Vagaries of thought

Vagaries of adipose tissue innervation.

ADIPOSE TISSUE DOES NOT SEEM to be innervated in any significant manner by the vagus nerve after all. As reported by Giordano et al. (9) in this issue, retrograde tracing with pseudorabies virus from at least one fat pad in the Siberian hamster reveals only the occasional neuron in the vagal motor nucleus and nerve fibers in adipose tissue of mouse, rat, and hamster do not exhibit any of the ma...

Vagaries of the molecular clock.

The hypothesis of the molecular evolutionary clock asserts that informational macromolecules (i.e., proteins and nucleic acids) evolve at rates that are constant through time and for different lineages. The clock hypothesis has been extremely powerful for determining evolutionary events of the remote past for which the fossil and other evidence is lacking or insufficient. I review the evolution...

The vagaries of informed consent.

Surgery — Antiseptic Vagaries

a pointed stick of orange wood, and the hands scrubbed again; then they should be immersed successively iu solutions of permanganate of potash, oxalic acid, and peroxide of hydrogen; finally, they should be soaked in corrosive sublimate and rinsed with boiled water." Another class of enthusiasts revel in antiseptic polypharmacy. The following (from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin for May ...

Vagaries of acceleration dependent aberration.

Correspondence to Dr Charles Fisch, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, 1111 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. The earliest electrocardiogram illustrating bizarre intraventricular conduction of supraventricular impulses was published by Sir Thomas Lewis in 1910.' In a subsequent communication Lewis labelled this form of abnormal conduction "aberration" and the ventricular complexes ...