![]() ![]() Therefore, the active phytochemicals identified in A. muricata extract in downregulating anti -apoptotic and several genes involved in the pro-cancer metabolic pathways and decreasing the expression of proteins involved in cell invasion and metastasis while upregulating proapoptotic genes and genes involved in the destruction of cancer cells. Additionally, this review highlights the molecular mechanism of the role of A. muricata extract against various types of cancer, modulation of cellular proliferation and necrosis, and bioactive metabolites responsible for various pharmacological activities along with their ethnomedicinal uses. ![]() The most prevalent phytochemical components identified and isolated from this plant are alkaloids, phenols, and acetogenins. muricata has been identified to have promising compounds that could potentially be utilized for the treatment of cancer. Annona muricata is a member of the family Annonaceae and is familiar for its medicinal properties. Medicinal plants are universally acknowledged as the cornerstone of preventative medicine and therapeutic practices. Consequently, patients are looking for alternatives to traditional cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy as a replacement. ![]() The ongoing rise in the number of cancer cases raises concerns regarding the efficacy of the various treatment methods that are currently available. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They said that I should be proud of who I was, and they weren’t wrong, but they were so angry about it that I knew I should keep my worries to myself. But my parents refused to let me change my name. I have always envied Asian kids whose parents let them change their names or have separate “American” names. “You know what your name looks like, right? Did your parents really name you that?” “How do you spell that?” Sometimes they would laugh in my face. A name like Bich (pronounced “Bic”) didn’t just make me stand out-it made me miserably visible. When my family named me, they didn’t know that we would become refugees eight months later and that I would grow up in Michigan in the nineteen-eighties, in the conservative, mostly white, west side of the state, where girls had names like Jennifer, Amy, and Stacy. Some insisted that they liked it: Bich, a Vietnamese name, given to me in Saigon, where I was born and where the name is quite ordinary. People have always told me not to change my name. ![]() ![]() ![]() The spice was very explosive and when you hear it rather than read it, it’s panty melting good □□ I can’t wait to read the next book. It was like foreplay before the main event which turns our to be a bitch of a cliffy ending □ thankfully I can just go on to listen to the next book □□ The plot was fast paced and kept your attention, needing to know what was going to happen next. The plot was soooo good with a few twists and turns. She was born and raised in the Land of the Long White Cloud (New Zealand) but now lives in Australia with her husband, babies and furbaby. Archer D’Ath and his boys messed with the wrong chick and they’re about to learn just how cold Madison Kate’s hate can run. They really did bring this story to life and had me feeling like I could see everything that happened. Tate James is a USA Today Bestselling Author of Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy and sometimes dabbles in Romantic Suspense. Read Book Hate (Madison Kate, 1)Tate James. I don’t normally listen to audio books this fast as I only tend to listen when I’m doing something but this story has me gripped I just had to listen even when I was doing nothing. ![]() ![]() The narrators are sooooooo good they had me hooked from the beginning. ![]() I mean it is Tate’s writing so it was going to be freaking good anyway □ I listened to the audio version and holy sh!t did that make the story 1000x better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot took a while to get going as we’re slowly introduced to the characters over time. Luckily, Dash is one of those people and a connection soon forms between them with attraction high sparking. Unfortunately, these things register with other magic users and he’s soon on their radar. Jazz is a shifter but is experiencing some unexplained things that he has no idea about. There are relevant pop culture references, YA emotions and thoughts run riot throughout the story from both Jazz and occasionally, Dash. Hidden Powers introduces us to a group of super-ordinary young adults that come together under seemingly normal circumstances but become a part of something far bigger.Ī story that from the start, you can tell is from the POV of an eighteen-year-old. Member of The Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She decides to show Rothschild that she's no typical London wallflower. He wants August, and he always gets what he wants.īut August won't go peacefully to her fate. But after meeting her fiery sister, he realizes Violet isn't the heiress he wants. He's recently inherited the title only to find his coffers empty, and with countless lives depending on him, he can't walk away from the fortune a Crenshaw heiress would bring him. ![]() ![]() August refuses to leave her sister to the mercy of a loveless marriage.Įvan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, has no intention of walking away from the marriage. When it's clear that August's outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitable for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead. But unlike her peers, it isn't some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger-it's Crenshaw Iron Works, the family business. Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can't buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society-for that you need a marriage of convenience.Īmerican heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Moving to America, suddenly I felt so removed from everyone I cared about, and writing was the only way I knew to cross the ocean, to shorten the distance," he said. Although he had been writing in Bulgarian, it took some convincing from one of his professors for him to continue in English. Penkov moved from Bulgaria to America in 2001, at the age of 18, to study at the University of Arkansas. ![]() It's a very sprawling story, in which I tried to show myself how to take life's losses and not view them as punishments but as something liberating, and ultimately leading to freedom." "I used this as the basis for the story, but I wanted to inject my own life into it, myself, abroad in America and in many ways alone, with a huge body of water between me and the people I love. ![]() Every five years they would hold a reunion allowed by both governments, because 70 years ago they were one village – part of Bulgaria," said Penkov. "Years ago I read a newspaper article about two villages, one in Bulgaria, one over the border in Serbia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, 27 years later, the program came to an abrupt halt when President Nixon declared that "the United States will renounce the use of any form of deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate." What happened in those intervening years? A new "American Experience" documentary, "The Living Weapon," offers a look at more than two decades of closed-door meetings, secret tests, determined scientists and human subjects that attempted to turn some of the world's most potent germs into some of the world's most effective weapons. down a path to develop a new weapon of mass destruction. ![]() In 1942, the United States began a highly classified program to research and develop bioweapons, its first in a series of steps that took the U.S. For their musical edition, Webb and Sessler count down the best video-game soundtracks of all time - while joined by the X-Play Dancers in performances of five original songs, including "The Devil Went Down to X-Play" and "A Game is Born." The whole song-and-dance airs 8 p.m. Shades of "Dreamgirls" and "Ray"! In the grand tradition of backstage musicals and show-biz biopics, cable's G4 network presents "X-Play: The Musical." Billed as the most expensive musical about video games in the history of mass entertainment, this cast-of-dozens extravaganza offers a fresh twist on the network's "X-Play," which for three years has reviewed and explored video games through the eyes of co-hosts Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until grimoires and magical texts started circulating online, the gloamists were relatively secret, hiding their work for centuries. Shadow magic only recently became common knowledge, because, of course, the internet. She bartends at a seedy club, but her old life still lingers in the periphery-she is never far from the world of the gloamists, magicians with sentient shadows that can do their bidding. Twenty years later (which feels fantasy-level surreal to say), I got to delve back into the world of magic and mundane with Black’s first adult novel, Book of Night.Ĭharlie Hall has a talent for trouble she is a skilled thief and con-artist, but a string of bad decisions and terrible relationships have led her to leave her life of crime. It was my first foray into urban fantasy. The story of a changeling girl living in modern suburban New Jersey and rediscovering the world of fairies that she came from sucked me in, and I have never forgotten the feeling of grit and teen angst and dark magic. I was 13 years old when I first read Tithe, Holly Black’s first novel. ![]() In our Book of Night book review, we venture into a world of shadows and murder with a gutsy con-artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More rugged, well-worn, sometimes fun, always practical. Not too old, and certainly not showroom-pretty by any means. ![]() A sturdy Jeep 4×4, a few dents and scratches. Was my car reflective of me? As much as I wished otherwise-yeah, it was. Just like its owner.Īnd although it still ran well, although it was still reliable, it was getting on in miles, years. Not a scratch, not a dent, not a thing out of place. Like its owner, Dr Fields, it was gray in color and in impeccable condition. I always thought a person’s car was reflective of its owner, and as I opened the passenger door of the late ’80s Ford Taurus and got in, I smiled to myself. After the death of his guide dog and best friend, Rosie, his partnership with his new guide dog, Brady, isn’t going well.Ĭarter tries to help both man and canine through this initiation phase, but just who is leading who? Excerpt: Starting a new job in a new town, veterinarian Carter Reece, makes a house call to a very special client.Īrrogant, moody and totally gorgeous, Isaac Brannigan has been blind since he was eight. The first in the series, Blind Faith, introduces us to Isaac Brannigan and Carter Reece, and Brady, of course.īlind Faith Series is now only available on Amazon and is part of the Kindle Unlimited program. The Blind Faith series has three books Blind Faith, Through These Eyes and Blindside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her rural town, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the locals. ![]() ![]() Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. In this gripping suspense debut, the first female sheriff of a small mountain village investigates a disappearance that echoes the crimes that shattered her town decades before.įor twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. “I’m the only one who knows what happened to those girls…” Thrilled to have the International Thriller Writer Debut Author Program’s Debbie Babitt on my blog today, talking about her debut novel. ![]() |