Alan Atkinson 1934-2017

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Detlev Bronk, 1934

Dmd052704 1934..1948

To investigate the expression profiles of efflux transporters in human ocular tissues, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry were used to obtain the relative mRNA and protein expressions of various efflux transporters in human ocular tissues. The cornea, conjunctiva, irisciliary body (ICB), retina and choroid, human corneal epithelial cell ...

Alan Cowey

theories rigorously. Here are some of my reservations. One generic problem is that Lynch's evidence comes from broad brush comparisons of extremely disparate types of organism. It is true that, on average, bacteria have much large N e values than most eukaryotes for which we currently have data, but they differ in numerous other respects as well, for example lack of regular sexual reproduction....

Alan Baddeley

Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He studied psychology at University College London and Princeton before doing a PhD at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, where he spent much of his career as Director. His interests are in human memory, and in particular in working memory, a system for keepin...