Mortality after intravenous challenge with 10(4) Cryptococcus neoformans demonstrated that doubly immunodeficient beige athymic (bg/bg nu/nu) mice were more susceptible to systemic cryptococcosis than either bg/bg or nu/nu mice. Infected bg/bg nu/nu mice also had a shortened lifespan compared with their bg/bg nu/+ littermates. Beige athymic (bg/bg nu/nu) but not bg/bg nu/+mice developed cryptoc...

Background: Bioactive glass (BG) nanoparticles are amongst the most promising class of biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration because of their distinctive properties of rapid bone bonding, controlled biodegradability and their ability to stimulate new bone growth. Despite the vast interest in BG scaffolds in medical applications, the synthesis of bioactive glass nanoparticles is still facing...

Two commercially available isolates of Lactobacillus acidophilus (NCFM and LA-1) were compared for their capacities to protect immunodeficient bg/bg-nu/un and bg/bg-nu/+ mice from candidiasis. L. acidophilus NCFM prolonged survival of adult and neonatal bg/bg-nu/nu mice, inhibited disseminated candidiasis in both mouse strains, suppressed weight loss associated with Candida albicans infection i...

JACQUES A. DURR,1,2 JOHANNES HENSEN,3 TOBIAS EHNIS,4 AND MARY S. BLANKENSHIP5 (With the Technical Assistance of C. Klein) 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bay Pines 33744; 2Department of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa 33612; 3Klinikum Hannover Nordstadt, Medizinische Klinik, Hannover 30167; 4Department of Medicine IV, Univ...

1 HanseMerkur Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany 2Department of Clinical Oncology, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, StaudingerWeg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany 4Departm...

In this note the notion of interval-valued fuzzy BG-algebras (briefly, i-v fuzzy BG-algebras), the level and strong level BG-subalgebra is introduced. Then we state and prove some theorems which determine the relationship between these notions and BG-subalgebras. The images and inverse images of i-v fuzzy BG-subalgebras are defined, and how the homomorphic images and inverse images of i-v fuzzy...

conclusions increasing the cu nanoparticles in bioactive glass samples leads to the release of cu2+, which has a positive effect on the antibacterial mechanism, as well as decreasing the cultured staphylococcus colonies found on the bioglasses. therefore, it seems that the nanocomposite/bioglass of cuo is a promising option for aerobic bacterial inhibitor systems in common bone implant infectio...

OBJECTIVE To examine predictors of blood glucose (BG) estimation accuracy and errors in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes. METHOD Seventy-eight adolescents (ages 11-19) rated their physical symptoms and estimated their BG prior to conducting daily BG tests. BG estimation data were subject to an error grid analysis. Hierarchical regression was used to identify predictors of BG estimation accura...