The growth and growth hormone profiles in four children receiving three different regimens of treatment with human growth hormone (hGH) were compared. There was no significant difference in the rate of growth between the regimens; the rate of growth fell dramatically after treatment. Pulsatile administration of hGH was no better than conventional treatment.

Introduction: In the past decade, multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has become one of the most critical challenges in treating infected patients. The AdeABC efflux pump is the most important among the various resistance mechanisms. This pump can force various antibiotics and ethidium bromide out of the bacterial cell to the surrounding environment. Methods: In this study, nine A. baum...

Human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor has been isolated in 55% yield from human pancreatic juice and in 45% yield from human post mortem pancreata by gel filtration on Sephadex G-75 in the presence of 1OW M diisopropyl phosphofluoridate and by ion exchange chromatography on DEAEcellulose and SP-Sephadex. The polypeptide inhibitor has a molecular weight of 6242 and contains 56 amino acid ...

SOME malignancies of the extremities can be treated by hyperthermic isolated limb chemotherapy. This procedure involves arterial and venous cannulation of the affected limb and isolated perfusion using a bypass pump. When a steady state is reached, the blood is warmed and oxygenated, and a chemotherapeutic agent (e.g., melphalan) is added and circulated in the limb for up to 1 h. Because the li...

A screening aimed at obtaining a cholinesterase inhibitor of microbial origin was carried out using Pseudomonas butyrylcholinesterase. A mycelium-extract of a fungus strain, belonging to the genus Penicillium, was found to produce such an enzyme inhibitor. The inhibitor was purified and crystallized as colorless leaflets. From physical and chemical studies, the inhibitor was identified as being...

Affection, Speed Dating and Heart Breaking* This paper explores the role of unilateral and idiosyncratic affection rents (’love’) from being married with a specific individual in a matching model with individuals with heterogenous matching frequencies. We show that individuals suffer in expectation from being matched with individuals with high matching frequency. High-frequency daters have high...

Many anadromous salmonid stocks in the Pacific Northwest are at their lowest recorded levels, which has raised questions regarding their long-term persistence under current conditions. There are a number of factors, such as freshwater spawning and rearing habitat, that could potentially influence their numbers. Therefore, we used the latest advances in information-theoretic methods in a twostag...

A general method for testing the martingale difference hypothesis is proposed. The new tests are data-driven smooth tests based on the principal components of certain marked empirical processes that are asymptotically distributionfree, with critical values that are already tabulated. The data-driven smooth tests are optimal in a semiparametric sense discussed in the paper, and they are robust t...