Recently added articles from Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences:
LIGNANS AND HUMAN HEALTH
Sep 01, 2007; ... This review focuses on the possible role in human health of the consumption of lignan-rich foods. Most of the plant lignans in human foods are converted by the intestinal microflora in the upper part of the large bowel to enterolactone and enterodiol, called mammalian or enterolignans. The ...
THE REGULATION OF CELLULAR IRON METABOLISM
Sep 01, 2007; ... While iron is an essential trace element required by nearly all living organisms, deficiencies or excesses can lead to pathological conditions such as iron deficiency anemia or hemochromatosis, respectively. A decade has passed since the discovery of the hemochromatosis gene, HFE, and our ...
REPRODUCTIVE CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE, IMPLANTATION, AND FETAL IMMUNOTOLERANCE
Sep 01, 2007; ... The fundamental process of implantation involves a series of steps leading to effective cross-talk between invasive trophoblast cells and the maternal endometrium. The molecular interactions at the embryo-maternal interface during the time of blastocyst adhesion and subsequent invasion are not ...
Professor Nikolaus Seiler (1931-2006)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Nikolaus Seiler, an internationally recognized authority on amino acid and polyamine chemistry and biology, died in Erstein, France on July 29, 2006. Nikolaus was born on November 20, 1931 in Budaörs, at the time a large German village near Budapest, Hungary. Although his parents and ...
ANTI-CITRULLINE ANTIBODIES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: Evolving Concepts
Jul 01, 2007; ... Citrulline is a non-standard amino acid that can be incorporated into proteins only by post-translational modification of arginine by peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes during a variety of biologic processes, including inflammation. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune ...