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.
The type species is Sarcina ventriculi. [L. sarcina, a pack, bundle, fr. sarcio, to mend, patch]. /SarÂ·ciÂ·na/ (sahrÂ´sÄ­-nah) a genus of bacteria (family Micrococcaceae) found in soil and water as saprophytes. genus of nonmotile, strictly anaerobic bacteria containing gram-positive cocci, which divide in three perpendicular planes, producing regular packets of eight or more cells. Saprophytic and facultatively parasitic species occur. The type species is S. ventriculi.