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The highly talented child.

either before or during the period of immunosuppression does not necessarily confer protection. This is illustrated by two of our patients. Case reports Case 1. A boy, aged 3 years 5 months, first presented with a history of a progressive petechial rash. Physical examination showed pallor, bruising, and hepatosplenomegaly. A bone marrow aspirate confirmed a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leuk...

The talented interferon-gamma

IFN-γ is an extraordinarily pleotropic cytokine. It can not only heighten both the innate and adaptive immune response against pathogens and tumors, but also has the ability to maintain immune homeostasis. Since the effects of IFN-γ are cell and tissue specific, it is important to consider the recent advances in IFN-γ signaling in the context of different diseases. To this end, we review the in...

Talented Imbeciles

The differential diagnosis of the type of feeblemindedness known as imbecility is by no means an artisan's job. No foot rule, scale, or point system has been devised or will ever be devised that will relieve the clinician of long, patient, and discriminating analysis in arriving at a diagnosis. An individual may be diagnosed or classified as an imbecile on the mental scale, on the intellectual ...

Contrasting influences of the organizer and induction concepts on the scientific activity of French embryologists.

Unlike biologists from several European countries, most French embryologists did not work from the onset on problems associated with the Spemann-Mangold organizer, though they were fully aware of the importance of the discovery. They preferred to stay on other original topics, but their later work was of course influenced by the induction concepts. The exploration of secondary inductions in var...

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