Starting in January, the 10 schools, with support from Dr. Emdin and his graduate students, will experiment with cyphers and rhymes to teach basic science concepts — one class per school, one day per week.
β1-integrin also colocalizes with cypher-GFP, another Z-disk marker in myocardial cells (Fig. 2F).
A spokesman for Cordis, Martin Schildhouse, said the company's analysis of the reports of side effects suggested that blood clots were no more common with the Cypher than with bare-metal stents.
To calm jitters over costs, J&J released last month a study that found that hospital costs were $2,800 higher with the Cypher stent than with bare metal devices.
The incidence of plaque prolapse was 41% (17 of 41 lesions) with the Cypher stents versus 24% (10 of 41 lesions) with the Taxus stents after 14 atm (p = 0.096) and 35% (14 of 40) in Cypher stents versus 17.8% (5 of 28) in Taxus stents after 20 atm (p = 0.17).
Dr. Reduto said that the overall incidence of thrombosis with the Cypher stent appeared to be no greater than that associated with stents that had not been coated with a drug.
Unlike Seven Years in Tibet - released around the same time, and starring the peroxided Brad Pitt as a Nazi fugitive who forms an unlikely friendship with the young Dalai Lama - Kundun does not provide western audiences with a cypher character.
In a statement, Dr. Campbell Rogers, chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson's cardiovascular unit, the Cordis Corporation, said, "The breadth of clinical safety and efficacy data and the long-term patient outcomes associated with the Cypher stent are completely unmatched by the competition, and this gap continues to widen".
Fourteen stents were bare metal coronary stents (Bx Sonic, Johnson & Johnson, Cordis, USA), and 14 had an anti-proliferative coating with sirolimus (Cypher Select, Johnson & Johnson, Cordis, USA), respectively.
It is easy to drift out of Paradiso half-expecting someone to confront you with a cypher on the subway.
