Clinical and internal medicine

The unraveling of our knowledge of the functions of the adrenal gland constitutes one exciting development of modern medicine and biochemistry.

This monograph represents the first comprehensive review of hormones in human amniotic fluid and includes data published up to and including 1980.

Several years ago a friendly looking young man walked into my office at the University Department of Dermatology in Cologne, introduced himself as a diplomate chemist, executive member of a family-owned, rather small German company manufacturing hair care products, and proposed to me straight forward to organize an international meeting on hair research.

The purpose of this monograph is to address the basic mecha- nisms for organizing trials.

In February 1980 the Royal College of Radiologists, London, held its Second Symposium on Clinical Oncology.

In the past 10 years hirsutism has been the object of a considerable number of fundamental studies.

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The physiology and metabolism of thyroid hormones were areas of intense research investigation during the 1970s.

During the past 3 years, little has been added to our funda- mental knowledge of hormonal disorders in gynecology.

The cytochemical bioassay system was described in a short abstract in 1971, and more fully, in the cytochemical bioassay of corticotrophin, in 1972.

Progress in basic research has made it necessary to redetermine the possibility of classic endocrine therapy for the treatment of patients with breast cancer.

The building of conceptual models is an inherent part of our interaction with the world, and the foundation of scientific investigation.

Research on the hormonal control oflactation - the subject of this monograph - has long been the major interest of this laboratory.

The subject of immune deficiency has become of special importance for two reasons.

The subject of this publication, thyroid cancer, was the topic chosen for the First Symposium on Clinical Oncology, orga- nized by the Royal College of Radiologists, London, on 26 and 27 January 1979.

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Either deficient or excessive hormone production has been observed with respect to some rather bizarre clinical manifestations.

Upon wresting the control of the earth from the Titans, Zeus assigned the task of creating living creatures to two Titan brothers who had sided with him in the epic battle just concluded.

We have studied 24 cases of secondarily leukemic (stage V) lymphosarcoma (LS), 31 cases of "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS, and ten cases of lymphoid leukemic neoplasias transitional between "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eLL).

Tactics is the art of combining the action of troops or the proper means of different arms with the object of obtaining the maximum success at combat.

The cloning of hemopoietic cells in semisolid medium began some 12 years ago, and when colonies of T = and B = lymphocytes were grown by several groups last year, the last major subclasses of hemopoietic cells had been successfully cultured in vitro.

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The cells of the immune system generate a large variety of binding sites which differ in their binding specificities and can therefore react specifically with a large variety of ligands.

Since the first observations of Busch in 1866, the possible use of heat as a therapeutic agent in the cure of cancer has been repeatedly subject to bursts of interest, almost invariably followed by periods of neglect and skepticism.

Fresh living Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BeG), injected i.