Reviews

Judith W. Page, Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. Pp. xiii + 200, 6 illustrations. ISBN 0-520-08493-4 (HB) $35.00. Carl Plasa and Betty J. Ring, eds., The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xix + 226. ISBN 0-415-081252-1 (PB)$17.95. John Kucich, The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 289. ISBN 0-8014-2842-4 (HB) $37.50, 0-8014-8089-2 (PB)$14.95. Miriam Bailin, The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, No. 1). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Pp. 200. ISBN 0-521-44526-4 (HB) $49.95. Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson, eds., At the Limits of Romanticism. Bloomington: U of Indiana P, 1994. Pp. vi + 291. ISBN 0-253-32156-5 (HB)$39.95, 0-253-20853-X (PB) $14.95

Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) and MBL-associated serine protease-2 in children with cancer

Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) and MBL-associated serine protease-2 (MASP-2) are two key components of the lectin-pathway of complement-activation. Information on the potential role of lectin-pathway components in carcinogenesis versus immune surveillance of cancer is scarce. This study aimed to determine if serum concentrations of MBL and MASP-2 differ between children with cancer and healthy age-matched controls