User:Uthbrian
Presently, I'm a pharmacist living in Texas.
I've been contributing since November 2005.
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I participate in the following projects:
Personal Info
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=Areas of personal interest=
- Evaluation
- Observation & Perception
- Science
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology
- Neuroscience
- 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
- Philosophy
- Altruism
- Eudaimonism
- Self (philosophy)
- Personal development
- Self-actualization
- Simple living
- Gardening
- Composting
- Food miles & Local food
- Organic farming & Organic gardening
- Permaculture
- Urban agriculture
- Renewable energy
- Sustainability (:Category:Sustainability)
- Transhumanism
- Psychology
- Cognition
- Learning
- Reasoning
- Flow (psychology)
- Humanistic psychology
- Positive psychology
- Systems thinking
- Value (personal and cultural)
- Common good
- Virtue
- Happiness
- Phronesis, Prudence & Wisdom
=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
Contributions of interest
=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
=Major=
- Categorization of many Birth control methods into:
- Barrier contraception
- Chemical contraception
- Surgical contraception
- 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
=New Pages=
Barnstar
Image:Exceptional newcomer.jpg 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)]]
