Prostacyclin analogs in clinical use in the United States include epoprostenol, iloprost and treprostinil. All three are used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe and progressive disease marked by vasoconstriction and smooth muscle cell proliferation of the pulmonary arterioles.
So next time you have your peas or corn remember that the former is a dicot while the latter is a monocot. Summary: 1.Monocots are single seeds while dicots seeds can be split into two halves. 2. The flowers of monocots have petals in multiples of three while dicot flowers have in multiples of 4 or 5.
The seed of a monocot is one unit.(corn). When idt sprouts it sends up a single leaf. The seed of a dicot usually breaks in two easily Peanuts, beans and Roses) The seed sends up a stem with two leaves. These first two leaves are called the cotyledon leaves.The next two leaves are called true leaves. That's about as many differentiations I can quickly recall to distinguish between monocots and dicots..here are several ways to distinguish between dicots and monocots. The leaves of monocots have veins that begin at the base of the leaf and end at the tip without any branching (Lilly family). The dicot's vein starts at the bottom and branches or nets all over the leaf.