Telémaco Battistini Sánchez (1985-1960)

Some topics of current interest in clustering : Russian approaches 1960 - 1985

Early developments in data analysis in Russia, and in the Soviet Union in general have been well separated by the rather tight iron curtain through all of the covered period. However, they generally followed the international developments, because some monographs were translated into Russian, best journals reached a few libraries with a lag of one-two years, and a few Soviet scientists did atte...

Cardiac pacing, 1960-1985: a quarter century of medical and industrial innovation.

Eugene Braunwald 1 has compared the intense activity in cardiology between 1950 and 1990 to the systolic phase of the heartbeat. In the present paper, we discuss one important aspect of the broader transformation of cardiovascular medicine: the development of pacemaker technology to treat bradyarrhythmias. (Tachypacing and the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, innovations of the 1980s, ar...

Muñoz - Silva , Manuel Sánchez - García , Ana Martins , Cristina Nunes

Marasmus - 1985

Dr Wilfred J. Pearson writing for the first volume of this Journal in 1925 defined marasmus (Greek: marasmos, wasting) as 'a chronic state of malnutrition of a severe grade' but pointed out that 'we must retain the conception ofcases varying in severity from those who simply show an insufficient gain or stationary weight with few systemic changes, to the most extreme form which is merely the en...

López - Holgado Miguel Alcoceba Luis Ignacio Sánchez - Abarca

The bone marrow stroma is a heterogeneous mixture of cells and extracellular matrix which provide both physical support and growth factors, as well as cytokines or chemokines for the regulation of hematopoiesis. These cells come from an immature progenitor cell termed the mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). Under specific in vitro conditions, MSC can give rise to bone, cartilage, adipose tissue or ske...