RAINDROPS CARTOONS SERIES

Allograft therapy aims to benefit people who are older, lower-weight or have been through chemotherapy-all of whom have conditions that would give them a lower count of progenitor cells that could be used for their own therapy. Under FDA guidance, UCHealth will soon be one of the first sites to offer trials of these transplanted cells. Allograft therapyĪllograft therapy, where cells are taken from another patient’s body, may be the next generation of cellular therapy. Harvested cells are never taken to a lab or “grown” elsewhere – they remain at the patient’s bedside, per FDA regulation. These cells are placed back into the patient’s body at the injury site during that same visit. Tissue is then harvested from the body, and progenitor cells are derived from that tissue. If the procedure takes place in an operating room, the patient is put under anesthesia. When a patient comes in to one of our clinics, they receive a shot of local anesthetic, and wait a few minutes for numbness at the injection site to occur. This procedure can also be done in a clinic or in an operating room. BMA-C, or bone marrow aspirate-concentrate, takes bone marrow from the iliac crest (the bone you can feel at the hip area) and concentrates progenitor cells from that marrow.Adipose-derived cellular therapy, or fat tissue-derived cellular therapy, takes progenitor cells from the abdomen (front or flank), thigh or knee using minimally-invasive surgery techniques that can be done in a clinic or in an operating room.Nick Smith: Library Technician, Community Services, for the Pasadena Public Library in California.The types of cellular therapy are based on the tissue where the progenitor cells come from: fat tissue (adipose-derived cellular therapy), or bone marrow (bone marrow aspirate concentrate ), as well as whether the cells are taken from your own body (autologous) or from another person’s body (allograft). Abrams and Susan Sarandon is certainly intriguing, even if the blurbs themselves are a bit of a non sequitur. Still, a book whose cover blurbs were written by folks like J. Also, the penis and nipple jokes didn’t seem all that funny, and came across as the cartoonist just trying to outrage readers. Readers of alternative comic strips will find a lot to enjoy in this book, but those of a more conservative bent in their cartoon reading will find it less enjoyable. There is little or no subtlety in the book, including the title cartoon. Death by kitchen utensils, car-washing aliens, musical prodigies in pain and a host of other images test the imagination of readers, as some ideas are based on wordplay or stray thoughts turned into visual images by the cartoonist.Ī few of the comics have serious undertones, like his multi-panel piece about gentrification. Many involve odd bits of sex or violence, just because. These cartoons range from single gag panels to multi-panel extravaganzas of strangeness. Cartoons are another part of his life, and a creative and interesting part.įriedlander is a bit like Kliban mixed with The Far Side, but much weirder.

RAINDROPS CARTOONS SERIES

Those who recognize Friedlander’s name will probably know him best from the TV series he was on, 30 Rock, or from his standup comedy. If the Raindrops United: Drawings and Cartoons HCįormat: 208 pgs., 5-3/4' x 7-1/4', Hardcover

Raindrops cartoons