Following the discovery of ergosterol by Tanret (l), Gerard (2) observed that not only ergot, but fungi in general, contain it. Gerard was the first to recognize ergosterol in yeast, although Nageli (3) had earlier obtained a yeast “cholesterol” in crude form. In traces ergosterol is now known to be widely distributed in both plant and animal kingdoms, but the fungi, and particularly the yeasts...

General equilibrium theory (GET) took the entire edifice of economic theory by storm during the 1950s. Its elegant existence theorems, proved by, among others, Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu (1954) and Lionel McKenzie (1959), provided a framework of analysis that made more precise and sound the main intuitions of the neoclassical school. An even more important consequence of these developments...

Meinie Seelen,1* Rosario A. Toro Campos,2* Jan H. Veldink,1 Anne E. Visser,1 Gerard Hoek,2 Bert Brunekreef,2,3 Anneke J. van der Kooi,4 Marianne de Visser,4 Joost Raaphorst,5 Leonard H. van den Berg,1† and Roel C.H. Vermeulen2,3† Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Environmental Epidemiology Division, Institute for Risk As...

Tim medieval medical practitioner, like his fellows in every age, was vulnerable to accusations of negligence. The least fortunate, or perhaps the most negligent, might find themselves liable to public prosecution," despite some recognition that treatment was hazardous anyway.2 More commonly, the doctor might face a private lawsuit by a dissatisfied patient; a cursory glance through Talbot and ...

Prolonged lymphocytosis during ibrutinib therapy is associated with distinct molecular characteristics and does not indicate a suboptimal response to therapy Jennifer A. Woyach, Kelly Smucker, Lisa L. Smith, Arletta Lozanski, Yiming Zhong, Amy S. Ruppert, David Lucas, Katie Williams, Weiqiang Zhao, Laura Rassenti, Emanuela Ghia, Thomas J. Kipps, Rose Mantel, Jeffrey Jones, Joseph Flynn, Kami Ma...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY We report the de novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptomes of Brachypodium sylvaticum (slender false-brome) accessions from native populations of Spain and Greece, and an invasive population west of Corvallis, Oregon, USA. • METHODS AND RESULTS More than 350 million sequence reads from the mRNA libraries prepared from three B. sylvaticum genot...