Pierre Monbeig (1908-1987)

Leon Chesley (1908-2000)

Leon Chesley studied hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women during the mid-twentieth century. Chesley studied preeclampsia and eclampsia, two hypertensive disorders found in approximately five percent of all US pregnancies. In New Jersey and New York, Chesley devoted over forty years to researching preeclampsia and eclampsia, and conducted several long-term studies using the sa...

1908 Scheme I + - CHOC

A synthetic strategy for the preparation of the quinone antibiotic naphthyridinomycin is outlined. An efficient synthesis of key tricyclic intermediate 6 is described. Naphthyridinomycin (I) is an architecturally interesting broad spectrum antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lusitanus. 9 1 2 The structure elucidation of 1 in I974ia,b revealed its unique hexacyclic structure which shared a quino...

Practical Medicine, Series 1908

Dev117903 1893..1908

Malformation of the urogenital tract represents a considerable paediatric burden, with many defects affecting the lower urinary tract (LUT), genital tubercle and associated structures. Understanding the molecular basis of such defects frequently draws on murine models. However, human anatomical terms do not always superimpose on the mouse, and the lack of accurate and standardised nomenclature ...

Pierre Vermersch

It is absurd and without any scientific interest to try to play off DES against EI, as if the question was to know if one method is better than the other in the absolute. All methodological inventions deserve to be tried and tested. But the question is how apposite are they to their object of study. However, Froese and Gould’s article opens a range of issues that are important and interesting. ...