Letters from Editor's Desk

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Letters to the editors.

Dear Sirs, In their letter Chatauret et al. [1] address an interesting issue: in hypothermic machine perfusion for kidney preservation we should have a better understanding of the machine effects versus solution effects. During the discussions concerning the study design the scientific steering committee also discussed which preservation solutions should be used. For more than 40 years, KPS-1 i...

Letters to the editors

To the Editors: In their recent publication, Swati S. Sathe and Peter J. Harte (Mech. Dev. 52,77-87, 1995) claim to have "reisolated' the extra sex combs (esc) gene of Drosophila from our published transgenic stock (Frei et aI., EMBO J. 4,979-987, 1985) by inverse PCR, using P element and rosy primers. This description is wrong because our published transgenic stock carried the esc trans gene w...

Letters to the Editors

We have to report (to our considerable embarrassment) a systematic error which has occurred in a series of papers that have appeared in the British Journal of Nutrition. The relevant papers and faults are shown separately. The mistakes arose as a consequence of a calculation error in the determination of blood flow in muscle. The method used was originally described by Pappenheimer & Setchell(l...

Letters to the Editors

Lunn & Austin (1983) proposed that the hypoalbuminaemia of protein deficiency results from ‘dysadaptation’ which in turn reflects the hyperthyroid state due to the excess dietary energy which follows the consumption of protein-deficient diets. In the protein-deficient rat there can be inverse changes between free and total triiodothyronine (T,) due to an increased binding capacity for T,, and p...