Proinsulin, importance of C-peptide

A student of mine asked me about the usefulness of C-peptide in proinsulin, after some googling, I landed on this piece of information which seems to answer this question. The answer is in the last line. Proinsulin is synthesized as a single chain, 110 amino acid (aa) preproprecursor that contains a 24 aa signal sequence …

RU486

A common mistake regarding RU 486 is saying that it decreases the secretion of progesterone. RU 486 does not interfere with the secretion of progesterone. It is an antagonist of progesterone, which means that it simply blocks progesterone receptors and prevents progesterone from acting on its target cells without actually lowering its concentration in the …

Arabic text from mySQL database using amfphp

I had this issue where arabic text and french text retrieved from a mySQL database were not displaying correctly in my flash frontend, I was using amfphp to communicate and query the database. Needless to say that the text does display correctly in phpMyAdmin so it is correctly encoded in the database itself. So here’s …