There has been an epidemic of inflammatory diseases that has paralleled the epidemic on iatrogenic immune stimulation with vaccines. Extensive evidence links vaccine induced immune over load with the epidemic of type 1 diabetes. More recent data indicates that obesity, type 2 diabetes and other components of metabolic syndrome are highly associated with immunization and may be manifestations of...

This thesis is concerned with the computation of buffer capacities that guarantee satisfaction of timing and resource constraints for task graphs with aperiodic task execution rates that are executed on run-time scheduled resources. Stream processing applications such as digital radio baseband processing and audio or video decoders are often firm real-time embedded systems. For a real-time embe...

objective(s): intracerebroventricular injection of orexin-a (hypocretin-1) antagonist has been shown to inhibit stress-induced analgesia. however the locations of central sites that may mediate these effects have not been totally demonstrated. this study was performed to investigate the role of rostral ventromedial medulla (rvm) orexin receptor 1 in stress-induced analgesia (sia). materials and...

The aim of the present study was to investigate a nitric oxide (NO) involvement in the mediation of a 5-HT-induced vasoconstriction response in the rat portal vein in vitro. Isolated rat portal vein segments were placed in organ baths for isometric force measurement. 5-HT (3 x 10(-8) M-3 x 10(-4) contracted portal vein preparations (EC50 = 7 x 10(-7) M) in a concentration-dependent manner. The ...