Influenza vaccines that target the highly variable surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase cause inconvenience of having vaccination every year. For this reason, development of universal vaccines targeting conserved viral components is needed. In this study, we generated recombinant adenovirus (rAd) vaccine encoding nucleoprotein (NP) of A/PR/8/34 influenza virus, designated rAd/N...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the validity of criteria for indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited reactive attachment disorder (RAD). METHOD As part of a longitudinal intervention trial of previously institutionalized children, caregiver interviews and direct observational measurements provided continuous and categorical data used to examine the internal cons...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can migrate to the tumor site and integrate into the tumor tissue. As a delivery vehicle of antitumor factors, MSCs have been tried in various tumor therapies. NK4 can both inhibit the growth, metastasis, and invasion of tumor cells induced by hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and suppress tumor angiogenesis that is independent on HGF/cellular-mesenchymal-to-transitio...

sarcoplasmic reticulum release. Conversely, 70% Rad knockdown by RNA interference increased ICa (50%), [Ca ]i transients (52%) and contractility (58%) without altering EC coupling efficiency; and the dominant negative mutant RadS105N exerted a similar effect on ICa. Rad upregulation caused depolarizing shift of LCC activation and hastened time-dependent LCC inactivation; Rad downregulation, how...

The pulse CO-oximeter (Rad-57 Masimo Corporation, Irvine, CA) allows non-invasive and instantaneous measurement of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb) percentage level using a finger probe. However, the accuracy and reliability of the Rad-57 against the gold standard of venous or arterial blood samples have not been clearly established. Thus, the objective of this trial is to eva...

Activation of D4 receptors (D4Rs) has been shown to improve cognitive performance, potentially affecting synaptic strength. We investigated the D4R agonist PD 168077 (PD) in hippocampal CA1 of freely moving mice. We electrically stimulated in stratum oriens (OR) or radiatum (RAD) and evoked local field potentials (LFPs). Intraperitoneally injected PD dose-dependently and reversibly attenuated L...

PURPOSE To evaluate the combined role of mescenchymal stem cells (MSCs) infected with recombinant adenoviruses expressing human BDNF (rAd/hBDNF) on the erectile dysfunction in rat with cavernous nerve injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS Rats divided into 4 groups: control group, bilateral cavernous nerve crushing group (BCNC group), BCNC with MSCs group and BCNC with MSCs infected with rAd/hBDNF gr...

Catlin et al. [1, Corollary 9A] characterised the graphs G with the property that ham(G) > rad(G) + 1 where ham(G) and rad(G) stand for the hamiltonian index and the radius of G, respectively. Here a slightly stronger result is presented. In effect, the graphs for which ham(G) > rad(G) holds are characterised in a similar way.