Stem cell factor (SCF) is expressed as an integral membrane growth factor that may be differentially processed to produce predominantly soluble (S) (SCF(248)) or membrane-associated (MA) (SCF(220)) protein. A critical role for membrane presentation of SCF in the hematopoietic microenvironment (HM) has been suggested from the phenotype of the Steel-dickie (Sl(d)) mice, which lack MA SCF, and by ...

The accumulation of phosphorus (P) and metals is a serious concern with the continuous application of manure to agricultural soils. Solid-liquid separation of swine slurry is a promising approach to reduce P and metal loadings through application of separated liquid (SL) as a nutrient source. However, little information is available on nutrient and metal loadings with the application of SL comp...

L-selectin expressed by granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes is responsible for initial leukocyte attachment to inflamed endothelium and high endothelial venules of peripheral lymph nodes. After leukocyte activation in vitro, L-selectin is rapidly shed from the cell surface. In this study, shed L-selectin (sL-selectin) from both lymphocytes and neutrophils was demonstrated to be present in ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relevance of serum topiramate (TPM) levels (SL) monitoring in the clinical management of epileptic patients. METHODS Twenty-seven patients with different epileptic syndromes on TPM therapy were studied. TPM was used as add-on in 26 patients, only in one as monotherapy de novo; one case changed from TPM as add-on to TPM monotherapy. The mean follow-up time was 11 m...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the torque expression of self ligating (SL) orthodontic brackets and conventionally ligated brackets and the torque expression in active and passive SL brackets. MATERIAL AND METHODS Our systematic search included MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Scopus, and key journals and review articles; the date of the last search was April 4th 2016. We graded the methodological...

Midwave infrared (MWIR) InAs/GaSb superlattice (SL) photodiode with a dopant-free p-n junction was fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy on GaSb substrate. Depending on the thickness ratio between InAs and GaSb layers in the SL period, the residual background carriers of this adjustable material can be either n-type or p-type. Using this flexibility in residual doping of the SL material, the p-n...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine if soluble leukocyte selectin (sL-selectin) levels in serum and pleural fluid (PF) are an inflammatory marker that differentiates pleural effusion transudates from exudates. DESIGN sL-selectin PF and serum levels were measured in consecutive patients and compared to established criteria. SETTING A tertiary-care military medical center. PATIENTS One hundred tw...

This study aimed at evaluating the ability of SL-44 to control Rhizoctonia solani and promote pepper (Capsicum annuum) growth. Strain SL-44 was isolated from plant rhizosphere and the pot experiment results indicated that the dry and fresh weights of pepper in SL-44 and Rhizoctonia solani (S-R) treatment were 45.5% and 54.2% higher than those in Rhizoctonia solani (R) treatment and 18.2% and 31...

High-altitude (HA) natives have blunted ventilatory sensitivities to hypoxia, and it is uncertain whether this blunting is reversible on migration to sea level (SL). To study this, the ventilatory sensitivities to hypoxia of HA natives residing near SL were compared with those of SL natives. Two studies were performed. In study A, 24 HA subjects who had lived above 3,000 m for an average of 14 ...

Polynomials of boson creation and annihilation operators which form irreducible tensor operators for Jordanian quantum algebra U h (sl(2)), called h-symplecton, are introduced and their properties are investigated. It is shown that many properties of symplecton for Lie algebra sl(2) are extended to h-symplecton. The h-symplecton is also a basis of irreducible representation of SL h (2) dual to ...