Loreley. An Unfinished Opera

Complement: an unfinished symphony.

THE AUTHORS [Weiss et al. (10)] addressed the role of complement in hypertensive mice infused with ANG II and with NaCl in the drinking water. The complement focus was on C5aR1 cells that also expressed green fluorescent protein (GFP). The authors found GFP cells in interstitial areas of both heart and kidneys. These infiltrating cells were CD45 , indicating their origin from the bone marrow. Q...

Liver transplantation: an unfinished product.

Liver transplantation has become an extraordinarily valuable and useful operation, but one that is not perfect and that has not been exploited to anything like its full potential. Better immunosuppression may become available soon as exemplified by developments with the Japanese drug, FK506. Improved preservation with the UW solution is already here. With these advantages, liver transplantation...

Benzodiazepine withdrawal: an unfinished story.

"'I am 39 years old, married, with two children aged 18 years and 14 years. The younger was a very active baby, and when he was 18 months old I mentioned to the doctor that he was sleeping very little and though he did not seem tired in any way, I certainly was! After a course of vitamins I still felt worn out and this was when I was first prescribed Valium. "This was 1971; I was then 27 years ...

Starting Afresh: An Unfinished History

The patient is a factory programme engineer, on duty as a Lieutenant Commander R.N.R., who at the age of 41 was serving his annual training in H.M.S. Venturer, which called at Oporto, Portugal. He had apparently intended to stay aboard on 17th August, 1965, but two officers of H.M.S. Thames alongside had hired a self-drive car and offered him the front passenger seat, which he accepted. The car...

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