Introduction . Adenoid hypertrophy (pharyngeal tonsil hypertrophy) is considered as one of the most common diseases ENT organs. Aim To study polymorphism IL-10 gene (interleukin 10) and infections caused by human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6), cytomegalovirus (CMV) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in children with AH. Materials methods The included 106 adenoid 38 healthy aged 2 to 11 years. All were divided int...

• A multi-taxa Index of Biological Integrity can increase sensitivity to disturbance. Using multiple wetland classes improves consistency. Mix and match approach monitoring cost-effectiveness. Wetland indices biological integrity (IBIs) are a common component in the water resources as required by United States’ Clean Water Act (CWA). The effectiveness an IBI monitor disturbance is dependent on ...

We evaluated a smartphone app (TRESTIMATM) for forest sample plot measurements. The app interprets imagery collected from the sample plots using the camera in the smartphone and then estimates forest inventory attributes, including species-specific basal areas (G) as well as the diameter (DgM) and height (HgM) of basal area median trees. The estimates from the smartphone app were compared to fo...

Chronological skin aging is associated with flattening of the dermal-epidermal junction (DEJ), but to date no quantitative analysis focusing on the aging changes in the dermal papillae (DP) has been performed. The aim of the study is to determine the architectural changes and the collagen density related to chronological aging in the dermal papilla zone (DPZ) by in vivo harmonic generation micr...

Human and mouse granulocyte-macrophage-colony-stimulating factors (hGM-CSF and mGM-CSF, respectively), isolated from Escherichia coli cells expressing the corresponding human and mouse genes, have been characterized. The observed properties of the proteins have been compared with those properties which can be deduced from the DNA sequence alone and the published properties of natural GM-CSFs. T...

BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK AstaZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden AstraZeneca LP, Wilmington, DE, USA Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA HGM-McMaster Clinic, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Emergency and Cardiovascular Medicine, Sahlgrenska...

The effects of heat treatment and concentration of fish serum (FS) on cell growth and human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) production in an adhesion culture of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, DR1000L4N, were investigated. The addition of heat treated FS instead of non-heat-treated FS improved cell growth in terms of cell density, which reached 60% that...

Human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) induces proliferation and sustains the viability of the mouse interleukin-3-dependent cell line BA/F3 expressing the hGM-CSF receptor. Analysis of the antiapoptosis activity of GM-CSF receptor betac mutants showed that box1 but not the C-terminal region containing tyrosine residues is essential for GM-CSF-dependent antiapoptotic a...