Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science articles from January 2004

Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science archives from January 2004

Pharmacodynamic investigations of Polypodium polypodioides L. Watt.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT We wish to report the discovery of anti-arrhythmic substances with quinidine-like activity in the resurrection fern. This is the first report of a pharmacodynamic study of this attractive native fern. Botanically, it isidentified...

Intervascular pit membranes with tori in wood of Planera aquatica J.F.Gmel.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Pit membranes with thickenings known as tori have been located in pit pairs of water-conducting cells in the wood of Planera aquatica. The tori are best developed in latewood conducting cells. In general, tori appear wider than...

New records of Alabama fishes.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION On recent field trips through the upper Mobile River basin, we recorded range extensions for six species of fishes. These records were shared at the 2003 meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science at Jacksonville State...

The effect of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 on untreated and CD34-selected umbilical cord blood.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The bone morphogenetic proteins or BMP's comprise a growing family of more than fifteen proteins. The term BMP was coined by Marshall R. Urist nearly 30 years ago after observing heterotopic or extraskeletal bone formation...

Distribution and occurrence of selected pesticides in urban and agricultural areas: a comparison between central Alabama and national data sets.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... The editor regrets that the paper by James L. Robinson, "Distribution and Occurrence of Selected Pesticides in Urban and Agricultural Areas: A Comparison Between Central Alabama and National Data Sets" published in the Vol. 74, Nos. 3/4,...

Human Embryonic Stem Cells: the Biology and Ethics behind the Debate.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, S. Holland, K. Lebacqz, and L. Zoloth, eds, 141pp. plus glossary and index, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2001. Among the most passionately debated and controversial...

The bioethics of individual human identity: cloning and the potential erasure of the human fingerprint.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Human Cloning and Human Dignity:The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman, 350 pp. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2002. In the 1932 novel, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley imagined a future when...

The future of happiness.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Science of Happiness, Stephen Braun. 161 pp. plus bibliography and index, New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Steven Braun's preface to The Science of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Mood challenges readers to ask whether...