Wallace Alan Akers, 1888 - 1954

The anatomy department at University College, Dundee, 1888-1954.

IN JUNE 1970 the part of the old Medical School building which housed the Department of Anatomy was badly damaged by fire. In the clearing-up operations which followed, a number of old letters and other documents came to light. Amongst these were all the stubs from the certificates which are sent to Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy giving the date of death, cause of death, and age of each cad...

Dr Alfred Hart (1888-1954) of Toronto and exsanguination transfusion of the newborn.

Dr Alfred Purvis Hart, MB, MC was born on a farm at Wilfred in Canada. He received his early education at Uxbridge and graduated in medicine at the University ofToronto in 191 1. After postgraduate studies in London, England, and service in France during the Great War, he returned to Toronto to join the paediatric staff of the Hospital for Sick Children in 1921. There he remained for 30 years u...

Op-brai130100 1868..1888

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has demonstrated reorganization of memory encoding networks within the temporal lobe in temporal lobe epilepsy, but little is known of the extra-temporal networks in these patients. We investigated the temporal and extra-temporal reorganization of memory encoding networks in refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and the neural correlates of successful subsequen...

Dmd053595 1888..1895

Olmesartan medoxomil (OM) is a prodrug-type angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARB). We recently identified carboxymethylenebutenolidase homolog (CMBL) as the responsible enzyme for OM bioactivation in humans. In the present study, we compared the bioactivating properties of OM with those of other prodrug-type ARBs, candesartan cilexetil (CC) and azilsartan medoxomil (AM), by focusing on i...

William Wallace (1791-1837).