The article deals the possibility of applying Vladimir Propp’s, basically anthropological idea “the inverted ritual” to interpretation certain plays by William Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. said inversion concerns three rituals: sacrificial ritual, where passive and obedient victim suddenly rebels, or at least becomes difficult control (which is case, for example, Ophelia in Hamlet); initia...

1 Adipocyte-Derived Fibroblasts promote tumor progression and contribute to the desmoplastic reaction in 1 breast cancer. 2 Ludivine Bochet , Camille Lehuédé, Stéphanie Dauvillier , Yuan Yuan Wang , Béatrice Dirat , 3 Victor Laurent , Cédric Dray , Romain Guiet , Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini , Sophie Le Gonidec , 4 Bettina Couderc, Ghislaine Escourrou , Philippe Valet 1,3 and Catherine Muller 1,...

The first successful appendicectomy is often credited to Lawson Tait (1880). But it was Claudius Amyand who, in 1735, successfully resected a perforated appendix from the hernia sac of an 11-year-old boy. In his honor, inguinal hernia containing vermiform appendix is named as Amyand hernia.[1,2] Mucus accumulation and ischemia of the entrapped appendix may precipitate infection and inflammation...

n the second century of this era, a consul of Rome ntroduced his doctor, Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, to mperor Marcus Aurelius. They got along famously, and alen became the court physician. Renowned for his public ivisections, which allowed startling advances in the fields of natomy and physiology, Galen joined a band of both otable and notorious doctors on a 4,000-year-old quest for he unive...

progressive hemifacial atrophy, also known as parry-romberg syndrome, is an uncommon degenerative and poorly understood condition. it is characterized by a slow and progressive but self-limited atrophy affecting one side of the face. the incidence and the cause of this alteration are unknown. a cerebral disturbance of fat metabolism has been proposed as a primary cause. possible factors that ar...

The need for validated analytical methods and reference materials to identify and measure constituents in dietary supplements is essential. Such methods allow for the documentation that products meet manufacturer's specifications and contain what their labels declare. In March 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule that would establish specific current good manufactu...

IN HIS FILM ADAPTATION of Hamlet (1996), Kenneth Branagh under­ scores the confessional themes present in the play by setting two scenes in a Roman Catholic confessional box. In the first scene, Po­ lonius interrogates Ophelia about her relationship with Ham­ let-an interaction that reinforces the common association of the confessional with an obsession over female sexuality. In the second scen...

In the cochlea, K(+) is essential for mechano-electrical transduction. Here, we explore cochlear structure and function in mice lacking K(+) channels of the two-pore domain family. A profound deafness associated with a decrease in endocochlear potential is found in adult Kcnk5(-/-) mice. Hearing occurs around postnatal day 19 (P19), and completely disappears 2 days later. At P19, Kcnk5(-/-) mic...