Introduction: Finding the Mother Lode in Milk

From mother duck to mother lode: clinical education for deep learning.

this lovely mixed metaphor had its origins in a recent presentation by Vicky Niederhauser (2009), who described the need to shift from the longstanding “mother duck” model of clinical education and humorously portrayed the great risks to the “baby-duckling” nursing students as their mother-duck faculty member attempts to lead them through a clinical day. and the “mother lode?” that refers to th...

Coronary sinus in the management of functional mitral regurgitation: the mother lode or fool's gold?

The past 5 years have seen the introduction into the preclinical arena of myriad devices for the potential treatment of functional and ischemic mitral regurgitation by a percutaneous approach.1 A number of the device concepts have taken advantage of the relatively easy access to the posterior annulus of the mitral valve provided by the coronary sinus. Although attractive on initial consideratio...

The mother lode of liver transplantation, with particular reference to our new journal.

Human Xq28 inversion polymorphism: From sex linkage to Genomics--A genetic mother lode.

An inversion polymorphism of the filamin and emerin genes at the tip of the long arm of the human X-chromosome serves as the basis of an investigative laboratory in which students learn something new about their own genomes. Long, nearly identical inverted repeats flanking the filamin and emerin genes illustrate how repetitive elements can lead to alterations in genome structure (inversions) th...

Milk: integrative signalling between mother and offspring.

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