Besieged nature

Thrombosis – Besieged but Poorly Understood

In biology, thrombosis is a mechanism of maintaining the integrity of biological surfaces in higher mammals, limiting fluid loss, and facilitating the recognition, containment, and destruction of pathogens and foreign materials by a scaffold of fibrin and DNA strands. However, thrombosis may also lead to vascular occlusion and subsequent tissue damage. In medicine, thrombosis is a hallmark of l...

New York besieged: 11 September and after.

E pidemiologists all over the world have been good enough to express their concerns and worries about how we, and other friends and colleagues in New York, fared in the terror provoked on 11 September. This annotation responds to the editors' invitation that we convey something from our vantage point. We welcomed their interest. The experience is, so far, unique in history. Our account is perso...

Branded, Bombarded and Besieged: Advertising Exposure and the "Average" Consumer

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Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City

13. Mollaret H. Conservation du bacille de la peste durant 28 mois en terrier arti? ciel: demonstration experimentale de la conservation interepizootique de las peste dans ses foyers inveteres. CR Acad Sci Paris. 1968;267:972–3. 14. Mollaret HH. Experimental preservation of plague in soil [in French]. Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1963;56:1168–82. 15. Chu MC. Laboratory manual of plague diagno...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?