Molecular mimicry and clonal deletion: A fresh look

Antigenic mimicry, clonal selection and autoimmunity.

The triggering of autoimmunity by infection or immunization is often blamed on antigenic mimicry. But the concept of antigen mimicry impinges on our understanding of adaptive immunity in general, and not only on autoimmunity. Here are some thoughts about the consequences of immune mimicry.

Fish Oil and Inflammation - A Fresh Look.

A fresh look at preoperative body washing

National guidelines do not support preoperative body washing to reduce surgical site infections, instead recommending bathing or showering with soap. Yet preoperative body washing continues to be widely used in many hospitals across Europe. This paper suggests that existing trials of preoperative body washing, upon which guidelines are based, are dated and proposes a new investigation of preope...

Hyperglycemia-induced hyponatremia: a fresh look.

that require Zn2t Zincon and the standard ZnSO4 solution were from J.T. Baker; Tris (THAM) and sodium tetraborate were Fisher Certified. The 2-amino-2methyl-1-propanol was from Sigma (pfs, lot No. 14C-3610) as were the Good’s buffers 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid (MES) and 2-[2-hydroxy-1,1bis(hydroxymethyl)ethyl]aminoethanesulfonic acid (TES). The other Good’s buffers, N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)...

A fresh look into pulsating PG1159 stars

To improve the understanding of the pulsational instabilities of some of the PG1159-type pre-white dwarfs we performed detailed stability analyses on helium star evolutionary models. With the canonical chemical compositions, pulsational instabilities were encountered for all stellar masses considered (0.57, 0.63, 0.7 M⊙). The blue boundary agrees satisfactorily with observations. The red edge, ...