A fit 18 year old rugby player presented with a four month history of progressive exertional breathlessness, preceded by an unremarkable flu-like illness. There was no response to inhaled â2-agonist, oral theophylline, or inhaled corticosteroids. At assessment, he was breathless on minimal exertion with wheeze. He had never smoked cigarettes. There was no family history of chest disease. He had...

A method is developed for determing actual values of circuit elements in a damped sine wave (Lown waveform) defibrillator solely from measurements of the output, using two or more power resistors and a storage oscilloscope. If a defibrillator containing capacitance C, inductance L, and internal resistance RI, is discharged into increasing 5- to 100-ohm resistive loads R, it is shown for underda...

(166)Ho-EDTMP is a major therapeutic agent which is widely used in bone palliation therapy. In this study, a (166)Ho-EDTMP complex was prepared successfully using an in-house synthesized EDTMP ligand and (166)HoCl(3). Ho-166 chloride was obtained by thermal neutron irradiation (1 Ã 10(13) ncm(â2)s(â1)) of natural Ho(NO(3))(3) samples (specific activity = 3â5 GBq/mg), dissolved in acidic media. ...

Bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (BLAD) is a genetically transmitted disease and inherited as an autosomal recessive defect. Keeping this in view the present study was conducted to estimate incidence of carrier animals in a herd of breeding bulls for mutation in Integrin â2 gene, reared at Frozen Semen Bull Station (FSBS), Haringhata, Nadia, West Bengal, India. A total of 80 bulls of differ...

A fit 18 year old rugby player presented with a four month history of progressive exertional breathlessness, preceded by an unremarkable flu-like illness. There was no response to inhaled â2-agonist, oral theophylline, or inhaled corticosteroids. At assessment, he was breathless on minimal exertion with wheeze. He had never smoked cigarettes. There was no family history of chest disease. He had...