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IRI-2fG ratio (medicine) and Alexander VI (sh)


IRI-2fG ratio (medicine)


IRI/G ratio


The ratio of immunoreactive insulin to serum or plasma glucose; in hypoglycaemic states a ratio of less than 0.3 is usual with the exception of the hypoglycaemia due to insulinoma, where the ratio is often higher than 0.3.


Alexander VI (sh)




orig. Rodrigo de Borja y Doms

born 1431, Jativa, Aragon
died Aug. 18, 1503, Rome

Pope (1492-1503).

Born into the Spanish branch of the Borgia family, he amassed great wealth and lived scandalously, fathering four illegitimate children (before his election as pope), who played an important role in his complicated dynastic plans. He warred against the Ottoman Turks and forced the French to abandon their effort to seize Naples. The murder of his son Juan (1497) prompted Alexander's short-lived attempt to restrain the corruption of the papal court. His political ambitions, however, were revived with the Marriage of his son Cesare, whose military campaigns brought northern Italy under Borgia control. He concluded an alliance with Spain and negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494). A patron of the arts, he embellished the Vatican palaces and commissioned Michelangelo to draw up plans for the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica.


Alexander VI, detail of a fresco by Pinturicchio, 1492-94; in the Vatican.

Alinari/Art Resource, New York