The Nature of RH Agglutination Reactions: DR. ALEXANDER S. WIENER, EvE B. SONN and RUTH B. BELKIN. Use of Terms Relating to Vegetation: PRoFESSoR ARTHUR G. VESTAL. Notes on "A Flowmeter for Use in Air Sampling Procedures": DR. LESLIE SILVERMAN ..................................................................... Special Articles: Control of Gram-Negative Bacteria in Experimen87 tal Animals by S...

Dr. Abbasali Sanadgol is an associate professor in rangelands and forests research institute, IRAN, He is retired now. He earned his undergraduate and master degrees in natural resources and range management in 1976 and 1992 respectively from natural resources faculty of Tehran University and worked as a natural resources and range management researcher for 29 years at education and research ag...

Patients with advanced squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (SCCHN) are frequently immunocompromised. Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen-presenting cells that play a role in antitumor immune responses. Using multicolor flow cytometry, the percentages of lineage-negative (LIN(-)) and DR(+) DC precursors, as well as their LIN(-)DR(+)CD11c(+) (myeloid) and LIN(-)DR(+)CD123(+) (lymph...

Several studies have previously demonstrated enrichment in primitive progenitor cells in subfractions of CD34+ bone marrow (BM) cells not expressing CD38 or HLA-DR (DR) antigens. However, no studies have directly compared these two cell populations with regard to their content of primitive and more committed progenitor cells. Flow cytometric analysis of immunomagnetic isolated CD34+ cells demon...

An expansion of different myeloid derived suppressive cell (MDSC) subsets can be detected in the blood and secondary lymphoid organs of early and advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients. Double negative (CD14-HLA-DR-) MDSCs are frequently induced by PDACs. In addition, by releasing S100A8 and S100A9, advanced PDAC lesions cause an expansion of highly immunosuppressive CD33+CD1...

We thank Dr Mubareka and Dr Rubinstein for their thoughtful commentary [1] related to our recent publication on aerosolized colistin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in patients without cystic fibrosis [2]. We would like to provide some additional clarifications related to the formulation of colistin used in our study because the commen...

The American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project and its accompanying Essays on APS Classic Papers have allowed the scientific community on-line access to the entire collection of APS publications since their inception in 1898 (http://www.the-aps.org/publications/legacy/ and http://www.the-aps.org/publications/classics/). The availability of the classic physiological studies provides a u...

We read with interest Dr Duggal’s letter on the combined use of atypical antipsychotics (AAs) and cognitivebehavioural therapy (CBT) in schizophrenia (1). Dr Duggal reports that his patient showed a reduction of 54% in symptom severity as indexed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). His baseline score when unmedicated was 129 and varied from 83 to 102 with medication; when medic...

SUMMARY. .................................................................................6 CHAPTER I ..........................................................................................................7 INTRODUCTION Background.....................................................................................................7 Problem Statement...............................................