Ebb and Tide of Glucokinase

Ebb and Tide of Glucokinase

his journal’s editors have asked me to comment on the paper in this issue by Jetton et al. entitled "Substrate induced nuclear export and peripheral compartmentalization of hepatic glucokinase correlates with glycogen deposition." The investigations of these authors exemplify the remarkable recent trend in studies of intermediary metabolism paying careful attention to the precise intracellular ...

Ebb tidings

who look for firm guidance on moral matters, and “at least some fire and brimstone to enliven our dreary public debates,” according to an opinion piece in one conservative British newspaper. But the paper welcomed his comments. “The Archbishop argues against the teaching of ‘creationism’ in schools. Yet he does so in a way that does not diminish the biblical story... As he puts it, the doctrine...

The ebb and flow of online learning

Past research has suggested that Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory describes a state that should be supportive of a student’s learning. This article reports on research that uses the constructs of flow to explore learning in an online environment. An experiment was carried out in which students worked through a learning sequence in the physics domain that had varying degrees of interactivity. Thei...

The flood and ebb of septic shock.

1 Suh JS, Aster RH, Visentin GP. Antibodies from patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia/thrombosis recognize different epitopes on heparin: platelet factor 4. Blood 1998; 91:916–922 2 Jang IK, Hursting MJ. When heparins promote thrombosis: review of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Circulation 2005; 11:2671–2683 3 Amiral J, Peynaud-Debayle E, Wolf M, et al. Generation of antibodies to ...

The ebb and flow of asthma.