The clinical complications associated with severe and cerebral malaria occur as a result of the intravascular mechanical obstruction of erythrocytes infected with the asexual stages of the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. We now report that a primary P. falciparum-infected erythrocyte (parasitized red blood cell [PRBC]) isolate from a patient with severe complicated malaria binds to cytokine-in...

Cuneiform tablets tell the life and culture of Sumerian people in a sort of black and white tale because of the binary engraving technique. A leading question arises: did Mesopotamian people apply some kind of colour to decorate their tablets or to put emphasis on selected words? Some administrative and literary Sumerian cuneiform tablets of mid-third Millennium B.C. from the site of Kish (cent...

Pretreatment of endothelial cells with cytokines enhances the adherence of leukocytes, a process that is mediated by surface proteins expressed on both cell types. A three-dimensional model system for the simultaneous determination of leukocyte adherence and migration was used to study the contribution of CD11/CD18, endothelial leukocyte-adhesion molecule-1 (ELAM-1) and VLA-4 in neutrophil and ...

PURPOSE To explore whether geographic mobility is associated with career advancement of women in U.S. medical schools who are entering mid- to executive-level positions. METHOD Using an existing dataset of 351 participants in academic medicine who attended the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women (1996-2005) (adjusted to 345 participants in some analyses because ...

based on the historical data, marhashi has been one of the eventful regions of iran during the second and third millennium b. c. it has been also one of the important confederates of ancient elam during the most of its life time. the mesopotamia texts cited to its name beside the name of ancient elam. the goal of this research is to determine the position of marhashi region through study and ex...

To understand the molecular events which are important in leucocyte trafficking in cutaneous inflammation, poison ivy/oak extract was applied topically to the skin, and the simultaneous assessment of a variety of clinical and immunopathological parameters performed. The clinical response of subjects was divided into three main groups: I, 2-24h after application, before the onset of erythema; II...

This article is an investigation of the role knowledge dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part curriculum people who were about to become foremost administrators their time, one more languages seems pillar self-consciousness in many periods. The three groups under study are...