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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Anencephalic"”.
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Restoring the Balance: Setting Aside Naturalism in Favor of Personhood in Extreme Cases
… dissertation addresses a simple question: Is an anencephalic child a person? These children are born with only a brain stem, and, as such, cannot experience any type of consciousness. If personhood is understood as an articulable moral category, particularly distinct from DNA membership, …
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MacMARCKS and the Protein Kinase C Signal Transduction Pathway: Role in Neural Secretion and Neural Development
… in exencephaly. MacMARCKS null mice are born anencephalic and die soon after birth. The work presented in this thesis demonstrates that MacMARCKS is essential for processes associated with signal transduction events leading to reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton.</p>
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The metabolism of cortisol in the human feto-placental unit
… value of cortisol in mixed cord plasma of live anencephalic fetuses was 3.3 ± 1.8 µg/100 ml (n = 3) and of cortisone was 13.6 ± 3.2 µg/100 ml (n = 3). Further assays employing a radioimmunoassay for cortisol, and competitive protein binding for cortisone have been applied to cord plasma samples …