BACKGROUND Sodium metabisulphite (MBS) is known to induce bronchoconstriction in asthmatic patients. The effects of MBS on guinea pig airway smooth muscle and on neurally mediated contraction in vitro have been examined. METHODS Tracheal and bronchial airway segments were placed in oxygenated buffer solution and electrical field stimulation was performed in the presence of indomethacin (10(-5...

*MBS item numbers 66608 and 66609. †MBS item numbers 66833, 66834, 66835, 66836 and 66837 for November 2014 to June 2015, and 66608 and 66609 for July 2014 to October 2014, and then drop effectively to zero in the remaining months. u B frequency of vitamin D testing had risen dramatically in Australia between 2000 and 2010. Further, testing did not translate to improved health outcomes. Since t...

Introduction During the last years the simulation of multi body systems (MBS) has become established in the field of sports biomechanics. Different questions have been solved using this method (cp. Glitsch 2001). At the beginning only specialists used this method. But now MBS-software has been highly improved so that even non-specialists are enabled to work. The aim of the paper is to give reco...

Electronic news gathering and live outside broadcasts need a quick and easy method of getting the programme material back to base. The success of mobile telephones has encouraged the telecommunications industry to develop more advanced systems offering higher capacities. Mobile Broadband System (MBS) is a wireless cellular radio network supporting services up to 34 Mbits/s. The network is being...

A microfluidic device based on a pair of slant-finger interdigital transducers (SFITs) is developed to achieve a selective and flexible manipulation of microbubbles (MBs) by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The resonance frequency of SAWs generated by the SFITs depends on the location of its parallel pathway; the particles at different locations of the SAWs' pathway can be controlled selectively ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this feasibility pilot project was to observe Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients' responses to personalized multimedia biographies (MBs). We developed a procedure for using digital video technology to construct DVD-based MBs of persons with AD or MCI, documented their responses to observing their MBs, and evaluated the psychosocial benef...

Medulloblastoma (MB) is one of the most frequent malignant brain tumors in children. The current standard treatment regimen consists of surgical resection, craniospinal irradiation, and adjuvant chemotherapy. Although these treatments have the potential to increase the survival of 70-80% of patients with MB, they are also associated with serious treatment-induced morbidity. The current risk str...

PURPOSE The cornea is an ideal organ for evaluating gene transfer because it can be treated noninvasively and monitored easily. The present study was performed to investigate the practical efficacy and safety of ultrasound (US) plus microbubble (MB)-mediated gene transfer to cornea. METHODS Cultured rabbit corneal epithelial (RC-1) cells were incubated in 24-well dishes with plasmid DNA havin...

A rapid sandwiched immunoassay of microcystin-LR (MC-LR) in water is proposed with flow injection chemiluminescence detection. The magnetic beads (MBs) were first modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI) by acylamide bond between the carboxyl group on the surface of MBs and the primary amine group in PEI, followed by immobilizing of anti-MC-LR (Ab1) onto PEI with glutaraldehyde as linkage. The res...