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.
One of the most plausible stories places the roots of kabuki in the Izumo region of Shimane. In 1572, a young girl was born to a blacksmith in Matsue. This girl went on to become a miko (a young girl who serves at a shrine) at Izumo Taisha. Her name was Izumo-no-Okuni, and she became the originator of what we now know as kabuki. As a miko at Izumo Taisha, she performed ritual dances for different ceremonies, and was quite talented.