Benedictine prior Father Gregoire Lemercier thought he was going mad. So he called in a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist soon sorted him out. Father Lemercier was most impressed. He considered that the benefits of Freudian analysis should be bestowed upon the other monks. called in a woman psychiatrist, Professor Frida Zmud, to 'confront monks with the problems of sexuality'. *he group therapy se...

The activity of teichomycin A2 was compared with that of vancomycin in vitro against clinical isolates of staphylococci and enterococci. Teichomycin A2 was more active than vancomycin active against all isolates tested. Synergistic studies also demonstrated that teichomycin A2 combined with rifampin is more active than vancomycin combined with rifampin against Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylo...

We prove an identity for Hall–Littlewood symmetric functions labelled by the Lie algebra A2. Through specialization this yields a simple proof of the A2 Rogers–Ramanujan identities of Andrews, Schilling and the author. Nous démontrons une identité pour les functions symétriques de Hall–Littlewood associée à l’algèbre de Lie A2. En spécialisant cette identité, nous obtenons une démonstration sim...

Immunoselection with HLA-A2 or HLA-A1 specific alloantisera has been utilized to isolate spontaneously arising and mutagen-induced variants from the B lymphoblastoid cell line T5-1 (HLA haplotypes DR3, B8, A1 and DR1, B27, Cw1, A2). Such variants are characterized by reduced reactivity with alloantisera of the selecting specificity, but normal reactivity with alloantisera directed to the other ...

Vascular endothelial cell surface expression of annexin A2 and its binding partner p11 is a key element in maintaining fibrinolytic balance on blood vessel surfaces. In the recent decade, investigators have made significant progress toward understanding the mechanisms that regulate heterotetrameric (A2*p11)(2) receptor translocation from the cytoplasm to the outer cell surface. Accumulating evi...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the only infectious disease for which a monoclonal antibody (MAb) is used in humans. Palivizumab (PZ) is a humanized murine MAb to the F protein of RSV. PZ-resistant viruses appear after in vitro and in vivo growth of RSV in the presence of PZ. Fitness for replication could be a determinant of the likelihood of dissemination of resistant viruses. We assessed...

The autofluorescent lipofuscin that accumulates in retinal pigment epithelial cells with age may contribute to an age-related decline in cell function. The major lipofuscin fluorophore, A2E, is a pyridinium bisretinoid. We previously proposed that the biogenesis of A2E involves the following: (i) formation of the Schiff base, N-retinylidene phosphatidylethanolamine from all-trans-retinal and ph...

Light stimulates phospholipase A2 activity in rod outer segments (ROS) of bovine retina as measured by the liberation of arachidonate from phosphatidylcholine, in in vitro assays of dark-adapted ROS. A role for GTP-binding proteins (G or N proteins) in the light activation of phospholipase A2 is suggested by the capacity for guanosine 5'-O-(thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) to activate phospholip...

Annexin A2, a calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding protein, is abundantly expressed in alveolar type II cells where it plays a role in lung surfactant secretion. Nevertheless, little is known about the details of its cellular pathways. To identify annexin A2-regulated or associated proteins, we silenced endogenous annexin A2 expression in rat alveolar type II cells by RNA interference and ass...

Two isoforms of arginase, A1 and A2, were found in rat liver, submaxillary gland and kidney as well as beef kidney. In beef liver, however, A2 was the only detectable form. Two additional forms, A3 and A4, found only in rat kidney were probably artifactitious. A1 and A2 exhibited chromatographic and immunological microheterogeneity. While A1 in rat liver and submaxillary gland was excluded by D...