The Magnificent Seventh

The Magnificent Seventh

Important publications describing the effects of cytokines in the nervous system are demanding increasing amounts of our attention these days. Consider, for example, the chemotactic cytokines or chemokines. These small proteins have been extensively studied because of their importance in regulating leukocyte migration and inflammation. Approximately 50 different chemokines have been shown to ex...

A magnificent time with the "magnificent seven" transmembrane spanning receptors.

A Magnificent Time With the ''Magnificent Seven'' Transmembrane Spanning Receptors Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright © 2003 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation Research doi: 10.1161/01.RES.0000061771.61280.B8 2003;92:342-344 Circ Res. http://circres.ahajou...

Paul Ehrlich's receptor immunology: the magnificent obsession

Although history of medicine is no longer devoted exclusively to great men and their research, they are still worth studying under certain circumstances, above all if they represent important scientific research strands and movements of their times. This is certainly true for the immunologist and bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), whose work had an impact on several areas within twentieth...

Common Heritage in Magnificent Desolation

One problem with the term "common heritage of mankind" is that it seems to have substantially different meanings to different people. To some it conjures a highly communistic vision of the proceeds from resource exploitation being monetarily distributed to every human being. The record of negotiation on the Moon Agreement shows that the Soviet Union was more jealous of its planetary prerogative...

Magnificent teamwork in response to Canterbury earthquake.