We have resolved B220+ IgM- B-lineage cells in mouse bone marrow into four fractions based on differential cell surface expression of determinants recognized by S7 (leukosialin, CD43), BP-1, and 30F1 (heat stable antigen). Functional differences among these fractions can be correlated with Ig gene rearrangement status. The largest fraction, lacking S7, consists of pre-B cells whereas the others...

Despite major advances in pediatric cancer research, there has been only modest progress in the survival of children with high risk neuroblastoma (NB) (HRNB). The long term survival rates of HRNB in the United States are still only 30-50%. Due to resistance that often develops during therapy, development of new effective strategies is essential to improve the survival and overcome the tendency ...

BACKGROUND Little has been reported regarding the utility or outcomes of femoral venous vascular closure using arterial suture closure devices. We describe results using a pre-closure approach with a 6 French (Fr) Perclose Closer S device in patients who underwent antegrade aortic valvuloplasty using 14 Fr percutaneous femoral venous access catheters. METHODS Forty-five patients underwent ant...

Two rhesus monkeys were required to emit 1 to 16 responses (FR 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16) per 0.5 ml delivery of either 8% (w/v( ethanol or water. Ethanol had been established as an effective reinforcer via the oral route in an earlier experiment [4]. At FR 16, responding maintained by ethanol clearly exceeded responding maintained by water for both monkeys. The volume of ethanol intake per session re...

Pharmacokinetic properties of WF-3681 and FR-62765 in rats were examined. FR-62765 showed higher peak concentrations in the plasma and higher concentrations in the sciatic nerve than WF-3681 when each compound was administered orally to rats. We therefore evaluated FR-62765 in rats with diabetic neuropathy. As a result, FR-62765 at 32 mg/kg/day administered for 3 weeks to streptozotocin-induced...

In Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs), usually, data is stored using replicated packets on different chunk servers. Recently a new paradigm of Fractional Repetition (FR) codes have been introduced, in which, data is replicated in a smart way on distributed servers using a Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) code. In this work, for a non-uniform FR code, bounds on the FR code rate and DSS code rate...

A new transplantable ovarian tumor model is presented using a novel folate receptor (FR) positive, murine ovarian cancer cell line that emulates the human disease and induces widespread intraperitoneal (i.p.) tumors in immunocompetent mice within 4-8 weeks of implantation. Tumor development was monitored using a new positron emission tomography (PET) FR-targeting reporter with PET/computerized ...

Flow cytometry (FCM) is a fluorescence-based single-cell experimental technology that is routinely applied in biomedical research for identifying cellular biomarkers of normal physiological responses and abnormal disease states. While many computational methods have been developed that focus on identifying cell populations in individual FCM samples, very few have addressed how the identified ce...

Near wakes behind a sphere in both homogeneous and linearly stratified background were studied numerically and experimentally at Reynolds number Re ≤ 1000, Froude number Fr ≥ 0.5. In a homogeneous fluid, the structural transitions with increasing Re are consistent with previous studies. The stratified results from simulations and experiments are in good agreement. Stratified wakes undergo simil...