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Arrested development: pop culture and the erosion of adulthood
Since the 1990s, both politics and pop culture have been dominated by the twin motifs of the victim and the child. Calcutt traces the history of these motifs back to their origins in the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, and concludes that the counterculture, far from being liberating, has provided a ready-made verbal and visual language for today's victim culture and the authoritarian politics arising from it. This title discusses the erosion of adulthood as a pop cultural phenomenon that requires demystification and as a social problem which must be overcome.
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Cells Isolated from Adult Human Skeletal Muscle Capable of Differentiating into Multiple Mesodermal Phenotypes
Wound healing is the response of tissue to injury that results in scar formation. Tissue regeneration would be a more ideal response. Previously, we have isolated a population of cells from avian, rodent, and rabbit skeletal muscle capable of differentiating into multiple mesodermal phenotypes. The present experiments were designed to determine whether a similar population of cells exist in human skeletal muscle. Separate cell preparations from skeletal muscle on an amputated leg of a 75-year-old female and the pectoralis muscle of a 27-year-old male were enzymatically dissociated and cultured to confluence in Eagle's minimal essential medium with 10 per cent preselected horse serum, then trypsinized, filtered, and slowly frozen in 7.5 per cent dimethylsulfoxide to -80° C. The cells were thawed and plated with the same media plus dexamethasone (a nonspecific differentiation agent) at 10–10–-10–6 M concentrations for up to 6 weeks. Immunological and histochemical staining assays were performed. Phenotypes observed included stem cells with typical stellate morphology (control), skeletal myotubes (anti-myosin), smooth muscle (anti-a-actin), bone (von Kossa stain), cartilage (Alcec blue), and fat (Sudan black B). These experiments establish the existence of a population of mesenchymal stem cells in human skeletal muscle capable of differentiating into multiple mesodermal phenotypes. The possibility exists of manipulating the mesenchymal stem cells to achieve appropriate regeneration of mesenchymal tissues in the injured patient.
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Strictly Personal
This chapter explores the way in which the emphasis on community in the prolonged aftermath of the Second World War gave shape to a model of British society in which the working class was disarmed – politically – just as it had been militarily demobilised after the war effort. In the contemporary period, it suggests that the British elite seeks to remobilise by proxy: by talking about and talking up community it is trying to talk itself into being one. In other words, it seems that the idea of community has less to do with imagined tradition and more to do with
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Think bigger. A response to the 'Diana' special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies
Calcutt reflects on the special issue of the 'Journal of Gender Studies' that focused on the Princess of Diana phenomenon that occurred after her death.
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