a four year long research programme divided into four phases has been designed for the first time to assess the combined noise-air quality and combined exposure to noise-air pollution at the curbside open-air microenvironment of kolkata city, india. the results and the findings of the different phases of study had already been published. the objective of the review work is to fuse the findings ...

introduction bacillus calmette-guérin (bcg) vaccine, a live attenuated mycobacterium bovis strain, is administrated to all newborn infants in endemic regions according to the current world health organization (who) recommendation. case presentation we report a 10-month-boy who was a known case of severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) admitted with multi-focal fusiform painful swelling in his ...

background: in previous investigations, it has been clarified that electromagnetic fields (elf) can cause some changes in cellular behavior. the aim of this prospective study was to investigate the effect of magnetic field (mf) on human sperm parameters of motility, morphology, and viability. materials and methods: semen samples were collected from 12 fertile men, and were allowed to liquefy fo...

optimal management of low lying locally advanced rectal cancer remains a major challenge. this study was performed to evaluate the impact of preoperative external radiation therapy combined with systemic chemotherapy on sphincter preservation and local control in locally advanced low lying (<5 cm from anal verge) rectal cancer. a total of 25 consecutive patients with biopsy proven locally advan...

Lymphocytes residing in the intestinal epithelium are exclusively T cells and account for one of the largest collection of T cells in the organism. However, their function remains obscure. We and others have shown that the development of intestinal intraepithelial T cells is compromised in mutant mice prone to chronic intestinal inflammation. These results led us to directly assess their role i...

Infection with multiple ganciclovir-resistant human cytomegalovirus mutants, containing different substitutions and deletions in the UL97 gene, was found in a patient with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) within 3 weeks of ganciclovir therapy. A novel 11-codon deletion at positions 590 to 600 was identified. These unique findings may be related to the nature of the immunodeficiency in th...

In this paper, simulation and analysis of thin steel cylindrical shells with elliptical cutouts under oblique loading were studied using finite element method. First, the numerical results were validated by the results of experimental test performed by an INSTRON 8802 servo hydraulic machine. Also, the effect of cutout angle (θ), cutout size, cutout position (L0/L) and cutout aspect ratios (b/a...

1Unité Développement Normal et Pathologique du Système Immunitaire, INSERM U 429 and 2Laboratoire d’Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Necker–Enfants Malades, Paris, France. 3Service de Cytogénétique and 4Laboratoire d’Immunologie et d’Hématologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. 5Unité d’Immunologie et d’Hématologie Pédiatrique and 6Centre d’Étude des Déficits Immunitair...