Withering, William

BUDDINGTON R K, WILLIAMS 0 H, CHEN s-c, wiTHERLY, s T (1996) Dietary Supplement of neosuger alters the fecal flora and decreases activities of some reductive enzymes in human subjects. J Clin Nutr. 63 709-16. 

Withers H, Swift S, Williams P (2001) Curr Opin Microbiol 4 186... 

In the late 1700s, William Withering introduced digitalis, an extract from the plant foxglove, for treatment of cardiac problems. 

Although 200 years of clinical experience has been gained since William Withering published his Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its... 

V. Notenboom, S. J. Williams, R. Hoos, S. G. Withers, and D. R. Rose, Detailed structural analysis of glycosidase/inhibitor interactions Complexes of Cex from Cellulomonas fimi with xylobiose-derived aza-sugars, Biochemistry, 39 (2000) 11553—11563. 

S. Williams, R. Hoos, and S. G. Withers, Nanomolar versus millimolar inhibition by xylobiose-... 

T. M. Gloster, S. J. Williams, S. Roberts, C. A. Tarling, J. Wicki, S. G. Withers, and G. J. Davies, Atomic resolution analyses of the binding of xylobiose-derived deoxynojirimycin and isofagomine to xylanase XynlOA, Chem. Commun. (2004) 1794—1795. 

Mann RD, Townsend H, Townsend J. William Withering and the Foxglove. Lancaster MTP Press (Kluwer) 1985. 

Cardiac steroids, or cardenoUdes, are steroid glycosides. Their effect has been known since the time of the ancient Egyptians. In more recent times, the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and its effect were described in 1785 by William Withering, who knew of its use in folk medicine. 

The cardiac glycosides are mainly obtained from plants e.g. digitalis, stropanthus and squill species and also present in certain other plants and animals. In 1776, William Withering, a Birmingham... 

Cole A (1965) The study of radiosensitive structures with low voltage electron beams. In Cellular radiation biology, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, pp 267-271 Cole A, Meyn RE, Chen R, Corry PM, Hittelman W (1980) Mechanisms of cell injury. In Meyn RE, Withers HR (eds) Radiation biology in cancer research, pp 33-58 Coleman CN, Bump EA, Kramer RA (1988) Chemical modifiers of cancer treatment. J Clin Oncol 6 709-733... 

William Withering, an English physician with a strong interest in botany, was the first to introduce the diuretic digitalis (from the foxglove plant Digitalis purpurea) into common medical practice for the treatment... 

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