Blasts from the past

Blasts from the past.

With this issue of the JCI, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Journal. While 80 years is not a century, we still feel it is important to honor what the JCI has meant to the biomedical research community for 8 decades. To illustrate why the JCI is the leading general-interest translational research journal edited by and for biomedical researchers, we have asked former JCI editors-in-chief...

The measurement technologies of thyrotropin receptor antibodies from the past to the present

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Receptor (TSH-R) autoantibodies are the main cause of Graveschr('39') disease and its external thyroid manifestations such as ophtalmopathy and dermatopathy. These antibodies are functionally different and are commonly called TSH receptor antibodies (TRAbs). In fact, TRAbs are a set of autoantibodies including TSHR-stimulating antibodies (TSAbs), TSHR- blocking antib...

Wisdom from the past

by P. Watson Williams, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Bristol Royal Infirmary. "The Northern African seaboard has long been recognised as a region which presents many and great attractions as a winter resort for sufferers from various affections of the chest, and which is, at the same time, easily accessible to Europeans. Certain regions, more especially Algiers, have long successfully compet...

Proteins from the past

Some fragments of ancient protein are less prone to degradation because they bind strongly to the surfaces of minerals.

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