Hybridoma-secreting monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) were produced by the fusion of spleen cells from immunized BALB/c mice with F/O myeloma cells. The 25 MAbs with the highest antibody titer against CFA/I, as determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, were studied for specificity and the capacity to agglutinate CFA/I-carrying bacteria. Most of...

BACKGROUND Registered mortality from cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) in England and Wales has increased substantially since the specific International Classification of Diseases code for CFA was introduced in 1979. However, since a significant proportion of deaths from CFA are misclassified as post inflammatory fibrosis (PIF), it is possible that the observed rise in CFA mortality is due...

In this paper, utilization of clustering algorithms for data fusion in decision level is proposed. The results of automatic isolated word recognition, which are derived from speech spectrograph and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis, are combined with each other by using fuzzy clustering algorithms, especially fuzzy k-means and fuzzy vector quantization. Experimental results show that the ...

Coal fly ash (CFA), a by-product of coal combustion has been regarded as a problematic solid waste, mainly due to its potentially toxic trace elements, PTEs (e.g. Cd, Cr, Ni, Pb) and organic compounds (e.g. PCBs, PAHs) content. However, CFA is a useful source of essential plant nutrients (e.g. Ca, Mg, K, P, S, B, Fe, Cu and Zn). Uncontrolled land disposal of CFA is likely to cause undesirable c...

We present an experimental evaluation of Heintze and McAllester's linear-time subtransitive CFA algorithm , in the context of SML/NJ v110.7. As described in 9], linear-time termination of the algorithm depends on the existence of a simple typing of the program such that the type tree at each node has a bounded size. We show that this condition is violated by many programs, especially heavily fu...

We have identified a receptor for colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) pili in human erythrocyte membranes. Erythrocyte binding assays, using whole organisms, suggested that the CFA/I receptor was a glycoprotein containing important sialic acid moieties. Subsequently, human erythrocyte membranes were extracted with lithium diiodosalicylate to obtain a soluble glycoprotein fraction from which t...

زمینه و هدف: فعالیت ورزشی مکمل‌یاری ویتامین D نقش مهمی در سلامت قلبی- عروقی دارند. با این حال، آثار ترکیب دو راهبرد مولکولی آن‌ها سازگاری‌های قلبی کمتر شناخته شده است. ازاین‌رو تحقیق حاضر هدف تعیین تأثیر تمرین هوازی بر نشانگرهای فشار اکسایشی پروتئین سیرتوئین 1 (SIRT-1) بافت میوکارد موش‌های صحرایی نر میانسال انجام گرفت.مواد روش‌ها: 32 سر موش دامنة سنی 12–14 ماه وزنی 350–400 گرم پس از طی هفته آشن...

Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...