The responses to changes in renal perfusion pressure (RPP) were compared in 12-wk-old fawn-hooded hypertensive (FHH), fawn-hooded low blood pressure (FHL), and August Copenhagen Irish (ACI) rats to determine whether autoregulation of renal blood flow (RBF) is altered in the FHH rat. Mean arterial pressure was significantly higher in conscious, chronically instrumented FHH rats than in FHL rats ...

As one non-specific acute reactive factor, C reactive protein (CRP) is closely related with the occurrence of cerebral infarction and can work as one evaluating index reflecting nervous system injury. This study recruited acute cerebral infarction (ACI) patients, whose neurological functions and CRP levels in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were tested to analyze its correlation with functi...

Using genetically homogeneous inbred ACI and Fischer rats, the author has conducted active immunization with the skin and lymphoid cells from ACI rat to Fischer rat and succeeded in making an experimental model that unfailingly causes hyperacute rejection, which has heretofore been considered to be extremely difficult. Semipermanent survival was gained with syngenetic graft. With allograft, acu...

Hormonal, genetic, and environmental factors play major roles in the complex etiology of breast cancer. When treated continuously with 17beta-estradiol (E2), the ACI rat exhibits a genetically conferred propensity to develop mammary cancer. The susceptibility of the ACI rat to E2-induced mammary cancer appears to segregate as an incompletely dominant trait in crosses to the resistant Copenhagen...

This paper reports on the key features of the “Guide for the Design and Construction of Concrete Reinforced with FRP Bars” issued by the American Concrete Institute (ACI). For new construction, FRP bars have been used as the internal reinforcement in concrete members to replace conventional steel rebars for a host of reasons. The principles for design and construction were first established and...

August-Copenhagen-Irish (ACI) rats are unique in that the ovary-intact females develop high incidence of mammary cancers induced solely by hormones upon prolonged exposure to high levels of estrogen alone. Studies have also shown that such prolonged exposure to high-dose estrogen results in human-like aneuploid mammary cancers in ovary-intact ACI rats. To determine the role of progesterone in m...

ACI/Seg (ACI) rats develop prostate cancers spontaneously with aging, similar to humans. Here, to identify genes involved in prostate cancer susceptibility, we did linkage analysis and oligonucleotide microarray analysis. Linkage analysis was done using 118 effective rats, and prostate cancer susceptibility 1 (Pcs1), whose ACI allele dominantly induced prostate cancers, was mapped on chromosome...

Lewis recipients of orthotopic ACI livers had permanent graft acceptance induced with 3 doses of i.m. FK506 in the early postoperative period. They were studied 100 and 300 days posttransplantation. The recipients rejected ACI as well as Brown Norway (BN) (third-party) skin grafts, and had lymphocytes with substantial reactivity by mixed lymphocyte culture testing against ACI and third-party (B...

OBJECTIVE Although autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has become an established surgical treatment for cartilage defects of the knee, little is known about what patients expect about this surgery. DESIGN A total of 150 patients who underwent ACI for cartilage defects at the knee were assigned to the present study and asked about their expectations and estimation concerning the ACI proc...

Adjacent channel interference (ACI) can result in a reduced network capacity in a multioperator WCDMA/FDD environment. This paper is devoted to the study of the ACI by using a static simulator. Simulations were performed in order to identify particular scenarios and network compositions where ACI plays a major role in the system capacity. On the basis of the results, the authors identify the be...