Previously, we have described the selection of a plant-bacterium pair that is efficient in rhizoremediating naphthalene pollution in microcosm studies. After repeated selection for efficient root tip colonization upon inoculation of seeds of grass cv. Barmultra and for stable and efficient growth on naphthalene, Pseudomonas putida PCL1444 was selected as the most efficient colonizer of Barmultr...

John Timmons is Editor of Wounds UK and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Tissue Viability, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Exudate management is a challenge for the healthcare team as well as for the patient and despite a number of products being available, many patients still feel that exudate management is a significant problem, particularly for cavity wounds. Alginate dressings have been av...

was no burning during the act. A detailed vaginal examination was not possible since she had not attained puberty and the hymen admitted only one finger. There was bloodstained purulent exudate in the vagina and the cervix was high up. The uterus was small in size and appeared retroverted. There was a small congested area in the posterior vaginal wall about half an inch from the vaginal outlet....

peritoneal exudate cells differ from the resident peritoneal cells obtained from unstimulated animals. The most characteristic difference between the two kinds is the •gstickiness" of the former cells as manifested by failure to migrate from a cell mass packed by centrifugation in a capillary tube (David et al., 1964; Bloom and Bennett, 1966). McLaughlin, Ruddle and Waksman (1972) reported that...

To prevent blindness from diabetic retinopathy, periodic screening and early diagnosis are neccessary. Due to lack of expert ophthalmologists in rural area, automated early exudate (one of visible sign of diabetic retinopathy) detection could help to reduce the number of blindness in diabetic patients. Traditional automatic exudate detection methods are based on specific parameter configuration...

Pleural effusion is a common clinical problem. In the normal state, the pleural cavity is bathed in a small volume of physiologic pleural fluid containing mainly macrophages and lymphocytes. The volume of the pleural fluid can increase dramatically with most pathologic conditions affecting the pleura. The pleural effusion will alter the respiratory mechanics, commonly resulting in dyspnea. It i...

In lobar pneumonia due to the fixed types of pneumococci a specific precipitin reaction is obtained when the pneumonic exudate is mixed with the homologous antipneumococcic serum.

Acute inflammation was induced by injecting carrageenan into a 6 day old air pouch in mice. Sodium aurothiomalate was then given twice to each of three groups of mice via different routes. It was found that the mice injected intravenously with sodium aurothiomalate showed the most striking reduction in the number of exudate leucocytes in the inflammatory cavity, although the amount of gold foun...

Parameters of iron uptake have been determined for blade tissue of Macrocystis pyrifera (L.) C. Ag. These include the effects of iron concentration, light, various inhibitors, and blade type. All experiments were conducted in the defined artificial seawater Aquil. Iron uptake is light independent, energy dependent, and dependent on the reduction from Fe(3+) to Fe(2+). Iron is concentrated in th...

The question as to whether the various types of mononuclear phagocyte found in bone marrow cultures and recognized by specific peroxidatic (PO) activity patterns differ in the expression of binding sites for the lectin wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA) and the activity of the ectoenzyme 5'nucleotidase (5'N) was investigated. Monoblasts, promonocytes, monocytes, and/or exudate macrophages, and exudate...