Another Aurora

Parody: Another Revision

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

Dictyostelium Aurora kinase has properties of both Aurora A and Aurora B kinases.

Aurora kinases are highly conserved proteins with important roles in mitosis. Metazoans contain two kinases, Aurora A and B, which contribute distinct functions at the spindle poles and the equatorial region respectively. It is not currently known whether the specialized functions of the two kinases arose after their duplication in animal cells or were already present in their ancestral kinase....

Aurora B

Already in the eighties it was shown that the active form of vitamin D 3 , 1,25-dihydroxyvi-tamin D 3 [1,25(OH) 2 D 3 ], can inhibit the proliferation of melanoma cells 1 and stimulate the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells. 2 The almost universal presence of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and the presence of 1α-hydroxylase (CyP27B1) activity in non-classical tissues together with the anti...

Operation Aurora

Aurora kinases

to relinquish its shell, allowing the attacker to evict it by pulling it out through the aperture; or the attacker may give up, and release the defender, without effecting an eviction. If the attacker is successful, it will perform the usual investigatory activities on the vacated shell and decide whether to occupy it permanently. During this process the evicted defender is left without a shell...