Rasā’il. Ss. la dir. d’al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī et al-Sayyid Mahdī al-Rajā’ī, Beyrouth, Mu’assasat al-Nūr li l-Maṭbū‘āt, 1998, 3 vol., 457 + 402 + 368 p.

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

10.1 The forbidden experiment Language and culture separate humans from all other species. No human group lacks either, which must mean that both are deeply seated in human nature. What are the essential ingredients of these two most human of attributes? Our central task as linguists is to try to answer this question for language. One strategy for tackling this problem is to trace all existing ...

Kitāb al-shukūk `alā Jālīnūs li-l-tabīb al-faylasūf Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

Reply to R.L. Bowen et al, M. Froehner et al, J.L. Leow et al, and C. Brady et al.

Regarding our article on the association of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, Bowen et al, Froehner and Wirth, Leow et al, and Brady et al highlight a number of significant considerations that will prove important in the design of future studies that investigate the association of ADT and Alzheimer’s disease. We agree with Bowen et al and Leow et al tha...

Dave et al al JBCsecondrev wfigures

Snail1 and Zeb1 are E-cadherin-transcriptional repressors induced during epithelialmesenchymal-transition (EMT). In this article we have analyzed the factors controlling Zeb1 expression during EMT. In NMuMG cells treated with TGF-β, Snail1 RNA and protein are induced one hour after addition of the cytokine preceeding Zeb1 up-regulation that requires six to eight hours. Zeb1 gene expression is c...

In Response to Murphy et al., Löwer et al., and Lan et al