Soman, a powerful inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase, causes an array of toxic effects in the central nervous system including convulsions, learning and memory impairments, and, ultimately, death. We report on the protection afforded by postexposure antidotal treatments, combined with pyridostigmine (0.1 mg/kg) pretreatment, against these consequences associated with soman poisoning. Scopolamine...

The PARCTAB is a personal digital assistant (PDA) that communicates via infrared (IR) data-packets to a network of IR transceivers. The infrared network is designed for in-buildinguse, where each room becomes a communication cell. In contrast to the approach used by other PDAs, most PARCTAB applications run on remote hosts and therefore depend on reliable communication through the IR network. T...

Due to poor diagnostic facilities and a lack of medical alertness, allergy to Vespa wasps may be underestimated. Few allergens have been identified from Vespa wasps.Possible native allergen proteins were purified from the wasp venoms (WV) (Vespa magnifica Smith) by gel filtration, ion exchange chromatography, respectively. Their sequences were determined by Edman degradation and cDNA cloning. T...

The monoclonal antibodies Tab and AP3 are directed, respectively, against GPllb and GPllla, the subunits of the platelet fibrinogen receptor. When added together to platelets, these antibodies prevent adenosine diphosphate (ADPI-induced platelet aggregation, despite normal fibrinogen binding (Newman et al. Blood 69:668, 1987). To explore the cellular requirements of aggregation after fibrinogen...

Vol. 23: Fundamentals in Cancer Chemotherapy. Anticancer Symposium held in Connection with the 10th International Congress of Chemotherapy, Zurich, September 1977. Ed.: F. M. SCHABEL, Jr. (Birmingham, Ala.). VIII +3 04 p., 62 fig., 1 cpl., 91 tab., 1978 ISBN 3-8055-2830-2 Vol. 24: Application of Cancer Chemotherapy. Anticancer Symposium held in Connection with the 10th International Congress of...

Present work is a prospective study on UTI infected diabetic patients from Bangalore region, molecular character and antimicrobial susceptibility of Pseudomonas sp. infections. Among seventy seven samples, 10 % were identified as Pseudomonas sp. are isolated on C-TAB agar media and confirmed by morphological and biochemical tests. On testing antimicrobial activity by well diffusion methods, all...

Data curation presents a challenge to all scientific disciplines to ensure public availability and reproducibility of experimental data. Standards for data preservation and exchange are central to addressing this challenge: the Investigation-Study-Assay Tabular (ISA-Tab) project has developed a widely used template for such standards in biological research. This paper describes the application ...