User:Uthbrian

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Presently, I'm a pharmacist living in Texas. Before receiving my Doctor of Pharmacy, I graduated from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, received a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin, and did a minor stint as a graduate student in Neuroscience at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

I've been contributing since November 2005.

I participate in the following projects:

Things to do:

Elaborate more on Drug interaction
Elaborate more on Rebound hypertension
Consider what to do with List of types of proteins
Expand articles in Category:Pharmacology stubs

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Uthbrian

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[edit] Areas of personal interest

Evaluation
- Observation & Perception
- Science
  - Biology
  - Health
    - Exercise
      - Active Living
      - Walking
    - Gerontology
      - Life extension
      - Senescence
    - Nutrition
      - Calorie restriction
      - Dietary supplements
      - Food
        
        Cooking
        
        Spices (particularly with regard to medicinal properties)
    - Pharmacy
      - Nootropics
      - Pharmacology (stubs)
  - Scientific method
    - Experiment & Self-experimentation
  - Technology
    - Innovation
- Thought
- Value (personal and cultural)
  - Common good
  - Virtue
    - Happiness
    - Phronesis, Prudence & Wisdom

[edit] Interesting pages

Category:Notable Wikipedians
Active Living
Autodidacticism
Choice blindness, Choice-supportive bias
Creativity techniques
Excellence, Arete (excellence)
McMansion
Nicholas Roerich - A painter whose work is referenced in At the Mountains of Madness
Self-awareness, Self-consciousness
Small-world network

[edit] Humorous edits

[edit] Contributions of interest

All of my contributions

[edit] Minor

ACE inhibitor - added section on combination therapy with ARBs
Cinnamon - described confusion with Cassia with regard to health benefits
Clavulanic acid - restructured article
Life extension - wikified, added content
Licorice - more info about risks of glycyrrhizinic acid
Melatonin - info about antioxidant effects
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug - wrote section on use in pregnancy
Noscapine - wrote about mechanism of action
Oregano - added health benefits
Selenium - specified enzymes
Ventricular remodeling - wikified

[edit] Major

Categorization of many Birth control methods into:
Categorization of many Drugs

Specific articles:

Absorption (Pharmacokinetics) - added a lot of info
Acanthamoeba - formatted article, added info about its ability to spread MRSA
Alpha blocker - added much information
Anti-obesity drug - restructured, add information
Beta-lactam antibiotic - added information on resistance
Bile acid sequestrant - added much info to stub
Blood pressure - added section regarding its endogenous regulation
Condom - clarify changes, add information
Contact explosive - add info
Cosmeceutical - add info
Ferulic acid - major rewrite
Folic acid - restructured
Glucomannan - rewrite with much clinically-relevant information
HT-0712 (an experimental nootropic) - added more information
Interface (chemistry) - added information to this stub
Mentadent - added much information
Methyl salicylate - restructured
Multivitamin - restructured
Neuromuscular-blocking drugs - major rewrite, added much content
Parsley - clarify mechanism of action on diuretic effct, potential health concerns
Pepsin - cleaned up article, discussed zymogen activation
Phentermine - restructured
Phosphate binders - added mechanism of action, adverse effects
Phosphoenolpyruvate - added much biochemical information
Piperine - add information about effects on drug metabolism
Plant nutrition - added biochemical information about the different nutrients
Postherpetic neuralgia - restructured
Sunflower seed - restructured
Triclosan - restructured, added mechanism of action

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[edit] Barnstar

On behalf of the Wikipedia community, this Exceptional Newcomer Award is hereby presented to Uthbrian for his enthusiastic work on pharmacology and medication articles and displaying skill, and boldness in doing so. Keep up the good work! JFW 16:18, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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