Marjoram is a perennial herb in the mint family that grows wild in the Mediterranean region. It is used primarily as seasoning in cooked dishes but is also found in beauty and health care products. Often mistaken for oregano, marjoram is frequently called by many different names, including sweet marjoram, knotted marjoram, joy of the mountains, and wintersweet.
The structure of paclitaxel, a widely used mitotic inhibitor. A mitotic inhibitor is a drug that inhibits mitosis, or cell division. These drugs disrupt microtubules, which are structures that pull the cell apart when it divides. Mitotic inhibitors are used in cancer treatment, because cancer cells are able to grow and eventually spread through the body (metastasize) through continuous mitotic division.
Inhibitors are drugs that work by forming an enzyme-inhibitor complex, which impedes the ability of the enzyme-substrate complex to form. The most successful treatments for HIV have resulted from using inhibitors for the two enzymes reverse transcriptase (step 3 above) and protease (step 7 above).his class of drug acts by inhibiting protease, the enzyme required by HIV to cut its protein into the proper segments to assemble new viral particles. Protease inhibitors, used in combination with two reverse transcriptase inhibitors, have proven to be quite successful.