Viviane Reding, the vice president of the European Commission and the E.U. justice commissioner, has severely upbraided France for violating E.U. rules protecting the free circulation of individuals.
Difficult as it may be to think in terms of "valuable" versus "valueless" immigrants, or to distinguish between the free circulation of information and the free circulation of individuals, the growing political clamor over immigration will force us to think hard about such questions, and perhaps sooner than we expect.
To test the hypothesis that macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is elevated in the circulation of individuals with acute spinal cord injury (SCI) compared with uninjured individuals.
Our findings expand observations from cross-sectional studies that reported elevated levels of IL-1Ra in the circulation of individuals with obesity and insulin resistance (8– 10).
This latter result may be a consequence of neutrophil priming within the circulation of individuals with CF and COPD due to persistent inflammation.
Mechanisms by which vascular damage is repaired are not well understood, but previous reports have suggested that two groups of ECs can be detected in the peripheral circulation of individuals with vascular damage.
Microchimeric cells are cells found in the blood circulation of one individual (the mother) but derived from another individual (the fetus) (1).
The strongest evidence to date suggests that the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6, which is readily detectable in the circulation of infected individuals regardless of the pathogenic trigger, is the main circulating mediator of hepatic HAMP mRNA expression [19] [22].
Currently it is not clear if the cardiac troponin release after ischemic injury is identical to that in circulation of healthy individuals.
Soluble N-cadherin (sN-CAD) can be found in the circulation of normal individuals, but is elevated in patients with breast, prostate and bladder carcinoma [ 11- 14].
