This paper aims to shed light on the growing and use of flax in the Viking period, using archaeobotany and stable isotope analysis. The study material consists of lumps of thousands of flax seeds and associated weeds from the Late Iron Age site of Tjudnäs, and a mass find of cereal ...
1. Introduction Heat shock proteins (Hsps) comprise a large family of ubiquitously expressed stress proteins that constitute an endogenous stress response system to protect cells against insults such as hypoxia and ischemia. Numerous mutations in genes encoding Hsps have been implicated in many human ...