A Deconstructive Interpretation on the Binary Opposition in King Lear

King Lear is one of the four tragedies of the marvelous British playwriter William Shakespeare. This article attempts to deconstruct the two traditional binary pairs of “speech/word”, “blessing/misfortune “from the angle of Derrida’s deconstruction theory through the analysis of the two clues of King Lear and Gloucester. Deconstruction of King Lear has certain significance for us to see things dialectically and re-recognize the world around us

An Ecological Interpretation of The Return of the Native

This essay aims to study The Return of the Native from the perspective of ecocriticism. Hardy indicates nature possesses its intrinsic value and nature and humans are equal in the ecological system. Human’s alienation from nature leads to the disharmonious man-nature relationship. It reveals the deep natural ecological thought contained in the novel: man should see nature’s intrinsic value and build harmonious man-nature relationship

A Literature Review on Ted Hughes’ Poetry

Ted Hughes is one of the most representative poets in contemporary Britain. He is named as the “animal poet” for he is good at using animals as materials for poetry creation. Although researchers and scholars at home and abroad have done abundant studies on Hughes and his works, most of them probe Hughes’ poetry on animal images, ecologism, violence and Taoism.This article aims to give a comprehensive analysis of Ted Hughes’ poetry

Expression of interleukin-17RC protein in normal human tissues

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Interleukin-17 (IL-17) cytokines and receptors play an important role in many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. IL-17 receptors IL-17RA and IL-17RC have been found to form a heterodimer for mediating the signals of IL-17A and IL-17F cytokines. While the function and signaling pathway of IL-17RA has been revealed, IL-17RC has not been well characterized. The function and signaling pathway of IL-17RC remain largely unknown. The purpose of the present study was to systematically examine IL-17RC protein expression in 53 human tissues.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>IL-17RC expression in 51 normal human tissues and two benign tumors (i.e., lymphangioma and parathyroid adenoma) on the tissue microarrays was determined by immunohistochemical staining, using two polyclonal antibodies against IL-17RC. IL-17RC protein was expressed in many cell types including the myocardial cells, vascular and lymphatic endothelial cells, glandular cells (of the adrenal, parathyroid, pituitary, thyroid, pancreas, parotid salivary, and subepidermal glands), epithelial cells (of the esophagus, stomach, intestine, anus, renal tubule, breast, cervix, Fallopian tube, epididymis, seminal vesicle, prostate, gallbladder, bronchus, lung, and skin), oocytes in the ovary, Sertoli cells in the testis, motor neurons in the spinal cord, autonomic ganglia and nerves in the intestine, skeletal muscle cells, adipocytes, articular chondrocytes, and synovial cells. High levels of IL-17RC protein expression were observed in most vascular and lymphatic endothelium and squamous epithelium. The epithelium of the breast, cervix, Fallopian tube, kidney, bladder and bronchus also expressed high levels of IL-17RC, so did the glandular cells in the adrenal cortex, parotid salivary and subepidermal glands. In contrast, IL-17RC protein was not detectable in the smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, antral mucosa of the stomach, mucosa of the colon, endometrium of the uterus, neurons of the brain, hepatocytes, or lymphocytes. Nevertheless, IL-17RC protein was expressed in the vascular endothelium within the tissues where the IL-17RC-negative cells resided.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>IL-17RC protein is expressed in most human tissues, the function of which warrants further investigation.</p

A Postcolonial Study on the Cultural Predicaments in Dragonwings

Dragonwings, the first Chinese American novel written by Laurence Yep, wins Newbery Honor Book in 1976. In light of the domestic and foreign research findings, it can be found that not so much importance has been attached to analyzing Moon Shadow’s cultural predicaments in Dragonwings. Based on the post-colonialism, this paper is to focus on systematically analyzing the influencing factors on Moon Shadow’s cultural predicaments in America and providing inspirations for those who are confusing about their cultural predicaments under the circumstance of globalization.