background: many health problems are related to lifestyle and dietary factors. since ancient times, food additives such as sulfites have been used to preserve foods. diverse effects of sulfites on multiple organs have been reported but its effect on female reproductive organ has not been fully elucidated. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of sodium metabisulfite (smb) on ovar...

Abstract. The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) will be losing mass at an accelerating pace throughout the 21st century, with a direct link between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and magnitude of loss. Currently, approximately 60 % loss contribution comes from surface melt subsequent meltwater runoff, while 40 are due to ice calving. In ablation zone covered by bare in summer, most energy is p...

Previous studies using post-mortem human brain extracts demonstrated that PrP in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) brains is cleaved by a cellular protease to generate a C-terminal fragment, referred to as C2, which has the same molecular weight as PrP-(27-30), the protease-resistant core of PrP(Sc) (1). The role of this endoproteolytic cleavage of PrP in prion pathogenesis and the identity of th...

Proper surveillance of virus activity and a timely response to viral outbreaks depend upon the rapid diagnosis of viral infections. The immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (MAC-ELISA) is a fast, sensitive test routinely used for the diagnosis of the medically important West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis flaviviruses. However, the suckling mouse brain-deri...

Objective Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging nosocomial pathogen that causes fatal infections in critically ill or immunocompromised patients. S. maltophilia bacteremia (SMB) is a rare condition, and its clinical characteristics in Japanese settings are not well known. Methods The medical charts of patients with SMB were retrospectively reviewed at two medical facilities (Okayama Unive...

PURPOSE Lutein and zeaxanthin are macular pigments with a protective function in the retina. These xanthophylls must be obtained from the diet or added to foods or supplements via easy-to-use, stable formulations. The technique employed to produce these formulations may affect the bioavailability of the xanthophylls. METHODS Forty-eight healthy volunteers were randomized into this double-blin...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the long-term efficacy and dynamics of systolic and diastolic luminal changes within the bridged segments of coronary arteries after intracoronary stenting with drug-eluting stent (DES) in patients (pts) with symptomatic myocardial bridging (SMB) in the absence of coronary atherosclerosis. BACKGROUND Although myocardial bridging (MB) rep...

Conventional batch chromatography is relatively inefficient in terms of adsorbent and solvent consumption and significant benefits can be achieved by performing separation of high-added value products, such as enantiomers produced in the pharmaceutical industry, with a simulated moving bed (SMB) process (Lehoucq et al., 2000). The SMB process allows a counter-current movement of the liquid and ...

We present the results of an integrated matching system which is the result of a cooperation project between the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. We have integrated the GeRoMeSuite system (from RWTH Aachen) and SMB (from Technion). Both tools aim at matching schemas; while GeRoMeSuite offers a variety of matchers, SMB provides the information ...

This paper studies a superconducting maglev submersible cryogenic liquid pump (CLP) using magnetic bearing (SMB). A new structure is proposed for the self-stability of high-temperature levitation, and compact disk motor-pump. The rotor axial-flux motor connected with centrifugal impeller to form an impeller-rotor CLP. Supported by SMB system, rotates frictionlessly self-stabilisation as suspens...