examination of all patients, has been outstanding in the minds of cancer specialists and public health authorities for years . Bolen' has advocated the gross and microscopic (low power) morphology of' dried drops of blood as sufficiently diagnostic to fill this need in many instances. Bolen employs the technic of Goldbergera as a rapid bedside test for measuring the blood sedimentation rate . G...

During a study of the behavior of sera derived from patients with carcinoma it became obvious that with the so-called "carcinolytic reaction" consistent results were not to be obtained, although accumulating data but added to the conviction that such sera possess properties which, in their action on cancer cells, distinguish them from normal sera. Inability so to adjust a carcinoma cell-serumco...

In 1957, Meselson, Stahl, and Vinograd 1 introduced the remarkable technique of sedimentation equilibriuln in a density gradient for the study of the properties of high molecular weight DNA in solution. Because of the very high molecular weights of DNA, conventional sedimentation equilibrium cannot be used; for even at the lowest centrifugal fields which are practical, the force on these molecu...

We investigated the batch settling behavior of the kaolin slurry and the UK ball clay slurry at various initial solids fractions (phi(0)s) using a computerized axial tomography scanner (CATSCAN). The spatio-temporal evolutions of solids fractions in the consolidating sediments were continuously monitored. Since the interface between the sediment and the supernatant of the investigated slurries ...

BACKGROUND Patients with angina pectoris or myocardial infarction frequently present without evidence of cardiac-specific heart enzymes by laboratory analysis or specific pathologic electro-cardiogram findings. The current study analyzed the efficacy of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate as an additional potential indicator for coronary heart disease, the aim being to enable quicker identificat...

with their results of total amount of Cs-137 in sediment which is 10 times larger than previous estimated value based on observation. Main problem is that they only considered sedimentation and resuspension process in a similar manner to Europe. In Fukushima case, very high concentration of Cs-137 passed through on the sediment in the earlier period. Therefore, absorption and desorption process...

Single-stranded and methylmercurated T7 DNA is composed of two species as evidenced from the sedimentation pattern displayed during band-sedimentation in self-generating density gradients as well as during equilibrium-sedimentation in CS2SO4 density gradients. Under the given experimental conditions, viz., at pH 9.18 and in presence of 0.1 mM CH3HgOH, the two species band in CS2SO4 with a densi...

Little information on the evaluation of airborne particulate matter (APM) and sedimentation particles from subway stations is available. The thermal metamorphism of train wheels generating toxic particles in subway stations is a possibility. In this study, the toxicity and physiological effects of particles from subway stations were evaluated using a yeast bioassay system. Estrogenic and anties...