Isolates cultured from the following normally sterile sites were considered clinically relevant: cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial fluid, synovial fluid, and tissues (brain, heart valve, or biopsy tissues).
Mind you, Valve deserve it.
This finding provides a neuroscientific underpinning for the metaphor of the brain as a "reducing valve" whose censoring activity is turned down by psychedelics – an idea popularised by the novelist Aldous Huxley in his 1954 essay The Doors of Perception.
According to Huxley's interpretation of his day on mescaline, our brain is a "reducing valve," which restricts our consciousness to what helps with survival.
The systemic nature of the disease is determined by a number of extrarenal manifestations (from hepatic and brain cysts to heart valve and cerebrovascular abnormalities) that accompany the kidney cysts (Gabow 1990) and indicate the complex role of ADPKD causative gene products (Ong & Harris 2005).
The current model was unchained for the 2000 model year, its heart a 4.9-liter V-8 with 32 variably timed valves, its brain an electronic marvel that, among many things, manages a state-of-the-art electronic throttle.
Venous channels called venous sinuses lie between the two layers of the dura mater, the outer covering of the brain; they possess no valves.
Gm-Wnt7 is expressed in older embryos at the posterior of the germ band in the anal valves, the brain, the heart, the midgut, the labrum, the mandibles, and possibly also weakly in the other developing appendages.
A spot beside her is saved for Mr. Graham, who underwent surgery last month to have a valve in his brain shunt replaced.
Huxley believed that hallucinogenic drugs produce their characteristic effects by opening a "reducing valve" in the brain that normally limits our perception, and some of the new research seems to confirm this.
