Abstract: A computer implemented method is provided for implementing user centric advertising and multiuser communication. The method includes providing a communication interface between advertiser devices, user devices and publisher devices, receiving advertiser preferences from the user devices, matching the preferences with advertisements from the advertiser devices and displaying the matched advertisements on a portal. The method also includes providing functionality for conducting two way communication between select user devices and advertiser devices, and conducting e-commerce transactions. The method also including a social exchange platform with functionality for user to user communication.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with one or more of the following plants: Paullinia cupana (Sapindaceae), Croton moritibensis (Euphorbiaceae) and Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae) in the treatment, reversion, combat and/or prevention of ventricular fibrillation. A product particularly embraced by the present invention comprises the plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with extracts from other plants. The invention also refers to the use of one or more fractions of plant extract from such plant material, particularly of Trichilia catigua A. Juss, and of one or more subfractions of said fractions in the treatment, combat, prevention and/or reversion of ventricular fibrillation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the effects of the epimeric mixture of cinchonains Ia and Ib on pathologies that involve alterations in the cardiovascular system, essentially in combating, preventing and reverting ventricular fibrillation in human beings and animals, especially for combating spontaneous or electric-stimulus-induced ventricular fibrillation, to revert spontaneous or electric-stimulus-induced ventricular fibrillations, for preventing ventricular fibrillation, for the treatment of ventricular fibrillation of any etiology or for the treatment of post-fibrillation to maintain normal cardiac rhythm. The present invention further relates to methods for the synthesis of an epimeric mixture of the chemical substances cinchonain Ia and Ib. The present invention also relates to the use of these chemical substances in reverting/combating ventricular fibrillation and/or in protecting against ventricular fibrillation.

Abstract: The use of a plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with one or more of the following plants: Paullinia cupana (Sapindaceae), Croton moritibensis (Euphorbiaceae) and Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae) in the treatment, reversion, combat and/or prevention of ventricular fibrillation. A product particularly embraced by the present invention comprises the plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with extracts from other plants. The use of one or more fractions of plant extract from such plant material, particularly of Trichilia catigua A. Juss, and of one or more subfractions of said fractions in the treatment, combat, prevention and/or reversion of ventricular fibrillation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with one or more of the following plants: Paullinia cupana (Sapindaceae), Croton moritibensis (Euphorbiaceae) and Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae) in the treatment, reversion, combat and/or prevention of ventricular fibrillation. A product particularly embraced by the present invention comprises the plant material of the species Trichilia sp., alone or in association with extracts from other plants. The invention also refers to the use of one or more fractions of plant extract from such plant material, particularly of Trichilia catigua A. Juss, and of one or more subfractions of said fractions in the treatment, combat, prevention and/or reversion of ventricular fibrillation.

Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a potassium channel stress-related protein (PCSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PCSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding PCSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing PCSRP, methods of identifying novel PCSRP using antibodies, and methods of modifying the expression of PCSRP in plants.