João Manuel Varela, Cape Verdean scientist and poet (Mindelo, São Vicente Island 07 June 1937 - Mindelo, São Vicente Island 07 August 2007)
Described Varela syndrome
Atrophie systématisée de la formation réticulaire. Syndrome de dyshoméostasie du névraxe. Revue Neurologique (Paris), 16:437-440, 1967
Described seaweed Chondriella isecmarius
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Diphenol oxidase isoenzymes in the rabbit choroid and retina/retinal pigment epithelium. Abstracts of the 34th Annual Meeting AER, Granada, 93, 1993.
Isoenzymic patterns of tyrosinase in the rabbit choroid and retina/retinal pigment epithelium. Experimental Eye Research 60:621-629, 1995
Tetrapexity: a theory of pattern formation – Taking a special look at the brain, multicellularity, DNA and a few other biological macromolecules, ANERP, 1997.
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