Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) have been suggested to play an important role in controlling human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1 or simply HIV) infection. HIV, due to its high mutation rate, can evade recognition of T cell responses by generating escape variants that cannot be recognized by HIV-specific CTLs. Although HIV escape from CTL responses has been well documented, factors contributing t...

this paper investigates the importance of considering biomass growth and decay for predicting a field scale microbial degradation of btex plume in an unconfined aquifer system in the pump station area of tehran oil refinery (tor), iran. a two-dimensional finite volume model has been presented to predict multi-species reactive transport incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes i...

Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give the completely general result demonstrating that this severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary. In addition we correct and extend some results concerning Ki...

The HKM / HFX cryptosystem is proposed for standardization at the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector Study Group 8. It is designed to provide authenticity and colffidentiality of FAX messages at a commercial level of security. In addition, the HKM / HFX cryptosystem is designed for unrestricted export. This paper contains the results of an analysis of the HKM/HFX cryptosystem. Eleven ...

BACKGROUND Live attenuated SIV vaccines are highly efficacious, but how they mediate protection is poorly understood. A feature of the effectiveness of live attenuated vaccines is their ability to control high dose challenge viruses early, without a large peak of acute viraemia. We hypothesized that long-lived antigen exposure from live attenuated SIV may result in CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes ...

Line 1, a chemically induced guinea pig hepatoma, is susceptible to killing by anti-Forssman immunoglobulin M antibody and guinea pig complement. When these tumor cells are pretreated with insulin, L-epinephrine, hydrocortisone, or prednisolone, the cells show a marked reduction in their susceptibility to antibody-complement-mediated killing within 15 to 60 min; this effect reverses within 4 hr...

Amphotericin B (AMB), micafungin, and caspofungin MICs, minimal fungicidal concentrations, and time-killing curves were determined in the presence and absence of 10% inactivated serum. AMB was the only agent with consistent killing activity (time required to achieve 99.9% of growth reduction was 2.1 to 3.2 h). The presence of serum enhanced caspofungin activity but lowered those of micafungin a...

Both the magnitude and function of vaccine-induced HIV-specific CD8+ CTLs are likely to be important in the outcome of infection. We hypothesized that rapid cytolysis by CTLs may facilitate control of viral challenge. Release kinetics of the cytolytic effector molecules granzyme B and perforin, as well as the expression of the degranulation marker CD107a and IFN-gamma were simultaneously studie...

This paper, the first of a series on the regulation of the hematopoIetic stem cell, examines the effects of stem cell kinetics during an acute exposure to hypoxichypoxia. This physiologic perturbation was chosen because of the well-established role It plays In Influencing erythropoiesis. BDF, male mice were exposed to a simulated altitude of 22,000 ft for periods of time ranging from 3 to 48 hr...

This paper, the first of a series on the regulation of the hematopoIetic stem cell, examines the effects of stem cell kinetics during an acute exposure to hypoxichypoxia. This physiologic perturbation was chosen because of the well-established role It plays In Influencing erythropoiesis. BDF, male mice were exposed to a simulated altitude of 22,000 ft for periods of time ranging from 3 to 48 hr...