BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Platelet storage lesions (PSL) are detrimental to the post transfusion functional capacity of platelets. As EDTA enhances the storage-induced changes, changes in platelet indices with and without EDTA incubation are promising new tests to monitor the PSL. The present study was undertaken to monitor the PSL in 40 units of pooled platelet concentrates harvested by platelet...

The mechanisms by which the antifreeze protein (AFP) modifies the ice morphology are identified precisely as surface poisoning by the ice binding surface (IBS) of insect AFPs and as bridge-induced surface reconstruction by the IBS of fish AFPs and antifreeze glycoproteins. The primary surfaces of hexagonal ice have predetermined face indices. The “two-dimensional” insect type IBS has regularly ...

Abstract We present early results regarding the morphological and structural properties of galaxies seen with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at z > 3 in Early Release Observations toward SMACS 0723 cluster field. Using JWST we investigate, for first time, optical morphologies a significant number accurate photometric redshifts this field to determine form galaxy structure relatively unive...

Tabanus pseudonebulosus, new species, is described based on 217 female specimens and 5 males collected in Venezuela (Guarico, Aguaio, Santa Elena, and Palmarito) and in Brazil (Parcí: Santana do Araguaia, Serra das Andorinhas in São Geraldo do Araguaia, Serra Norte Carajás and Gorotire; Amazonas: Canutama; Mato Grosso do Sul: Corumbá), mostly in open vegetation, scrub forest and in rocky enviro...

Coherent light scattering presents complex spatial patterns that depend on morphological and molecular features of biological cells. We present a numerical approach to establish realistic optical cell models for generating virtual cells and accurate simulation of diffraction images that are comparable to measured data of prostate cells. With a contourlet transform algorithm, it has been shown t...

We reviewed the clinical and morphological findings in 43 cases of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). 9 of smoldering multiple myeloma (5MM). and 23 of overt multiple myeloma (MM). In all cases. the patients physicians had requested a bone marrow examination because of the possibility of MM. In all 75 cases. 3H-thymidine labeling indices were performed. The plasma cell l...

We reviewed the clinical and morphological findings in 43 cases of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). 9 of smoldering multiple myeloma (5MM). and 23 of overt multiple myeloma (MM). In all cases. the patients physicians had requested a bone marrow examination because of the possibility of MM. In all 75 cases. 3H-thymidine labeling indices were performed. The plasma cell l...

We present a method of determining the likely triggering mechanisms for luminous, nearby starbursts based on their optical asymmetry and (B-V) color – what we term as indices of 'physical morphology.' By comparing the starbursts' locations in a color-asymmetry diagram to an independent, nearby galaxy sample, we identify which starbursts are likely triggered by an interaction/merger. We confirm ...

During the past few years we have been studying the mechanism of the maturation of erythroblasts by observing the survival in vitro of bone marrow cells. By this means the maturation of erythroblasts of adults and children, both normal and pathological, has been followed in physiological and various experimentally modified conditions. We believe that this method furnishes more accurate informat...

A case report (two patients) of accidental intoxication occurred in Northern Italy. Conium maculatum L. (poison hemlock) leaves were confused with and collected as Foeniculum vulgare Mill. (sweet fennel). C. maculatum contains piperidine alkaloids: coniine, N-methylconiine, conhydrine, pseudoconhydrine and -coniceine, toxic to human beings. Identification and microscopic examination of the cons...