ERYTHROCYTE PLASMA MEMBRANE LIPID COMPOSITION MIRRORS THAT OF NEURONS AND GLIAL CELLS IN MURINE EXPERIMENTAL IN VITRO AND IN VIVO INFLAMMATION

Erythrocyte Plasma Membrane Lipid Composition Mirrors That of Neurons and Glial Cells in Murine Experimental In Vitro and In Vivo Inflammation

Lipid membrane turnover and myelin repair play a central role in diseases and lesions of the central nervous system (CNS).The aim of the present study was to analyze lipid composition changes due to inflammatory conditions.We measured the fatty acid (FA) composition in erythrocytes (RBCs) and spinal cord tissue (gas chromatography) derived from mic

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REVIEW: Story of Rabaul eruptions has lessons for wider Pacific

Return to Volcano Town: Reassessing the 1937-43 volcanic eruptions at Rabaul, by R.Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall (editors).Canberra: ANU Press, 2023.410 pages, ISBN 9781760466039.EARLY one morning in 1953 my father and kiap David Hook set out from Popondetta to climb Mount Lamington in what was then the Territory of Papua Grooming and New Gui

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