Natural killer (NK) activity against K-562 myeloid cell line was evaluated in 21 spleens and 14 lymph nodes from patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD). NK activity of eight HD-involved (HD+) spleens [556 lytic units (LU)] was found 5-fold higher than that of 13 HD-uninvolved (HD-) spleens (112 LU) (p less than 0.01). Moreover, NK activity of HD+ spleens was significantly different (p less than 0...

The natural frequencies and damping rates of surface waves in a circular cylinder with pinned-end boundary conditions are calculated in terms of the gravitational Reynolds and Bond numbers, C and B, and the slenderness of the cylinder A, in the limit C —>• 0. We consider higher-order approximations that include the effect of viscous dissipation in the Stokes boundary layers and the bulk. A comp...

The influences of curvatures and of physical properties on the mechanical stability of the spine were analysed by means of a three-dimensional, geometrical, nonlinear biomechanical model. According to the model, the initial buckling load decreases with increasing lordotic and kyphotic curvatures. When the body weight is taken into account as a load distributed along the whole spine, the calcula...

We find a sufficient condition that H is not level based on a reduction number. In particular, we prove that a graded Artinian algebra of codimension 3 with Hilbert function H = (h0, h1, . . . , hd−1 > hd = hd+1) cannot be level if hd ≤ 2d + 3, and that there exists a level Osequence of codimension 3 of type H for hd ≥ 2d+k for k ≥ 4. Furthermore, we show that H is not level if β1,d+2(I ) = β2,...

Differences in vascular reactivity between isolated ultrafiltration (i-UF) and hemodialysis (UF + HD) have been attributed to various factors, including differences in core temperature (CT) and energy transfer (ET). However, the relative importance of these thermal factors is not known. The aim of this study was to elucidate to what extent differences in ET are responsible for the divergent vas...

BACKGROUND Chronic renal failure (CRF) is associated with a high incidence of stroke. In particular, the mortality rate for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients with hemodialysis (HD) due to advanced stage CRF is high, and the annual number of such cases is increasing. Therefore, we retrospectively investigated 5 years of clinical data from patients with ICH in our institution to reveal diff...