Smith’s Green-Eyed Lizard(Source)
(Source: johnny-escobar)
Life-line.
Hahaha
Seiko Coutura Chronograph
Alarm Chronograph (Cal.7T92)SNAE57
- Hour, minute and small second hands
- Alarm can be set on a 12-hour basis with two small hands Alarm Chronograph measures up to 60 minutes in 1/5 second increments; after 60 minutes it will start counting from”0” repeatedly up to 12 hours Alarm hands can indicate the time in a different time zone
- Cabochon crown
- Sapphire crystal
- MSRP $495.00
The appreciation for podocytes runs rampant!
More interestingly, recently read an article that WT1 regulates genes that are not only required for the cellular extensions seen here with podocytes, but also that of dendrites of neurons.
Filter factor
Among the essential jobs of the kidneys is cleansing the blood of metabolic waste and excess water, which is then excreted through the urinary tract. Each kidney consists of about 1 million glomeruli – tightly bound knots of capillaries covered with podocyte cells (in this image by Thomas Deerinck, false-colored red). The podocyte cells form interweaving extensions, called pedicles, that infiltrate the kidneys’ capillary system. Toxic waste is extracted as it moves through the pedicles’ interlocking filtration slits, transferred to the lumen of the Bowman’s capsule and finally drained into the bladder as urine.
The process is efficient and endlessly hard-working, filtering roughly 100 liters (26 gallons) of blood every hour.
Microparticle Drug Delivery.
Photo by: Science3point0.com from Flickr
Radical Surgery Saves Life of Young Mom, California First
Liver Removed, Reconstructed, Re-ImplantedA team led by Alan Hemming, MD, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed the west coast’s first ex-vivo liver resection, a radical procedure to completely remove and reconstruct a diseased liver and re-implant it without any tumors. The procedure saved the life of a 27-year old mother whose liver had been invaded by a painful tumor that crushed the organ and entangled its blood supply.
“During a 9-hour surgery the team was able to remove the basketball-sized tumor,” said Hemming, professor and surgical director of the Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation (CHAT) at UC San Diego Health System. “This is a surgery that carries a 15 to 20 percent risk of mortality. In this case, the patient would not have survived if she did not have surgery. This was the only way we could save her liver and her life.”
People often ask how I can write 100 pages on a single protein, Wilms’ Tumor Suppressor Protein 1 (WT1). This was created to show protein interactions, gene regulation, and hormone interactions, both direct and indirect, that deal with WT1.
