Who will care for tomorrow's children with benign hematological conditions?

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We all can contribute to training the new generation of pediatric hematologists

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Site-selective spectroscopy and level ordering in C-phycocyanin

We present a combined fluorescence and hole-burning study of the biliprotein C-phycocyanin. Sharp zero-phonon holes compare with a broad structureless fluorescence. This finding is rationalized in terms of the special level structure in this pigment, the fast energy-transfer processes and a lack of correlation of the energies of the emissive states

Rebecca Rogers, From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France

Le livre de Rebecca Rogers From the Salon to the Schoolroom ouvre pour les lecteurs une voie d’entrée érudite à tout ce que les historiens nous ont appris sur la vie des femmes françaises depuis deux siècles. Alors que l’ouvrage en anglais de cette étude fouillée rappelle aux lecteurs anglophones l’influence importante de la pédagogie française dans les écoles britanniques et nord-américaines, la version française souligne le rôle joué par les pensionnats privés dans l’éducation des femmes en..

Closeup: Women\u27s Studies Department at San Diego

Despite hazards both external and internal, the Women\u27s Studies Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) has now survived eight years, has been strengthened in the process, and has moved in new directions. Designated a program in 1970, it is in fact a functioning department, thanks to two successive supportive deans. Funded initially by the SDSU Foundation in a period of militant feminism, in 1974 Women\u27s Studies was assimilated into the administrative structure of the College of Arts and Letters. In the California State University system, funding for academic programs is determined almost exclusively by student enrollment. Departmental status for women\u27s studies, therefore, means that the resources generated by strong student interest are available for building the Women\u27s Studies Department. With a faculty allocation at present of 6.8 positions (plus .6 for administration), approximately 1000 students enrolled each semester (in Spring 197 8, 1100), one full-time secretary, two half-time student assistants, eight offices, supplies and services expenses over $2000, and the usual departmental share in audiovisual and library purchases and services, the women\u27s studies annual budget approaches$150,000

An optical linewidth study of a chromoprotein-C-phycocyanin in a low-temperature glass

The temperature dependence of spectral holes burnt into a phycocyanin-doped ethylene glycol/water glass is investigated in the temperature range between 1.5 and 15 K. The data are well described by a power law with an exponent of 1.16 ± 0.1. Chromoproteins thus behave very much the same as glasses doped with small impurity molecules

Role of diradylglycerol formation in H2O2 and lactoferrin release in adherent human polymorphonuclear leukocytes

Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) adherent to fibrinogen exhibit a delay in the release of H2O2 in response to fMLP. Previously, we demonstrated that H2O2 release in adherent PMNs coincides with the exocytosis of lactoferrin‐containing specific granules and activation of phospholipase D (PLD). We also found that chelation of intracellular calcium blocked both lactoferrin and H2O2 release in stimulated PMNs in spite of the fact that adhesion and spreading remained normal. Since diradylglycerol (DRG) formation has been implicated in PMN secretion and oxidant release, we determined the effect of intracellular calcium chelation on PLD activation and DRG formation to ascertain whether DRG formation was coupled to lactoferrin and H2O2 release. We observed that chelation of intracellular calcium with bis‐(O‐aminophenoxy)‐ethanol‐N,N;N’‐ tetraacetic add (BAPTA) prevented PLD activation as monitored by inhibition of phosphatidylethanol formation. Formation of DRG derived from phosphatidic acid (PA) was also inhibited in the presence of BAPTA. Following the addition of the calcium ionophore ionomycin to the BAPTA‐treated PMNs, lactoferrin and H2O2 release was coincident with the onset of DRG formation. Also the addition of sn‐1,2‐didecanoylglycerol to the BAPTA‐treated PMNs stimulated them to release H2O2. Our studies support the hypothesis that DRG derived from PLD activation is required for degranulation of specific granules and associated H2O2 release from adherent PMNs. J. Leukoc. Biol. 56: 105–109; 1994.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/141596/1/jlb0105.pd