Markers or Makers

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

Statins: antimicrobial resistance breakers or makers?

INTRODUCTION The repurposing of non-antibiotic drugs as adjuvant antibiotics may help break antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Statins are commonly prescribed worldwide to lower cholesterol. They also possess qualities of AMR "breakers", namely direct antibacterial activity, synergism with antibiotics, and ability to stimulate the host immune system. However, statins' role as AMR breakers may be l...

Right Decisions or Happy Decision-makers?

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Adipose tissue lymphocytes and macrophages in obesity and insulin resistance: makers or markers, and which comes first?

Obesity, and more specifically accumulation of adipose tissue in the visceral and subcutaneous abdominal locations, is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular pathologies including hypertension and atherosclerosis, as well as metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. During recent years, “metaflammation” or metabolically-triggered inflammation1 has emerged as a key process ...

Truth - Makers

During the realist revival in the early years of this century, philosophers of various persuasions were concerned to investigate the ontology of truth. That is, whether or not they viewed truth as a correspondence, they were interested in the extent to which one needed to assume the existence of entities serving some role in accounting for the truth of sentences. Certain of these entities, such...