Cluster-field segregation and determination of physical parameters of the open clusters NGC 1750 and NGC 1758 were performed from CCD and photographic photometric and astrometric surveys previously published by the authors. Membership probabilities were computed to a brightness limit of R = 15 mag through a non-standard method in a fully nonparametric approach, using proper motions, positions a...

Archived PSPC observations of 26 Seyfert galaxies have been analyzed for brightX-ray sources out to the full extent of the field (< about 50′). Of all Seyferts known this represents a sample 88% complete to BT = 10 mag, 74% complete to 11 mag and 50% complete to 12 mag. Using the same reduction algorithm, 14 fields centered on stars at high galactic latitudes have been used as control fields. E...

A monoclonal antibody recognizing a novel murine macrophage glycoprotein antigen (MAG) was prepared by the hybridoma technique. Using live and permeabilized macrophages to estimate surface and total MAG, respectively, it was found that at least 50% of the total antigen was intracellular. In contrast, another macrophage surface glycoprotein antigen, Mac-1, was undetectable in the intracellular p...

BACKGROUND Scintigraphic image analysis of 99mTc-mertiatide (Mag-3, mercaptoacetyltriglycine) clearance provides the determination of the blood flow, the tubular transit time and the excretion as well from both kidneys. Radiopharmaceutical routine recommends a radiochemical purity control before administration of the product to a patient. The main objective of this study is to develop a Mag-3 l...

BACKGROUND Monoacylglycerol acyltransferases (MGATs) are predominantly associated with lipid absorption and resynthesis in the animal intestine where they catalyse the first step in the monoacylglycerol (MAG) pathway by acylating MAG to form diacylglycerol (DAG). Typical plant triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis routes such as the Kennedy pathway do not include an MGAT step. Rather, DAG and TAG ...

The good match of the type Ia supernova (SNIa) Hubble Diagram to the prediction of a not-unreasonable cosmological world model shows that measurements of standard stars and their comparison with point sources down to m = 25 mag is good to better than ±0.5 mag over an 11 mag range. It also shows that the true spectral energy distribution (SED) shapes of standard stars are known to better than ±0...

By the use of a rat IgG monoclonal antibody (mab), a mouse mab and human serum containing an IgM mab, all of which react with isolated human myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) on immunoblots and bind only to proteins with relative mobilities identical to MAG and dMAG on immunoblots of homogenates of adult human spinal cord, we demonstrated the following: in homogenates of central nervous syst...