The thymic medulla plays a key role in negative selection (self-tolerance induction) and contains differentiated T cells en route to the extrathymic environment. However, being relatively mature, medullary T cells are thought to be beyond the stage of tolerance induction. This paradox is resolved by the finding that medullary T cells (CD4+8- thymocytes) comprise two distinct subsets. Medullary ...

Abstract—In rough set models, tolerance relation, similarity relation and limited tolerance relation solve different situation problems for incomplete information systems in which there exists a phenomenon of missing value. If two objects have the same few known attributes and more unknown attributes, they cannot distinguish them well. In order to solve this problem, we presented two improved l...

an r-module m is called strongly noncosingular if it has no nonzero rad-small (cosingular) homomorphic image in the sense of harada. it is proven that (1) an r-module m is strongly noncosingular if and only if m is coatomic and noncosingular; (2) a right perfect ring r is artinian hereditary serial if and only if the class of injective modules coincides with the class of (strongly) noncosingula...

UNLABELLED Aims/Introduction:  The computed tomography (CT) value of the pancreas was examined across the range of glucose tolerance, and the relationships between pancreatic CT values and factors responsible for glucose intolerance were analyzed. MATERIALS AND METHODS   A total of 167 health-check examinees were classified into normal glucose tolerance (NGT), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)...