1 Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA 2 Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3 Universal Biology Institute, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 4 Departments of Dermatology & Cell Biology, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA # Equal contrib...

The aim of the paper is to give an overview of the knowledge on asthma through the history of mankind. The text begins with ancient China and it is finished with the medicine of Middle Age. During this time, a lot of theories came and this appeared about the etiology and therapy of the disease. The paper is giving a short description of the changing medical views during this very long period in...

Olivier Levillain,1 Anna Greco,2 Jean-Jacques Diaz,2 Roger Augier,3 Anne Didier,4 Karine Kindbeiter,2 Frédéric Catez,2 and Myriam Cayre3 1Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Métabolique et Rénale, Faculté de Médecine Lyon R. T. H. Laënnec, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unite 499, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08; 2Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire-Unité Mixte de Recherch...

Submitted for USCAP/IAP '99 Badve S, Soundarajan S, Coopennan A, Mahadevia P. Unusual causes of benign obstructivepancreato-biKary disease leading to pancreato-biliary resection.. Logdberg L, Badve S, Greco MA, Garcia de Davila MT, Mitsudo S, Alpha-1 microglobulinexpression by hepatoblastomas. Hua Z., Logdbeig L, Borczuk A, Badve S„ Discordant expression of major histocompatibilityC...

The distribution of desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) within cells of various organs has been extensively studied and the subject has been reviewed recently (l-3). On the other hand the information concerning the localization of nucleodepolymerases (4) is very limited. Ribonuclease (RNase) has been reported in chicken erythrocyte nuclei (5) and in mitochondria of rat liver...

Food figures prominently in 1 Corinthians. This should not come as a surprise, since food and related concerns (e.g., commensality) are predominant in many other NT texts. In addition, it was an important issue in the Jewish communities; so important, that many of the synagogue complexes included cooking and dining facilities. In some instances, the Jewish community gathered in a renovated hous...

Cases of sexual reassignment in Greco-Roman antiquity, presenting as a pubertal female to male gender transformation, are described in the "classical"literature. Textual evidence concerning a case of androgynism, garnered by Diodorus Siculus, among other similar accounts, as an odd story of gender dispute in a court of justice, is provided in the present study. A medical interpretation of the d...

is paper discusses selected pathological conditions from the skeletal remains of 41 adult individuals (13 males, six possible males, eight possible females, seven females, and seven unknown sex) from the Old Kingdom, First Intermediate, and Ptolemaic or Greco-Roman periods from ancient Mendes. Macroscopic analysis for pathological conditions revealed evidence of trauma, degenerative joint dise...

Este trabajo pretende revisitar un topónimo citado por algunos autores greco-romanos en el ámbito del mediodía o sureste de la península ibérica. Se trata Bigerra, una ciudad regio Bastitania no localizada a día hoy pero que luz las nuevas investigaciones arqueológicas practicadas andaluz y castellano-manchego es posible comenzar dilucidar su ubicación.

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