We have determined whether zein microspheres could act as vaccine adjuvants i.e. increase the immune responses to co-administered immunogens. Ovalbumin (model antigen)-loaded zein microspheres, blank zein microspheres and ovalbumin solution were intramuscularly administered to mice and the sera antibody levels were determined by ELISA. Another group of mice was orally dosed with blank zein micr...

RDF is an emerging knowledge representation formalism proposed by the W3C. A central feature of RDF are blank nodes, which allow to assert the existence of an entity without naming for it. Despite the importance of blank nodes for RDF, many existing RDF query language have only insu cient support for blank nodes. We propose a query language for RDF, called RDFLog, with extensive blank node supp...

BACKGROUND Blank cartridge guns are generally regarded as being harmless and relative safe. However recent published articles demonstrated that the gas pressure from the exploding propellant of blank cartridge is powerful enough to penetrate the thoracic wall, abdominal muscle, small intestine and the skull. And there has been a limited number of case reports of ocular trauma associated with bl...

In the management of paroxysmal, drug-refractory atrial fibrillation, pulmonary vein isolation has become a widely accepted treatment option. Currently, the arrhythmias following any form of myocardial ablation are not considered within a period of three months, known as "the blanking period". Although this period is authority- rather than evidence-based, it has become universally recognized. I...

We investigated the effect of atorvastatin on vascular endothelial growth inhibitor (VEGI) expression in rats with diabetic retinopathy. Wistar rats were divided into a blank group and diabetic model group, which was further randomly divided into treatment and control groups. Rats in the treatment group received 10 mg/kg atorvastatin daily, while rats in the blank and control groups received no...

The antigen (phenotype), gene (allele) and haplotype frequencies of HLA class I were analysed in 4,622 Koreans. With allele frequencies of over 0.05, the most frequent HLA-A,-B and -C antigens were A2, A24, A33, A11, A26, A31; B62, B51, B44, B54, B61, B35, B58, B60; Cw3, Cw1, Cw4, Cw7. Of these A2, A24, Cw1 and Cw3 were present in very high frequencies, respectively (0.3211, 0.2200, 0.2204, and...