The three major blood disorders â anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia â will be examined in this protocol. Information as to the biology of these diseases and their conventional diagnosis and treatment will be presented; some emerging therapeutic strategies will be discussed as well.
The mazur and mazurek (i.e. small mazur), or in English mazurka, are general terms for a series of Polish folk dances in triple meter, which originated in the plains of Mazovia around Warsaw. The people of the province were called Mazurs; thus, the dance mazur bears the same name as the male inhabitant of the region.
The Mara Salvatrucha gang originated in Los Angeles and has spread to Central America, other parts of the United States, and Canada. It is commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13. There is some dispute about the etymology of the name. The most common belief is that the word Mara refers to the Spanish word for gang, and Salvatrucha (which is Spanish slang) for Salvadoran army ant. Alternatively, it is suggested that Salvatrucha refers to the Salvadoran peasant guerrillas, the source of much of the gang's early manpower.