BACKGROUND Protein deficiency is a major problem in critically ill patients. Egg white powder recently became a standard additive for protein supplementation in our unit. However, clinical data are not available to support egg white powder supplementation compared to standard protein casein supplementation. This study aimed to determine the change of serum prealbumin (PAB) levels of egg white p...

To test the hypothesis that coronary flow and coronary flow reserve are developmentally regulated, we used fluorescent microspheres to investigate the effects of acute (6 h) pulmonary artery banding (PAB) on baseline and adenosine-enhanced right (RV) and left ventricular (LV) blood flow in two groups of twin ovine fetuses (100 and 128 days of gestation, term 145 days, n = 6 fetuses/group). With...

In the following, we report our findings obtained as a result of injecting an acrylic pigment in the arteries supplying the pectoralis minor muscle in 50 lateral chests of 26 Japanese adults (15 males and 11 females). In the pectoralis minor muscle, the muscular bundle near the terminal is supplied by A. processus coracoideris (Pc, Sato-Takafuji, '85) or A. coracobrachialis (Cb, Sato, '80) of A...

Based on the polyclonal antibody (pAb), an indirect competitive ELISA (icELISA) has been developed for the determination of ractopamine (Rac) residue in swine and cattle. Mixed anhydride method was employed to synthesize the immunogen while 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether was used to synthesize the coating antigen, thus producing the heterologous sensitivity; and two female New Zealand white ra...

3) Affiliations ≠ Quantum Theory Project and Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8435 USA; § Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, INQUIMAE-CONICET. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Ciudad Universitaria, Pab. 2, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ¶ Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad d...

Polyclonal antibody (PAb) with broad-specificity for O,O-diethyl organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) against a generic hapten, 4-(diethoxyphosphorothioyloxy)benzoic acid, was produced. The obtained PAb showed high sensitivity to seven commonly used O,O-diethyl OPs in a competitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ciELISA) using a heterologous coating antigen, 4-(3-(diethoxyphosphorothi...

The phenoxy alkyl benzimidazoles (PABs) have good antitubercular activity. We expanded our structure-activity relationship studies to determine the core components of PABs required for activity. The most potent compounds had minimum inhibitory concentrations against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the low nanomolar range with very little cytotoxicity against eukaryotic cells as well as activity a...

Future satellite communication systems proposed use geosynchronous (GEO) satellites, medium earth orbit (MEO), and low earth orbit (LEO) constellations with fast packet switching and quality of service (QoS) provisioning. In this paper, we present broadband GEO, MEO and LEO satellite network QoS models and simulated performance results. This paper proposes a new method of bandwidth allocation d...

Despite the widespread prevalence of canine parvovirus disease (CPV) in Iranian dog population,molecular diagnosis of CPV variants, and investigation of the trends of its genetic changes is a new effort. Inthis study 50 samples from dogs suspicious of infection with clinical signs of diarrhea and vomiting, and 25samples from dogs suspected of infection with general symptoms su...

ABSTRACT Calla lily chlorotic spot virus (CCSV) isolated from central Taiwan was recently identified as a tospovirus serologically but distantly related to Watermelon silver mottle virus (WSMoV). To clarify the serological relationship between the two viruses, rabbit polyclonal antibody (PAb) to CCSV and mouse monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to WSMoV NP or CCSV NP were produced in this investigati...