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Spare the rod, spoil the degeneration.
A host of retinal degenerations, including many types of retinitis pigmentosa, follow a pattern of rod loss followed by cone loss. The rod loss may take many years, causing problems with night vision and peripheral visual field constriction. Only after significant rod loss occurs does cone loss ensue, with its devastating loss of central vision. The pathophysiology for some of these degeneratio...
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Current knowledge The patient in this scenario illustrates a common and increasingly frequent clinical scenario in pediatric hospitals and wards. The most recent published admissions data from The Pediatric Health Information System database show that children with significant chronic medical conditions accounted for 19.2% of hospitalized patients, but a remarkable 48.9% of hospital days and 53...
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W hen the waitress brings you soup in a restaurant, you put down your fork and pick up a spoon. Cells do something similar when they change their diet, switching the nutrient-importing proteins in their plasma membrane. Becuwe et al. show how the post-translational modifi cation of a key adaptor protein enables cells to remove unneeded transporters (1). Transporter proteins embedded in the plas...
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Physicists love emergence. From a welter of complex details about a system's constituents, simple and universal rules sometimes emerge that adequately describe the collective behavior of the components. Even if these rules are not completely universal, they often have only a few relevant parameters, a vast simplification compared to the many that describe the constituents individually. But as V...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medieval Feminist Newsletter
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1054-1004,2154-4042
DOI: 10.17077/1054-1004.1419