The minimum alveolar concentration of anesthetic (MAC) necessary to prevent movement in response to a painful stimulus was relatively constant in dogs anesthetized with halothane. MAC varied over a two-fold range with the intensity of the stimulus, but appeared to reach an upper limit beyond which a further increase in intensity did not increase MAC. For the same stimulus MAC was constant from ...

DNA is eliminated during development of the somatic MACronucleus from the germinal MICronucleus in the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila. Facultatively persistent sequences are a class of sequences that persist in the MAC DNA of some cell lines but are eliminated from the MAC DNA of other cell lines. One cloned MAC fragment contains a persistent sequence as well as sequences normally ...

Both human integrin receptors Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18,CR3)and lymphocyte function-associated antigen (LFA)-1 (CD11a/CD18) have been demonstrated to bind human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) (CD54). Here we show that LFA-1 and Mac-1 can bind to ICAM-1 in the mouse as well. Interestingly, we observed that binding of murine LFA-1 dominates over Mac-1 for binding to ICAM-1. Using three differ...

Adherence of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) to human respiratory epithelial cells (HEp-2) induced 2 distinct modes of internalization. In the first, MAC induced ruffling of HEp-2 cell membrane and formation of surface projections securing the bacilli on the surface, and concurrent membrane depressions, beneath the sites of attachment of bacilli, resulted in internalization of the organisms. ...

در این تحقیق به مقایسه تحلیلی و عددی آبشار جریان برگشتی مدل R با آبشارهای Q QI سیستم‌­های چندجزیی پایدار پرداخته می‌­شود. راستا برای اولین بار کدهای جهت طراحی منظور کد نرم‌افزار متلب نوشته شده‌­اند. نتایج نشان می‌­دهد که دو جزء 1k 2k از خوراک Nc جزء، تعداد معدودی قابل تعریف است همگی حالات خاصی می­‌باشد. هم‌­چنین یافته‌­ها مجموع مقدار برش جزیی همیشه برابر یک است. طریق داده می‌­شود صورتی میانگین ...

Keywords: MAC protocol Wireless sensor networks Fire emergency a b s t r a c t We introduce ER-MAC, a novel hybrid MAC protocol for emergency response wireless sensor networks. It tackles the most important emergency response requirements, such as autonomous switching from energy-efficient normal monitoring to emergency monitoring to cope with heavy traffic, robust adaptation to changes in the ...

Mac-1 (alphambeta2), a leukocyte adhesion receptor, has been shown in vitro to functionally interact with Fcgamma receptors to facilitate immune complex (IC)-stimulated polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) functions. To investigate the relevance of Mac-1-FcgammaR interactions in IC-mediated injury in vivo, we induced a model of Fc-dependent anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) nephritis in wil...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to separate MAC lung disease from colonization and to define indications for treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY Over 4 years, we evaluated patients who had positive MAC cultures, MAC infection and coinfection with MTB. In the first study, 42 immunocompetent patients with sputum or BAL culture positive only for MAC during a single year (2004) were r...