Ligand Bias by the Endogenous Agonists of CCR7 by David A. Zidar, MD Department of Immunology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Supervisor ___________________________ Garnett Kelsoe, D.Sc., Chair ___________________________ Yuan Zhuang, Ph. D. ___________________________ Weiguo Zhang, Ph.D. ___________________________ Mar...

It was a retrospective case-control study. The aim of this study was to explore the clinical efficacy and complication of treatment using a modified Kirschner wire tension band (MKTB) or a cannulated screw tension band (CSTB) in transverse patellar fractures.In total, 55 patients with transverse patellar fractures were retrospectively reviewed and divided into 2 groups according to the surgical...

Rose and Caron (2007) have compiled a comprehensive data set of individual growth rates of planktonic protists in an attempt to answer a fundamental question in marine ecology: ‘‘Why are blooms of phytoplankton such common events in the ocean?’’. They reach the interesting conclusion that, because the temperature dependence of the growth rate of heterotrophic protists is much stronger than that...