C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase reactant the concentration of which increases significantly following tissue injury or inflammation. It is present in the albumin fraction of the serum of patients and is antigenic upon injection into rabbits. We report here the development of a local latex reagent coated with rabbit anti-CRP. For this purpose CRP was isolated from pooled sera of patie...

S. Matsumura ([email protected]) and U. Dieckmann, Evolution and Ecology Program, Int. Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, AT–2361 Laxenburg, Austria. Present address for SM: Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu Univ., Yanagido 1-1, Gifu City, JP–501-1193 Gifu, Japan. – R. Arlinghaus, Dept of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Inst. of Freshwater Ecology and Inla...

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Tomoyo Morita, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Akihiro T. Sasaki, Koji Shimada, Ryusuke Kakigi, and Norihiro Sadato Department of Integrative Physiology, Department of Cerebral Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, 38, Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan, Dep...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is prevalent in areas with many inhabitants of Scandinavian descent, and a 'Viking gene' hypothesis has been suggested for the dissemination of the disease. It is therefore relevant to search Norse sagas for descriptions of clinical pictures which could have been MS. The saga of Bishop Thorlak describes a woman named Halldora, who suffered from transient paresis between ...

4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 7-11 june 2004 –Montpellier, France Edited by C. Godin et al., pp. 298-301 Invited talk Evaluating shrub architectural performance in sun and shade environments with the 3-D model Y-plant: are there optimal strategies? Robert W. Pearcy, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Fernando Valladares Section of evolution and Ecology University of Californi...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 204 No. 7 1191–1207 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201309107 JCB 1191 Correspondence to Keiko Kawauchi: [email protected]; or kawauchi30@ gmail.com S. Yamauchi’s present address is Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-1193, Japan. K. Kawauchi’s present address is Frontiers of Innovative Research in Science and Tec...