Identification of a Human Skeleton

Identification of a membrane skeleton in platelets

Platelets have previously been shown to contain actin filaments that are linked, through actin-binding protein, to the glycoprotein (GP) Ib-IX complex, GP Ia, GP IIa, and an unidentified GP of Mr 250,000 on the plasma membrane. The objective of the present study was to use a morphological approach to examine the distribution of these membrane-bound filaments within platelets. Preliminary experi...

A Skeleton of the Human Protein Interactome

In this issue of Cell, Wanker and colleagues (Stelzl et al., 2005) present a large-scale two-hybrid map of more than 3000 putative human protein-protein interactions. These new data will serve as an important source of information regarding individual protein partners and offer preliminary insight into the global molecular organization of human cells.

Identification of a skeleton and timing of death months later.

The Human Skeleton

"current treatment" provides 26 references, of which only two were published in 1983, and the others, earlier still. Overall, this is a succinctly written, well-organized treatise of relevance to clinicians interested in the diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment of coronary artery spasm. It could inspire an interest in the subject by students at all levels, as well as serving as an adequate...

Skeleton Simplification by Key Points Identification

The current skeletonisation algorithms, based on thinning, extract the morphological features of an object in an image but the skeletonized objects are coarsely presented. This paper proposes an algorithm which goes beyond that approach by changing the coarse line segments into perfect “straight” line segments, obtaining points, angles, line segment size and proportions. Our technique is applie...