters. Dyson’s approach to products is one rooted in industrial design, often building upon existing products and fixing their common flaws.  

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