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The neighborhood is named for the main beach in town, Los Muertos (the Dead) — however, the city fathers prefer a kinder, gentler nomenclature, and have unsuccessfully tried to rename it “Zona Romántica,” and the beach, “Playa del Sol” (just so you’ll know when you see the many street signs).
In recent years a gleaming new high-rise zona turista has sprung up to confront the old-world hotels and distinguished quintas (rural estates) of Madeira’s more peaceful past.
These mice also develop autoimmunity against thyroid and gastric parietal cells [ 22 ] . It is well established that these mice with ovarian autoimmunity also develop circulating autoantibodies against the oocyte cytoplasm, the zona pellucida, and against steroid producing cells [ 22 ] . While we found evidence that one half of our patients had specific antibodies directed against the zona pellucida, we did not find any consistent pattern of immunofluorescence to suggest that our patients had antibodies directed against the oocyte cytoplasm or the steroid producing cells of the ovary.
It is also known as the Zona Dorado, or Golden Acapulco.
The three proteins that comprise the zona pellucida (ZP1, ZP2 and ZP3) and their roles in sperm-binding are well characterized [ 1 ] . In contrast, little is known about the surface proteins of the egg plasma membrane.