PURPOSE Despite excellent radionuclide characteristics, no (18)F-labeled peptides are available for quantitative peptide receptor mapping using positron emission tomography (PET) so far, mainly due to time-consuming multistep radiosyntheses with limited overall yields. A newly developed two-step chemoselective conjugation method allows rapid and high-yield [(18)F]fluorination of peptides via ox...

BACKGROUND There is a growing need to improve heart preservation benefit the performance of cardiac operations, decrease morbidity, and more important, increase the donor pool. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the cardioprotective effects of Krebs-Henseleit buffer (KHB), Bretschneider-HTK (HTK), St. Thomas No. 1 (STH-1), and Celsior (CEL) solutions infused at 10°C and 20°C...

David Hodgson and John Kuruvilla are co-senior investigators Introduction: The optimal salvage chemotherapy (SC) regimen for relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) prior to autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) remains unclear. Head-to-head comparison of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) therapies second line use in primary DLBCL is lacking. Given these limitation...

AIM To compare the use of commercial monoclonal antibody test systems--the Giardia CEL IF test and the Crypto CEL IF test--for the detection of Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum antigens in faeces with conventional techniques. METHODS Sensitivity and specificity were evaluated using preparations of cysts of G lamblia and purified oocysts of C parvum. Evaluation of 59 random faecal sa...

Out-of-memory problem was frequently encountered when processing thousands of CEL files using Bioconductor. We propose a divide-and-conquer strategy combined with randomised resampling to solve this problem. The CAMDA 2007 META-analysis data set which contains 5896 CEL files was used to test the approach on a typical commodity computer cluster by running established pre-processing algorithms fo...

Motion blur is a well-established technique which prevents strobing by making fast moving objects appear blurred. In cel animation however, different methods are used and this paper presents a new technique to emphasise the motion of cartoon objects through the application of geometry. We term the involved non-photorealistic motion blur as ‘cartoon blur’. In order to express cartoon blur, we ha...

Two experiments evaluated the effects on animal performance of traditional wet distillers grains (T-WDG) compared to cellulosic wet distillers grains (C-WDG) from a new process converting corn kernel fiber into cellulosic ethanol. The resulting coproduct has greater CP and decreased starch and ether extract (EE) concentrations (34.0% CP, 1.6% starch, 7.3% EE) compared to T-WDG (32.5% CP, 5.1% s...