Word: activationism
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The Laennec scientists speculated that cyclosporine produced this effect by depriving the AIDS virus of its favorite target, "activated" T-4 cells that are primed to defend the body. The virus reproduces inside these cells, destroying them in the process. Cyclosporine is known to prevent activation of T-4 cells...
By March 1985, when Slick Six is expected to be finished, some 250,000 cu. yds. of concrete will have been placed. The estimated cost of construction: $570 million. That, however, represents just a fraction of the budget. Equipping the center with the latest computers and gadgetry will run another...
Hobson's and McCarley's "activation-synthesis" theory provoked a heated controversy in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "The editor of the journal told us our article generated more letters than any in the history of the journal," Hobson says. Much of the response was negative, Hobson says, in part...
Hobson and co-researcher Dr. Robert W. McCarley, professor of Psychiatry, have been investigating the physiological aspects of dreaming for 12 years at the mental health center, by focusing on the relationship between Rapid Eye Movement (REM--the active dreaming stage of sleep) and a "dream center" in the brainstem...
In addition to the changes that survive today, the committee also recommended a Committee, on Students and Community Relations and re-activation of the University Council, a broader assemblage of deans and Faculty members than the Executive Council that Pusey consulted before the bust--although the Faculty formally approved these...