Five Agents

A number of agents have been used to modify the disease course of MS. This chapter will focus on the five agents that have an indication for use in MS subcutaneous interferon beta la (Rebif) intramuscular interferon beta la (Avonex) interferon... 

In addition to the agents detailed in this handbook, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) identifies in its Declaration Handbook 2002 for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction another five agents in this class. However, there is no information available in the unclassified literature concerning the physical, chemical, or toxicological properties of these additional agents. 

The potential ocular hypotensive effects of P-adrenoceptor antagonists (P-blockers) were first evaluated in the 1970s. This section highlights five agents currently marketed in the United States timolol, levobunolol, betaxolol, metipranolol, and carteolol (Table 10-1). 

Much attention is devoted in the Taiqing texts to the rules that determine the choice of time to start the retirement. All these rules are based on calendri-cal taboos, and many of them specifically on the auspicious and inauspicious relations that occur among the Five Agents (wuxing), the Celestial Stems... 

In terms of the Five Agents, the alchemical process inverts the standard generative (xiangsheng) sequence of the Agents (Wood-Fire-Earth-Metal-Water), and produces Metal (—) from Water (EE), and Wood... 

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