Scopolamine is a first-line medication for prevention of motion sickness and should be administered transdermally several hours before the anticipated motion exposure. First-generation antihistamines, although sedating, are also effective.
Mycolic acid. Mycolic acids are long fatty acids found in the cell walls of the mycolata taxon, a group of bacteria that includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of the disease tuberculosis. They form the major component of the cell wall of mycolata species.
Bacteria cell walls come in three varieties, gram +, gram - , and mycoplasmas. It would seem not all cell walls are created equally. The differences in what makes up the cell wall can be shown by a procedure called gram staining. The steps in the gram staining procedure are: 1. Bacteria are stuck to a slide 2. They are stained with a purple dye solution called crystal violet. 3. The purple dye is washed off with water 4.