The wireless billboard channels (WBCs) are integral part of the ubiquitous consumer wireless world (UCWW)—a wireless next generation network proposal. The WBCs are used by the service providers to broadcast advertisements of their (wireless) services to the mobile terminals so that the mobile users may discover and associate with the “best” services following the user-driven “always best connec...

The wireless billboard channels (WBCs) are integral part of the ubiquitous consumer wireless world (UCWW) a wireless next generation network proposal. The WBCs are used by the service providers to broadcast advertisements of their (wireless) services to the mobile terminals so that the mobile users may discover and associate with the “best” services following the user-driven ‘always best connec...

The well-established gold standard for imaging infection is scintigraphy with radiolabeled autologous white blood cells (WBCs). Indeed, 2 years ago, in a metaanalysis of all papers published in the previous 20 years on imaging techniques for the diagnosis of infection (1–4), the importance of WBC scanning in this field clearly emerged, with few exceptions. In particular, for the diagnosis of va...

White blood cell (WBC) count is a valuable metric for assisting with diagnosis or prognosis of various diseases such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, or infection. Counting WBCs can be done either manually or automatically. Automatic methods are capable of counting a large number of cells to give a statistically more accurate reading of the WBC count of a sample, but the specialized ...

A primary objective of the large collaborative project entitled "Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury" was to identify leukocyte genes that are differentially expressed after two different types of injury in mouse models and to test the hypothesis that both forms of injury would induce similar changes in gene expression. We report here the genes that are expressed in white blood cells (...

Significant morbidities are associated with the routine administration of blood products. Although the exact etiology of these complications may be unknown, many are thought to arise from the incidental cotransfusion of "donor" lymphocytes. We have developed an assay to detect small numbers of male white blood cells (WBCs) circulating in female patients who have received multiple blood transfus...

The roles of selectins in the pulmonary margination and emigration of neutrophils were investigated by using mice genetically deficient in both Eand P-selectins (E/P mutants) and/or by intravenous injections of fucoidin (inhibiting both Land P-selectins). E/P mutants were neutrophilic (14.7 + 4.9 • 106 vs. 0.8 + 0.1 • 10 ~' neutrophils/ml). This neutrophilia was associated with increased margma...

From the Department of Medicine (G.A.A., D.J.K., N.A.R.) and Tobacco Research and Treatment Center (N.A.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; and Division of General Internal Medicine (J.T.H.), Division of Biostatistics (P.A.D.), Division of Medical Oncology (G.A.C.), and Nicotine Dependence Center (J.T.H., G.A.C.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of the removal of WBCs from buffy coat-reduced RBC concentrates by filtration is determined by many variables. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the filtration temperature, the wettability of the filter material, and the timing of the filtration after collection. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS The investigation used commercially available filters: 3 d...

Objective: Inflammation involved in the etiology of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) has been shown in majority of studies. However, the role of systemic inflammation in LUTS has not been firmly established. Thus, the current study was to examine the association between peripheral total and differential white blood cells count (WBCs), an important systemic inflammation marker, and LUTS in a ...