OBJECTIVE To establish the method of isolation and culture of human glioblastoma neurospheres, and the purification of their stem cells, followed by the process of obtaining tumor subspheres, immunophenotypically characterizing this clonogenic set. METHODS Through the processing of glioblastoma samples (n=3), the following strategy of action was adopted: (i) establish primary culture of gliob...

The application of somatic stem cells has been shown to support the recovery of the myocardium in end-stage heart failure. A novel method for the intraoperative isolation and labeling of bone marrow-derived stem cells was established. After induction of general anesthesia, up to 400 mL of bone marrow were harvested from the posterior iliac crest and processed in the operating room under good ma...

Our purpose in this study was to evaluate performance and capacity as defined by Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) and Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) from the 'activity limitation' perspective of International Classification of Functioning,Disability, and Health (ICF) and to investigate the relationship between the two classification systems in different subtypes o...

BACKGROUND The Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) has become an important tool to describe motor function in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) was developed recently as a corresponding classification of manual ability. The aim of this study was to describe the association between gross motor function and manual ability in a total ...

INTRODUCTION Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most efficient antigen presenting cells, which are considered a central component of the immune system for their extraordinary capacity to initiate and modulate the immune responses elicited upon recognition of infectious agents. This has made them a major focus of interest in the conception of immunotherapeutic vaccine strategies. AIM OF THE STUDY T...

objective: it is believed that monocyte isolation methods and maturation factors affect the phenotypic and functional characteristics of resultant dendritic cells (dc). in the present study, we compared two monocyte isolation methods, including plastic adherence-dendritic cells (adh-dc) and magnetic activated cell sorting- dendritic cells (macs-dc), and their effects on phagocytic activity of d...

On behalf of the European Commission, this study establishes empirically the annual leakage rate of mobile air conditioners (MACs) in buses and coaches for the use-phase of the vehicles. In buses, refills are carried out in relatively short service intervals to compensate for leakages whatever their nature. Such refills are recorded over a sufficiently long time and in appropriate detail in Swe...

In today’s lecture we study one-time message authentication codes (MACs) which are secure in an information-theoretic sense. We will see that, compared to informationtheoretically secure encryption, significantly better parameters can be achieved. We will also study such MACs in the setting of imperfect randomness, i.e. when the secret key is not drawn from the uniform distribution but rather i...

In this paper, we revisit the security of several message authentication code (MAC) algorithms based on block ciphers, when instantiated with 64-bit block ciphers such as DES. We essentially focus on algorithms that were proposed in the norm ISO/IEC 9797–1. We consider both forgery attacks and key recovery attacks. Our results improve upon the previously known attacks and show that all algorith...

A block cipher or message authentication code (MAC) should behave as a random mapping. The mapping’s randomness can be evaluated with statistical tests. Statistical test suites typically used for this purpose, such as the NIST test suite, are not well-suited for block ciphers and MACs; also, these test suites employ a frequentist approach, making it difficult to obtain an overall evaluation of ...