PURPOSE To determine the location of the CC chemokines macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha, monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, and regulated on activation of normal T-cell-expressed and secreted (RANTES) during disease progression in experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) and their relationship with the presence of the T helper cell (Th)1-type cytokine IFNgamma. METHODS EAU was...

CONTEXT The European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines Group on Muscle-Invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer prepared these guidelines to deliver current evidence-based information on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with primary urethral carcinoma (UC). OBJECTIVE To review the current literature on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with primary UC and assess its level of ...

la mer caspienne est un bassin isole de type lacustre. son regime sale depend de l'influence de l'eau douce et de l'evaporation de la nappe d'eau. la masse principale des sels vient des bassins qui occupaient son auge au pliocene et au pleistocene. cependant, des la fin du pliocene (i'age apcheron), la mer caspienne formait deja un bassin d'eau saumatre. au cours d...

Cet article questionne le rôle de la production des savoirs sur l’état écologique milieux dans gestion et mise en œuvre politiques surveillance protection ressources eau utilisées pour d’eau potable Afrique subsaharienne. Sur base d’une recherche interdisciplinaire réalisée Côte d’Ivoire au Sénégal par une équipe comprenant sociologues écologues, l’article montre comment experts d’évaluation qu...

Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire potential, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, principal components analysis (PCA), and the tasseled cap transformation (TCT), derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection...

Moisture availability is the factor that most commonly influences the discrimination against 13C fixation (∆) by C3 plants. Therefore, by changing the availability of moisture by way of controlling competing vegetation, ∆ in white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings should be affected. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of manual brushing on ∆ in white spruce s...

A model developed to simulate the behavior of oil and gas accidentally released from deep water is presented. This model presents major modifications to a three-dimensional model developed earlier (Yapa and Zheng, 1997) that simulate the behaviour of oil from under water accidents (shallow water). In deepwater, the ultra-high pressure and cold temperature causes phase changes in gases. These co...

PURPOSE To investigate the dynamics of resident and infiltrating immune cells in the choroid and iris during the early and late stages of experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) in Lewis rats. METHODS Uveoretinitis was induced by footpad injection of crude retinal extract and complete Freund's adjuvant with concurrent intraperitoneal injection of Bordetella pertussis. Five experimental (EAU) an...

PURPOSE Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU) can be induced in C57BL/6 mice (I-A(b)) using human retinoid-binding protein-3 (hRBP-3, previously IRBP) residues 1-20. This study of a truncated murine peptide (mRBP-3 1-16) was conducted to determine its pathogenic potential and to characterize partially its interaction with specific T cells. METHODS After immunization with mRBP-3 1-16 or ...

The emissivity of soil surfaces at microwave frequencies depends strongly on the near-surface water content. However this relationship varies between soils. Use is made of a model (MICRO-SWEAT) which couples water, heat and microwave radiation transfers through soils to show that the main cause of soil variation in the relationship between apparent emissivity at 1.4 GHz (eapp) and the average w...