The modification of the chemistry of asbestos chrysotile fibres (Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4) after their ingestion by cultured cells has been studied. Two types of cells involved in asbestos related pulmonary disease were used, rabbit alveolar macrophages (AM), recovered by bronchoalveolar lavage, and pleural mesothelial cells (PMC) obtained from the rat parietal pleura. Chemical characterisation of intra...

We present new observations of polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) from the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb (LP) instrument. The OMPS LP limb scattering measurements provide altitude-resolved PMC with full global coverage 2012 to present. Relative brightness observed by varies between hemispheres due changes in viewing geometry, consistent other measurements. season start dates for det...

Polyandrous mating is common, but the benefits for females of polyandry remain controversial. To test whether mating with multiple males affects female fitness, we compared lifetime components of fitness of three experimental sets of Drosophila pseudoobscura females: monogamous females allowed to copulate one time (MOC); monogamous females held with a male over her entire life and experiencing ...

Previous studies have provided evidence that the lateral premotor cortex (PMC) is involved in representations triggered by attended sensory events. However, while the functional specificity of subregions of this large cortical structure has been intensively investigated in the monkey, little is known about functional differences within human lateral premotor areas. In the present study, functio...

Using rare intracranial recordings from the posterior interhemispheric region of the human brain, we explored the oscillatory properties of the posteromedial cortex (PMC) during rest. The PMC is a core structure of the default mode network, which is known for its higher activity during the resting state. We found that resting PMC spectral power peaked in the theta band range (4-7 Hz) and was cl...

This study investigates GABAB protein expression and mRNA levels in three types of specimens. Two types of specimens from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), secondary to hippocampal sclerosis, sclerotic hippocampal samples (TLE-HS), and tissue from the structurally preserved non-spiking ipsilateral superior temporal gyrus (TLE-STG) removed from the same patient during epilepsy surgery;...

Excellent news arrived on May 12, 2017 at the Elsevier office in Amsterdam: the flagship journal of the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS), the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology (IJWD), had just been accepted on PubMed Central (PMC). That very day, all authors who had published papers in its 10 quarterly issues since early 2015 received individual emails from PubMed Central informing...

In this paper, we propose a specific structure in the star graph for local diagnosis under the PMC model. We design an adaptive local diagnosis algorithm for a star graph Sn. We prove that Sn is (n − 1)-diagnosable with our proposed algorithm under the PMC model. Moreover, with our algorithm, a diagnosis is completed in three test rounds.