BIOMEDICINE: The ABCs of CBS

The ABCs of PBMs.

The ABCs of RBCs

RAGE Against the ABCs.

Diabetes is an insidious disease that significantly contributes to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). One of the major factors contributing to atherosclerosis is the accumulation of lipid-laden macrophages in the vascular wall (1). Removal of cholesterol from macrophages is essential for the regression of atherosclerotic lesions. This can be achieved by cholesterol...

The ABCs of Floral Evolution

Genetic and molecular analyses in two eudicot plants, Hong Ma* and Claude dePamphilis Department of Biology and Arabidopsis thaliana and Antirrhinum majus, have idenThe Life Sciences Consortium tified several genes that specify floral organ identity. Penn State University These studies led to the proposal of the ABC model University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (Coen and Meyerowitz, 1991; Ma, 1994)...

The ABCs of Iliofemoral DVT

A 22-year-old athlete with a history of the factor V Leiden mutation and previous deep vein thrombosis (DVT) presented to his primary care physician with a swollen right leg after running a race over the weekend in hot weather. A 46-yearold woman bound to a wheelchair who had stage IV ovarian cancer developed progressive bilateral lower extremity leg swelling that had become intolerable and a r...