Adenosine-enhanced ischemic preconditioning (APC) extends the protection afforded by ischemic preconditioning (IPC) by both significantly decreasing infarct size and significantly enhancing postischemic functional recovery. The purpose of this study was to determine whether APC is modulated by ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels and to determine whether this modulation occurs before ische...

James Marion Sims [5] developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina [6] during labor, ruptures called vesico-vaginal fistulas, and he developed techniques and tools used to improve reproductive examinations and health care for women in the US during the nineteenth century. Sims's lateral examination position allowed doctors to better see the vaginal c...

Ernest Everett Just [5] was an early twentieth century American experimental embryologist involved in research at the Marine Biological Laboratory [6] (MBL) at Woods Hole [7], Massachusetts, and the Stazione Zoologica [8] in Naples, Italy. Just was known for simple but elegant experiments that supported the ?fertilizing? theory of Frank R. Lillie and served as an antagonist to Jacques Loeb?s wo...

Papanicolaou was born 13 May 1883 in the city of Kymi on the island of Euboea in Greece. He was the third son of Maria Georgiou and Nikolas Papanicolaou. His father was a doctor and mayor of Kymi. In his youth, Papanicolaou studied literature, philosophy, foreign languages, and he played the violin. After high school in Athens, Greece, he studied medicine at the University of Athens in Athens. ...

The University of Colorado School of Medicine was established in 1883, " since the Regents believed that the lives and health of the people of Colorado are not second in importance to any other interest that can be subserved by the State University. " In 1883 the School consisted of " two rooms, two professors, two instructors and two hastily recruited students. " In 1888 the School moved into ...

In the December number of the Indian Medical Gazette of 1882 and the February number of 1883 two papers of mine appeared on my first twenty cases of litholapaxy. These cases represented my experience of the operation up to the end of 1882. During the year 1883 I performed litholapaxy in 57cases, and in the present paper I propose reviewing these, and making some further practical observations w...

The pupal cases of the Nearctic robber flies Laphria canis Williston, 1883: L. ferox Williston, 1883: L. macquarti (Banks, 1917): and L. posticata Say, 1824 are described and illustrated. A key is provided to the pupal cases of these and seven other species of Laphria previously described. A revised key also is included for the pupal cases of three genera of Laphriinae: Andrenosoma, Lampria, an...

Five indigenous Aspergillus flavus strains MTCC-2206, 1884, 1883, 1783 and 2456 were screened for the secretion of quercetinase. Fungal strains MTCC-2206, 1884, 1883, and 1783 were found to secrete the quercetinase in the range of 0.24-0.36 enzyme unit/mL of the culture medium, while MTCC-2456 secreted only 0.04 enzyme unit/mL. The enzymatic characteristics of quercetinase were determined. The ...