Macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), a CC chemokine, is a chemoattractant for T cells and immature dendritic cells. Plasmacytoma cells expressing MIP-1 alpha generate a cytotoxic T cell response without affecting tumor growth. To understand this discrepancy, we compared a local tumor model with a metastatic one using MIP-1 alpha-transfected B16 F10 melanoma cells. Clonal idios...

In this paper we provide a computation algorithm to get global solution for the maximum rank correlation estimator using mixed integer programming (MIP) approach. We construct new constrained optimization problem by transforming all indicator functions into binary parameters be estimated and show that it is equivalent original problem. also consider an application of best subset prediction can ...

BACKGROUND Glomerular crescents play an important role in progressive glomerular injury. The lesions consist of epithelial cells, macrophages and deposits of fibrin and extracellular matrix. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) are members of chemokine subfamilies. MCP-1 and MIP-2 are potent chemoattractant leukocyte cytokines, and they may be...

Maximal intensity projection (MIP) is routinely used to view MRA and other volumetric angiographic data. The straightforward implementation of MIP is ray casting that traces a volumetric data set in a computationally expensive manner. This article reports a fast MIP algorithm using shear warp factorization and reduced resampling that drastically reduced the redundancy in the computations for pr...

Facility layout problems have been generally solved either hierarchically or integrated into other phases of plant design. In this paper, a hybrid method is introduced so that clustering and facilities layout can be simultaneously optimized. Each cluster is formed by a group of connected facilities and selection of the most appropriate cluster configuration is aimed. Since exact method by MIP i...

This paper presents a Dynamic Reconfiguration of Mobile IP Agents (DRMIPA) and failure free architecture integrated in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). The proposal is due to the fact that: actual infra-structured networks do not implement the Mobile IP (MIP) protocol, all MIP agents are static and the cost of having redundancy for MIP agents’ failure is often high. As MANETs are created tempor...

New immunolocalization data put the role of the lens MP26 (MIP) protein in a new perspective. During maturation of lens fibre cells, MIP is found to associate specifically with two structures, gap junctions and cell interlocking processes (known as ball and socket domains). It is significant that the zone in which these associations are most striking is discrete, coinciding with the zone of rap...

The original Mobile IP (MIP) protocol does not perform route optimisation but uses Home Agents to forward traffic. Thus, it does not have problems with simultaneous mobility, i.e., the special case when both end hosts are mobile and move at about the same time. However, MIP for IPv6 (MIPv6) uses binding updates that are sent directly to a correspondent node. Session Initiation Protocol based mo...

Background. Minor papilla (MiP) cannulation is frequently performed using specialized small-caliber accessories. Outcomes data for MiP cannulation with standard-sized accessories are lacking. Methods. This is a case series describing MiP cannulation outcomes in consecutive patients treated by two endoscopists between July 2005 and November 2008 at two tertiary referral centers. MiP cannulation ...