INTRODUCTION Subchondral bone cysts (SBC) have been identified in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) as a cause of greater pain, loss of cartilage and increased chance of joint replacement surgery. Few studies monitor SBC longitudinally, and clinical research using three-dimensional imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is limited to retrospective analyses as SBC are...

Vector Quantization (VQ) and Subband Coding (SBC) are promising candidates for future generations of image coders : VQ is known to outperform scalar quantization (SQ) techniques, SBC overcomes the block structure problem of DCT transform coders and has better energy compaction properties. The paper compares the performances of two SBC-VQ schemes (a QMF-based SBC with trained-codebook VQ and a p...

Effects of sodium bicarbonate (SBC) injection on meat quality and functionality of porcine M. longissimus lumborum were investigated. Fifteen pigs (100±5 kg) were randomly selected at a commercial slaughter plant. After slaughtering the loins were dissected from the carcass before chilling at approximately 30 minutes post mortem. The loins were divided into four cuts for sample treatment, and S...

The single agent of amrubicin is active in untreated small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Cytotoxicity of amrubicinol, the active form of amrubicin, was evaluated in a parent SCLC cell line (SBC-3); an active metabolite of irinotecan, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-camptothecin (SN-38)-resistant subline (SBC-3/SN-38); and cisplatin-resistant subline (SBC-3/CDDP) using AlamarBlue assay. Interaction of the combine...

To investigate the role of the angularis oculi vein (AOV) in selective brain cooling (SBC), we measured brain and carotid blood temperatures in six adult female Dorper sheep. Halfway through the study, a section of the AOV, just caudal to its junction with the dorsal nasal vein, was extirpated on both sides. Before and after AOV surgery, the sheep were housed outdoors at 21-22°C and were expose...

7-ethyl-10-[4-(1-piperidyl)-1-piperidyl] carbonyloxy-camptothecin, a topoisomerase I (topo I) inhibitor, is one of the most active agent against lung cancer, and its radiosensitizing effect has been reported recently. We evaluated a combination in vitro effect of irradiation and 7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-CPT (SN-38), an active metabolite of 7-ethyl-10-[4- (1-piperidyl)-1-piperidyl] carbonyloxy-camptot...

Herein, we report a novel amphiphilic biodegradable and sustainable soybean oil-based copolymer (SBC) prepared by grafting hydrophilic and biocompatible hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) polymeric segments onto the natural hydrophobic soybean oil chains. FTIR, H(1)-NMR, and GPC measurements have been used to investigate the molecular structure of the obtained SBC macromolecules. Self-assembly behavio...

Selective brain cooling (SBC) is defined as a brain temperature cooler than the temperature of arterial blood from the trunk. Surrogate measures of arterial blood temperature have been used in many published studies on SBC. The use of a surrogate for arterial blood temperature has the potential to confound proper identification of SBC. We have measured brain, carotid blood, and rectal temperatu...

The obstacles to the development of therapeutic aptamers for systemic inflammatory diseases, such as nuclease degradation and renal clearance, have not been fully overcome. Here, we report a novel PEGylation method, sbC-PEGylation, which improves the pharmacokinetic properties of RNA aptamers that act against interleukin-17A (IL-17A) in mice and monkeys. sbC-PEGylated aptamers were synthesized ...

Clustering is an important technique in mobile ad hoc networks to provide a framework for management and reduce the overhead of route acquisition. Many clustering techniques had been proposed in the literature, but few of them had considered the status of network from the aspect of stability. In this paper, a stability-based clustering (SBC) technique is proposed. SBC only constructs stable eno...