Oxidation of dihydrorhodamine 123 (DHR) to rhodamine 123 (RH) by oxoperoxonitrite (ONOO(-)), formed through recombination of NO and O(2)(·-) radicals resulting from thermal decomposition of 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1) in buffered aerated aqueous solution at pH 7.6, represents a kinetic model system of the reactivity of NO and O(2)(·-) in biochemical systems. A magnetic-field effect (MFE) on...

Lymphatics are a unidirectional transport system that carries fluid from the interstitial space and back into the blood stream. Initial lymphatics take up not only fluid but also high-molecular-weight substances, such as plasma proteins and hyaluronan; immune cells, such as lymphocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells; and colloidal particles, such as carbon particles, bacteria, and tattoo dye...

UNLABELLED (123)I-Iomazenil brain SPECT has been used for the detection of epileptogenic foci, especially when surgical intervention is considered. Although epileptogenic foci exhibit a decrease in (123)I-iomazenil accumulation, normal cerebral cortices often exhibit similar findings because of thin cortical ribbons, gray matter atrophy, or pathologic brain structures. In the present study, we ...

85 INTRODUCTION 87 MATERIALS AND METHODS 90 Mosquito Maintenance and Injection Protocol 90 Establishing Brugia Infection 90 Gene Selection & dsRNA Generation 91 Relative Quantitative RT-PCR 93 Quantitative RT-qPCR 95 Phenotype Analysis 98 Statistical Analysis 99 RESULTS 100 Target Genes were Expressed During Mosquito Life Cycle Stages 100 In Squito Suppression of Target Genes was Potent and Spe...

Laboratory and epidemiologic evidence suggests that pathogen-specific factors may affect multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) transmission and pathogenesis. To identify demographic and clinical characteristics of MDR TB case clustering and to estimate the effect of specific isoniazid resistance-conferring mutations and strain lineage on genotypic clustering, we conducted a population-bas...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) MR imaging is a technique for depicting cerebral perfusion without contrast enhancement. Our purpose was to determine whether quantification at FAIR imaging can be used to assess regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in a manner similar to [iodine 123]-iodoamphetamin ((123)I-IMP) single photon emission CT (SPECT). METHO...

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2014 [email protected] References [1] A.K. Jain, P. Flynn, and A.A. Ross, Handbook of Biometrics,Springer, 2008. [2] P. Lovato, A. Perina, N. Sebe, O. Zandonà, A. Montagnini, M. Bicego, M. Cristani: "Tell Me What You Like and I'll Tell You What You Are: Discriminating Visual Preferences on Flickr Data", ACCV 2012, pp. 45-56 [3] Leo ...

In order to enhance the sensitivity of diagnosis, a recombinant clone containing domain I of HCV core (amino acid residues 1 to 123) was subjected to random mutagenesis. Five mutants with higher sensitivity were obtained by colony screening of 616 mutants using reverse ELISA. Sequence analysis of these mutants revealed alterations focusing on W(84), P(95), P(110), or V(129). The inclusion bodie...

Abstract. The present work establishes the mean-field limit of a N -particle system towards a regularized variant of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system, following the work of Braun-Hepp [Comm. in Math. Phys. 56 (1977), 101–113] and Dobrushin [Func. Anal. Appl. 13 (1979), 115–123] for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The main ingredients in the analysis of this system are (a) a kinetic formulation...