An Unconventional Housecall

Unconventional Models of Computation UMC’98 An Unconventional Review

Its January—summertime! The sun is up high, the surf is good, the sky is blue and the sand is golden and hot. As these lines are written, the author has settled on the beautiful beaches of New Zealand’s Northland. Unconventional methods of computation seem all but a remote possibility. And yet, many of today’s speculations become tomorrow’s physics and key technologies of the future. The questi...

Unconventional protein secretion: an evolving mechanism.

The process by which proteins are secreted without entering the classical endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi complex pathway, in eukaryotic cells, is conveniently called unconventional protein secretion. Recent studies on one such protein called Acb1 have revealed a number of components involved in its secretion. Interestingly, conditions that promote the secretion of Acb1 trigger the biogenesis ...

An Unconventional Route of Left Ventricular Pacing

We present a case of a rare complication of transvenous right ventricular pacing by temporary pacing wire causing iatrogenic interventricular septal perforation and left ventricular pacing in a 69-year-old man who was referred for recurrent syncope with sinus arrest.

An Unconventional, Highly Multipath-Resistant, Modulation Scheme

Alkaline Phosphatase, an Unconventional Immune Protein

Recent years have seen an increase in the number of studies focusing on alkaline phosphatases (APs), revealing an expanding complexity of function of these enzymes. Of the four human AP (hAP) proteins, most is known about tissue non-specific AP (TNAP) and intestinal AP (IAP). This review highlights current understanding of TNAP and IAP in relation to human health and disease. TNAP plays a role ...