May 4, 1875

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri (West), Mumbai D Schweitzer was a French-German scholar, born in Kaysersberg, Alsace; a s ickly chi ld , in contrast to h is la ter extraordinary robustness. Without doubt, he was a great and multiface...

Studies on bacteria 1875

endeavored, in association with my friend Herr Oberstabsarzt Dr. Schroeter, to study bacteria with the aid of the more perfect optical systems now available to us. Since Schroeter left this plant physiological institute in the summer of 1870, I have carried on these studies alone. I have first attempted to discover the biological relationships of the bacteria as well as to arrive at a decision ...

Op-brai150105 1875..1893

Remyelination failure plays an important role in the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis, but the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. We now report actively demyelinating lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis are associated with increased glial expression of fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9), which we demonstrate inhibits myelination and remyelination ...

Sunday May 4

An altered pattern of epigenetic modifications is central to many common human diseases, including cancer. Many studies have explored the mosaic patterns of DNA methylation and histone modifications in cancer cells on a gene-by-gene basis, among them the seminal finding of transcriptional silencing of tumor suppressor genes by CpG island promoter hypermethylation. Epigenetic gene inactivation i...

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