A trip to Moscow

[Traumatology and ambulance service in the Soviet Union. Experiences from a study trip to Moscow].

To Moscow with Love: Partial Reconstruction of Vygotsky’s Trip to London

The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) left the Soviet Union only once to attend a conference on the education of the deaf in London. So far almost nothing was known about this trip, which took place in a period when Vygotsky was still completely unknown as a psychologist, both inside his own country and abroad. Making use of a newly discovered notebook, it proved possible to partial...

A TRiP to heart failure.

Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels constitute a somewhat eclectic family of ion channels that share structural similarities and some functional properties, especially cation permeability and weak voltage sensitivity. TRP channels are expressed in virtually every cell type present in the heart, including cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and vascular smooth muscle cells. In...

A trip to the ER

Mice lacking Muc2 had an increased ratio of proliferating to apoptotic epithelial cells, resulting in altered maturation and increased migration of epithelial cells in the intestine. They were also more likely to develop intestinal, colon, and rectal tumors. The mice are the first good model for studying rectal tumors, which are common in humans. Anticancer lubrication new mouse model for the s...

Field trip to

I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...