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Effects Of 5-Aza-2' Deoxycitidine And Sulforaphane On Major Histocompatibility Complex (Mhc) Classes I And Ii Surface Expression In Human Acute T-Cell Leukemia Cell Jurkat, Ali Salam Abdullah Ms Oct 2014

Effects Of 5-Aza-2' Deoxycitidine And Sulforaphane On Major Histocompatibility Complex (Mhc) Classes I And Ii Surface Expression In Human Acute T-Cell Leukemia Cell Jurkat, Ali Salam Abdullah Ms

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The immune system cells recognize and kill cancer cells by engaging the tumor antigens on the surfaces of cancer cells presented by the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC). Cancer cells can escape from immune system cells recognition and/or killing by down-regulating the MHC expression through genetic or epigenetic mechanisms.


The Devil In The Details: Evidence For The Affliction Of Lyme Disease In Seventeenth Century Massachusetts, Mary Drymon Derose Ma Apr 2005

The Devil In The Details: Evidence For The Affliction Of Lyme Disease In Seventeenth Century Massachusetts, Mary Drymon Derose Ma

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This study looks for evidence that Lyme disease is an old affliction that predates its "discovery" in Connecticut in the nineteen seventies. It analyzes the role that Lyme disease may have played in the history of English settlement in Massachusetts during the seventeenth century. Early settlers at Plymouth and in the Boston area described sicknesses that they suffered from at contact as being the result of starvation and scurvy. In 1692, the residents of the Salem Village area were describing physical and mental afflictions that they felt were caused by witchcraft. Some of the seventeenth-century symptoms are very similar to …