ACKNOWLEDGMENT: We thank Drs. S. Y. Yu (VA Hospital, St. Louis) for preparations of mI labeled desmosine, and R. B. Rucker (University of California, Davis) and L. B. Sandberg (University of Utah College of Medicine) for purified tropoelastins. Chick embryo lysyl oxidase was a generous gift from Dr. S. N. Narayanan (University of Washington, Seattle). Kentucky reference 2 RI cigarettes were kin...

WORTH A SECOND LOOK Our search for reviews for IUBMB Life includes essays appearing in media of more limited circulation that merit exposure to an international readership. One source of excellent reviews is the Australian Biochemist, the newsletter for the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. A review on heavymetal detoxiŽ cation in plants was published there inDecem...

From the published visual and spectroscopic observations together with some unpublished radial velocities kindly provided by R.F. Griffin, we determine an orbit which accurately reproduces the time of the primary eclipse observed by Griffin et al. (1994) and also recompute Hipparcos astrometric parameters. The orbital parallax is slightly off with respect to Hipparcos whereas the agreement of t...

We have much pleasure in announcing that the lis. 100 prize offered by Messrs. Thacker, ?Spink & Co., for the best essay on 'How Plague is spread,' has been awarded to Major S. Browning Smith, I.M.S., Plague Medical Officer, Punjab, for his paper on 'The Spread of Plague' which appeared in our July number. We have to thank Colonel Lukis, Principal of the Medical College, Calcutta, for kindly ju...

So often the mentally abnormal offender shuffles from Prison to mental hospitals, which he may have only ( JUst left a few weeks before, to pass into the hands of | *his mythical community care. As the number of hospital beds decreases, psychil atric patients, who have spent a greater part of their j 1'ves in the supportive, protective care of the mental hospital, leave to return into the world...

Research was supported by American Philosophical Society grant 7113, by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York grant 20-7331-A and by funds from the Shenandoah Natural History Association. I am very grateful to Linda Jaeger and William Gergits for help in the field studies and to L. Jaeger for the computer programming involved. Douglas Fraser, W. Gergits and Patricia Nanart...

One of us (J. C.) wishes to thank the Ciba Foundation for a grant which enabled him to pursue this study in England. Dr Bolgert kindly referred some of the patients to J. C. for biochemical study. A generous grant to C.R. from the Nuffield Foundation has made possible the establishment of a Unit for the Investigation of Pyrrole Pigment Metabolism. Our thanks are due to Miss A. Benson for skille...

1. The Third Joint FAO/WHO/UNEP International Conference on Mycotoxins was held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 3 to 6 March 1999. The Conference was convened by the DirectorsGeneral of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and was kindly hosted by the Government of the Republic of ...

* This article was first published in its complete English-language version in Rivista di Patologia Vegetale (now Journal of Plant Pathology), suppl. vol. VII, series IV (1971). We thank Prof. Giovanni Martelli for kindly granting us permission to reprint its first part on this occasion. * * Istituto di Patologia Vegetale, Università di Milano. Abstract. Details of Streptoverticillium structure...

We generated a list of all topical corticosteroids available in Poland in 2015 (2) and described by the manufacturer as being ‘for topical use on the skin’. For each product meeting the inclusion criteria, the list of ingredients was extracted from the package insert. Subsequently, the compounds were matched against the European baseline series of 28 contact allergens (3) and possible cross-rea...