The goal of Oriental diagnosis is to find unity of body, mind, and spirit. It emphasizes that everyone has strengths and weaknesses and that accommodating one1s weaknesses is as important as utilizing one1s strengths. Here, Ohashi, helps you learn how to 3read your body2 to determine both your physical and spiritual condition as revealed in the physical self. Your posture, your features, and the texture of your skin can tell you who you are. Filled with diagrams, drawings, and sample diagnoses, this is not only a practical guidebook -- by 3reading the body2 one can tell what shiatsu techniques to apply to the various energy meridians of the body -- but also a fascinating meditation on how to live.
This brief describes studies conducted by the authors on mid-size drugs utilizing peptides and peptidomimetics, and on the development of anti-HIV agents. Peptides are important biological molecules and have various physiological actions. Peptide-based drug discovery may help bring about the development of useful medicines that are highly safe and show potent pharmacological effects in small doses. Recently, it has been shown that there is an important drug-like space in the mid-sized region between low- and high-molecular-weight compounds. Thus, mid-size drugs such as peptide compounds are being focused on. To date, several peptidomimetics that mimic primary, secondary, and tertiary structures of peptides have been developed to maintain and improve biological activities and actions of peptides. In this book, the features and advantages of mid-size drugs are described in detail. In addition, the merits of utilizing peptidomimetics in the development of mid-size drugs are referred to. Understanding such peptide-derived mid-size drugs will lead to a comprehensive expansion of medicinal chemistry.
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