Urocortin: A Few Inflammatory Remarks

Eyeing macular degeneration--few inflammatory remarks.

n engl j med 367;8 nejm.org august 23, 2012 768 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the world’s leading cause of the loss of central vision. It is usually classed as one of two forms: a dry form, characterized by the appearance of drusen (Fig. 1), which are proteinaceous collections at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium, and by atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium; and a wet...

A Few Remarks on Algorithmic Composition

A few remarks about symplectic filling

We show that any compact symplectic manifold (W,ω) with boundary embeds as a domain into a closed symplectic manifold, provided that there exists a contact plane ξ on ∂W which is weakly compatible with ω , i.e. the restriction ω|ξ does not vanish and the contact orientation of ∂W and its orientation as the boundary of the symplectic manifold W coincide. This result provides a useful tool for ne...

Ethyl Chloride: A Few Practical Remarks

When considering the use of ethyl chloride as a general anaesthetic one cannot help feeling surprised that the profession has not before this decided more definitely as to the safety and utility of the drug. But an explanation may probably be found in the great variety of methods used for its administration; for although it may be given by means of almost any of the ordinary anaesthetic apparat...

A Few Remarks On Topological Field Theory

Physics 695, Fall 2015. September 9, 2015. Version December 10, 2015