Sacrifice, human

Pectoral muscle from adult Leghorn chickens was obtained from a local supermarket (the main source) or dissected immediately after sacrifice. Human skeletal muscle was obtained four hours post mortem from the pectoral and iliopsosas muscles of a 70-year-old black male who died of a gunshot wound to the head. 

M. Huzel, S. Sasmaz, S. Bakaris, E. Cetinus, E. Bilgic, A. Karaoguz, A. Ozkul and O. Arican, A viral infection of the hand commonly seen after the feast of sacrifice human orf (orf of the hand), Epidemiol. Infect., 2005, 133, 653-657. 

Christ in glory was the proto-type for perfected human flesh. This idea parallels the Galenic theory of balancing the bodily humours in a perfectly tempered body. Schwenckfeld, however, did not envisage perfection in these medical terms, but in that of an immortal body, divinely illuminated by Christ s sacrifice. The existence of Christ s glorified, but human body on earth testified that humans are not in essence natural bodies, but that their true form is that of Christ. In this argument, Schwenckfeld was relying on Paul s problematic account of the risen body. ... 

It is assumed that the proportion of exposed humans who will experience tumors during their lifetime may be deduced from the proportion of laboratory animals exhibiting tumors at the time of sacrifice. 

Initial stages in the production of murine monoclonals entail administration of the antigen of interest to a mouse. This is followed by sacrifice and recovery of activated B-lymphocytes from the spleen. A similar approach to the production of human monoclonals would be unethical. Administration of some antigens to humans could endanger their health. Although B-lymphocytes could be obtained from the peripheral circulation, the majority of these are unstimulated, and recovery of (stimulated) B-lymphocytes from the spleen is impractical. 

Mahatma Gandhi listed seven blunders of humanity Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles, Knowledge without character, and Science without humanity. 

Ubelaker et al. (1995) studied human remains from six shaft tombs excavated at La Florida, Quito, Ecuador, and dated to the Chaupicruz phase (ca. AD 100-450). They used isotopes to assess the dietary relationship between high-status individuals and the victims of sacrifice buried in the same tombs. 

Metabolism in the rat is qualitatively similar to that in humans. Four male and four female Wistar rats were exposed individually to 14C-labeled HFC134a at 10,000 ppm for 1 h (Ellis et al. 1993). Atmospheres were monitored with a gas chromatograph. After exposure, urine and feces were collected at 6 h intervals up to 24 h and every 24 h for up to 5 d thereafter. Approximately 1% of the inhaled dose was recovered in urine, feces, and expired air of that 1%, approximately two-thirds was exhaled within 1 h postexposure as unchanged HFC-134a. Exhaled C02 was the primary metabolite and accounted for approximately 0.22% and 0.27% of the inhaled dose in males and females, respectively. Excretion in the urine and feces occurred within 24 h and accounted for 0.09% and 0.04% of the inhaled dose, respectively. The only metabolite identified in urine was trifluoroacetic acid. At sacrifice, 5 d postexposure, radioactivity was uniformly distributed among tissues and accounted for 0.14-0.15% of the inhaled dose. The average total metabolized dose in male and female rats was 0.37% of the inhaled dose. 

In human society, suicide often seems an irrational and impulsive act. Not so in the society of cells in an organism. Like obedient soldiers making a personal sacrifice for the common good, excess cells, or those that pose a threat to the well-being of the organism often commit suicide on command, via an orderly process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis. 

I did not believe a word. She had never been Tonina Civran. The Maestro had put her up to this it was worse than merely using her as bait. It was human sacrifice. 

Artifact exportation limits, 506-507 Augustus. See Octavian Australia, Katipiri Formation, ESR dating of teeth, 3,5,61 Ayacucho, strontium isotope ratios, modem guinea pigs, 104-106 Aztec human sacrifices, sex determination by aDNA techniques, 79-80... 

High dilutions of drugs have been used on human patients for a couple of centuries, and animal experimentation has been done only to confirm their therapeutic effects and study their mode of action. High dilutions have been found to produce effects on such animals as rats, mice, birds, toads and fishes. The basic principle is to create a disease in the animals and test appropriate remedies on them. Some models like catalepsy and righting reflex ones are non-sacrifice animal models which can be easily used to test the biological effects of potentized drugs. Potentized Nux vomica significantly reduced alcohol intake in rats and reversed to some extent... 

Debora Shuger uses the term dogmatic humanism for this deployment of humanistic philology in the service of doctrine. See The Renaissance Bible Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (Berkeley, 1994), 22. 

Nowadays, the field of toxicology uses different in vivo models (mouse, rat, rabbit, among others) to evaluate the toxic potential of chemical compounds. These classical tests using animals present significant limitations regarding the applicability of the results to the case of humans, and pose ethical problems due to the use of animals. The application of the current European law implies the sacrifice of 12 million animals, corresponding to 20 billion by 2012. 

If one dose level of at least 1,000 mg/kg body weight (expected human exposure may indicate the need for a higher dose level), using the procedures described for this study, produces no observable toxic effects and if toxicity would not be expected based on data from structurally related compounds, a full study using three dose levels may not be necessary. A careful clinical examination should be made daily with appropriate actions taken to minimize the loss of animals, (e.g., by necropsy, refrigeration of animals found dead, or isolation and sacrifice of weak or moribund animals). 

Renal Effects. Proteinuria and darker urine were observed in rats that inhaled a dust of 4-nitrophenol at concentrations of 292 and 2,119 mg 4-nitrophenol/m for 2 weeks (Smith et al. 1988). These findings could not be interpreted as unequivocal evidence of kidney damage since they can also be present under unrelated conditions. Furthermore, no histological alterations were found in the kidneys. Similar findings were reported in rats exposed to 30 mg 4-nitrophenol dust/m for 4 weeks (Hazleton 1983). Kidney congestion was reported in rats that died prematurely in a 13-week gavage study (Hazleton 1989), but this effect was most likely caused by terminal hypoxia, since rats that survived did not exhibit kidney lesions at sacrifice. The available information regarding renal effects of 4-nitrophenol in animals is insufficient to assess the potential for renal effects in humans exposed to 2-nitrophenol or 4-nitrophenol. 

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