Word: reaction
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Declaration of War. The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reflected the attitude of many older Germans when it called the student protests "a declaration of war against society." Other observers, however, applaud the youthful activities. They see it all as a fitting reaction to the authoritarianism that is still prevalent on German campuses. They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition...
...Mustard of Hamilton, Ont., asked for a new look at the phenomenon of clotting inside blood vessels, including coronary arteries. In the past ten years, he said, it has been shown that formation of a thrombus that will plug an artery is a complex process following an inflammatory reaction and involving an aggregation of platelets, the smallest solid elements in the blood. It may be possible, he suggested, to use anti-inflammatory drugs to control or prevent some kinds of thrombus formation. But by the same token, it may be unwise to give such drugs-even aspirin-to a patient...
...some times seems clear: the cortisone group of hormones strengthens the lysosome membrane, making it less likely to spill out its enzymes. But the field is booby-trapped with paradoxes. If a rat is given a local injection of histamine, a notorious cause of inflammation, it has a strong reaction. But if the rat first gets a histamine shot into its abdominal cavity, said Dr. Glenn, a later local injection will have little effect...
...symposium experts admitted that they were bewildered by the complexities of inflammation. If they were red-faced, it was appropriate. As U.C.L.A.'s Dr. Carl Pearson pointed out, the redness of measles is not a direct result of the virus invasion but a consequence of the inflammatory reaction by which the body tries to cure itself...
...many varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by rash, fever, swollen glands and pain in the joints. In a few cases, the response is so fast and catastrophic that it is called anaphylactic shock, a violent reaction usually associated with the introduction of foreign protein into the system. A patient thus afflicted may die within minutes...