Pompéi. Boutique VII 4, 26

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The clinical relevance: The assessment of the antigenicity of an injectable molecule for the human organism requires human patient sera due to the inherent variability of antibodies from person to person, and the inherent variation of bioactivity of antibodies within a single individual. Antibodies produced experimentally in animals give little information with regard to clinical effects of the...

Nefro - 26-4 - MIOLO.indd

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disorder of unknown aetiology typically affecting the lungs and lymph nodes. Less frequently, the kidneys may also be affected. Postmortem analysis suggests that 20 percent of patients have histologic changes in the kidney. However, clinical involvement of the kidney is a relatively uncommon condition. Renal failure may occur associated with hypercal...

Sports Science vs “Boutique Medicine”

T he practice of sports medicine in 2011 is fascinating. The advancement of disciplines like tissue engineering has expanded our armamentarium tremendously. Along with the typical orthopaedic toolbox of metal plates, rods, methylmethacrylate, and polyethylene comes synthetic membranes, biologic scaffolds, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), and stem cell treatments. To some extent, we can already biolo...

College Voice Vol. 26 No. 4

Exploring synthetic immunity: From boutique to global

With a father who was a research scientist and a mother who was a nurse, one would think a career in biomedical research may have been pre-ordained. However, growing up in the Apollo era, I had visions of NASA astronauts and astronomers on my mind. My early introduction to the research laboratory started in 1978 when I worked summers at the Wistar Institute while still in high school. It seemed...