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Stories about: metabolites

Diet Interferes with Anti-Cholesterol Drug American scientists say that copper and zinc in every day’s diet could affect the action of statin drugs, medications prescribed to lower cholesterol. Statins inhibit an enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol, so they are drugs used to prevent cholesterol deposits that can lead to heart disease. The molecule... 28 January 2011 02:05 GMT Engineered Enzyme Breaks Down Cocaine Very Fast Intoxication with cocaine is the reason why more than 500,000 emergency room visits take place every single year, in the United States alone. The drug is extremely toxic, and the body can only work so fast in breaking it down and eliminating it. Overdoses therefore occur at a frightening rate, and yet the US Food and... 26 April 2010 12:00 GMT New Mass Spectrometric Method Identifies Metabolites Faster Thanks to a new mass spectrometric method devised by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, in Jena, Germany, working together with colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague, the Czech Republic, doctors could soon require only a single drop of blood – less than a micro liter... 19 June 2009 09:34 GMT