BIOMEDICINE: Mounting a Counterattack

Polystyrene mounting medium.

Polystyrene mounting medium obtainable Ltd, 20 Du The medium described by Kirkpatrick One pounc and Lendrum (1939) and named by them mountant DPX (Distrene plasticised in xylene) was (75°% one replaced by a better formula in 1941. This medium BPS (butyl phthalate plasticised styrene) has given excellent and economical service until recently. The current trouble was not due to the makers of the ...

Tropical Biomedicine

Biomedicine Select

Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, are complex disorders characterized by an inflammatory response against the body's own tissues. Recent findings reveal new insights into how these diseases are initiated and progress and the factors that contribute to their clinical symptoms. Such work also pinpoints potential new therapeutic targets including the integra...

Biomedicine Select

This issue’s Biomedicine Select highlights new insights into the role of mitochondria in disease. Several new studies implicate abnormal mitochondria in the destruction of neurons of the substantia nigra, the cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Meanwhile, an elegant computational approach has enabled identification of candidate genes for several mitochondrial diseases including the mitochondrial...

A Src-astic response to mounting tension

The nerve growth cone binds to a complex array of guidance cues in its local environment that influence cytoskeletal interactions to control the direction of subsequent axon outgrowth. How this occurs is a critical question and must certainly involve signal transduction pathways. The paper by Suter and Forscher (2001)(this issue) begins to address how one such pathway, an Src family tyrosine ki...