Laparoscopic Partial Splenectomy: A Critical Appraisal of an Emerging Technique. A Review of the First 457 Published Cases

SummaryThe effect of total and partial splenectomy on the number and production of circulating platelets was studied in mice. Five days after total and partial splenectomy the number of the peripheral blood platelets increased by 87% and 60%, respectively and the incorporation of 75selenium methionine (75Se-Met) into platelets was enhanced indicating that the thrombocytosis was due to increased platelet production. The results obtained by the two operative procedures were compared.Since previous work from our laboratory has shown that a factor produced by splenic lymphocytes affects the platelet number in mice, it is suggested that the differences in the number of circulating platelets observed in animals after total and partial splenectomy may reflect a difference in the number of spleen lymphocytes removed.

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Ownership without Legitimacy?

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2008-3-85-105 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 85-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

R. Kapeliushnikov

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Critical Appraisal ◽

Birth Trauma ◽

Fair Play ◽

Different Types

The paper examines the problem of legitimation of the privatization’s outcomes in Russia and provides a critical appraisal of various political proposals for its resolution. The analysis proceeds from a distinction between two different types of ownership illegitimacy: "definite" and "vague" ones. The paper argues that the "vague" illegitimacy that has evolved in Russia is not an absolute obstacle for economic growth but rather an institutional birth trauma which is common for all post-socialist countries and which could be cured only by piecemeal approaching of relationships between "strong" and "weak" economic actors to principles of fair play.

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Marx and the “law of value”: Critical appraisal on the occasion of his 200th birth anniversary

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-11-27-49 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 27-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

H. D. Kurz

Keyword(s):

Karl Marx ◽

Critical Appraisal ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Use Value ◽

Transformation Problem ◽

The Common ◽

The Law

The paper celebrates Karl Marx’ 200th birthday in terms of a critical discussion of the “law of value” and the idea that “abstract labour”, and not any use value, is the common third of any two commodities that exchange for one another in a given proportion. It is argued that this view is difficult to sustain. It is also the source of the wretched and unnecessary “transformation problem”. Ironically, as Piero Sraffa has shown, prices of production and the general rate of profits are fully determined in terms of the same set of data from which Marx started his analysis.

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