in chronic myelogenous leukemia (cml), the mature granulocytes originate from a stem cell line harboring an abnormal chromosome, therefore it is possible that metabolic-functional abnormalities occur in the morphologically mature cells. in the present study, the phagocytic activity including intracellular killing, nitro blue tetrazolium (nbt) reduction, and phagocytosis were studied in 37 cml p...

In this work the volume expansion for the binary systems of ethanol and toluene, as industrial organic solvents, in the presence of nearcritical and supercritical carbon <span style="font-size: 10pt; c...

Recently Mora and Chevy [1], in studying the energy of an atomic Fermi gas consisting of a majority species, 1, and a minority species, 2, showed that, due to interatomic interactions, the energy density E of the gas has a contribution of the form E = 12fn 2 2, where ni is the density of species i. They attribute this term to a “modification of the single polaron properties due to Pauli blockin...

Background During human walking the ankle-foot complex executes seemingly contradictory functions: (1) stabilization of the human body at initial contact, (2) shock absorption during early stance [1-3], (3) Storing elastic energy during midstance and (4) providing a strong lever for push of during final stance [1]. This quadrupled function inevitably demands a transfer from a flexible and compl...

The cardiac and respiratory systems can be viewed as two self-sustained oscillators with various interactions between them. In this study, the cardiorespiratory phase synchronization (CRPS) quantified by synchrogram was investigated to explore the phase synchronization between these two systems. The synchrogram scheme was applied to electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration signals. Particular fo...

We study a mesoscopic normal-metal structure with four superconducting contacts, two of which are joined into a loop. The structure undergoes transitions between three (meta)stable states, with different phase configurations triggered by nonequilibrium conditions. These transitions result in spectacular changes in the magnetoresistance. We find a qualitative agreement between the experiments an...

Received 11/8/2000; revised 1/3/2001; accepted 2/1/2001. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shyh-Jen Wang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160, Sec. 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan, R.O.C., Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)423741348, E-mail: [email protected] Background: A sciritigraphic method using gammaemitting radiouclides ...