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.CarlPlasaandBettyJ.Ring,eds.,TheDiscourseofSlavery:AphraBehntoToniMorrison.London:Routledge,1994.Pp.xix+226.ISBN0−415−081252−1(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.MaryA.FavretandNicolaJ.Watson,eds.,AttheLimitsofRomanticism.Bloomington:UofIndianaP,1994.Pp.vi+291.ISBN0−253−32156−5(HB)39.95, 0-253-20853-X (PB) $14.95
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