BACKGROUND Irradiation commonly causes long-term bone marrow injury charactertized by defective HSC self-renewal and a decrease in HSC reserve. However, the effect of high-dose IR on global gene expression during bone marrow recovery remains unknown. METHODOLOGY Microarray analysis was used to identify differentially expressed genes that are likely to be critical for bone marrow recovery. Mul...

A prospective study was undertaken on the incidence of intrauterine infections by screening 1302 cord blood samples for total IgM by radial immunodiffusion. Specific IgM against cytomegalovirus (CMV), rubella and Toxoplasma were estimated in cord blood samples found to contain total IgM > 20 mg/dl. All these neonates were examined at birth and at discharge. Cord blood samples with total IgM > 2...

This deliverable specifies the traffic handling mechanisms for the second trial. Traffic handling in AQUILA is composed of four related mechanisms operating at different time scales: provisioning (days to weeks), resource pools (hours), admission control (seconds to minutes), traffic control (milliseconds). Keyword List: AQUILA, QoS, Internet, Traffic Control, Admission Control, MBAC, Provision...

During an eight month prospective study, 8240 newborns were examined for detection of congenital dislocation of the hip from Oct. 23, 1991 to June 22, 1992. On fIrst examination we found 1302 neonates (158/1000 live births) to have abnormal hips 1063 (81.6%) were prone to subluxation (subluxatable), 218 (16.81 %) prone to dislocation (dislocatable), 17 (1.3%) were dislocated and 4 (0.3%) w...