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But the motive factor remains elusive.
After the success of Murakami's epic The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , this novel of a middle-aged man's attempts to rekindle a romance with an elusive childhood friend disappoints critics.
Cytokines produced by TECs have been shown to promote proliferation in early stages of thymocyte development, and have been proposed to regulate apoptosis and differentiation, although their precise roles remain controversial [ 23 24 ] . TECs have also been shown to promote thymocyte proliferation in SP cells after selection has occurred [ 15 ] . However, a defined role for TECs at the TN-DP transition remains elusive.
Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.
" 'Hockey,' performed to Cole Porter's 'Every Time We Say Goodbye' and to music by Alkistis Protopsaltis, is a gliding in-line skating duet for the deliciously goofy Tony Guglietti as the Player and Cheryl Lewis as the Elusive Puck who tames him."