The process of blood clotting is very complex. As it occurs normally, it is the result of many factors not well understood. The progress made in recent years was due to the fact that ways were found to separate the many factors into groups, some of which control definite phases of the complex process of blood clotting. The phase best understood is that of the conversion of fibrinogen into fibri...

A recent study maintains to have identified a case of severe Graves’ disease in the bronze statue Cosimo I de’ Medici forged by Benevenuto Cellini (between 1545 and 1547). We carefully examined artistic sources, medical primary sources paleopathological findings with aim showing that (1519-1574) was not affected disease. The analysis different statues portraits Grand-Duke Tuscany confirms inter...

Environ. Entomol. 22(S): 978-992 (1993) ABSTRACT Surveys of Anopheles larval habitats in northern Belize were carried out during September 1990 and April 1991. At each site, larvae were collected and the physical and chemical characteristics of water and species composition of aquatic vegetation were measured or estimated. Data on presence or absence of four species, Anopheles albimanus Wiedema...

BACKGROUND The Medici project consisted in archeological and paleopathological researches on some members of the great dynasty of the Italian Renaissance. The remains of Giovanni de' Medici, so-called "dalle Bande Nere" (Forlì 1498- Mantua 1526) have not been investigated yet. The enigma of the fatal injury and leg amputation of the famous Captain excited curiosity of paleopathologists, medical...

Early work on the effects of light quality on plant elongation produced many conflicting reports. Vince et al. (15) pointed out that this could be due to the use of ill-defined wave band limits and unequal energy levels. Conflict still exists, how-ever, in spite of improvedl techniques. Vince and Stoughton (16) have reported that interno(le elongation is more dependent on the species than on ot...