Deep Sea Drilling Program (DSDP) Site 548 was cored in 1984 at a water depth of 1256 m on the Goban Spur, offshore southwest Ireland. Coring retrieved ~100‐m‐thick Pleistocene contourite sequence. This study uses planktonic foraminiferal assemblage and benthic oxygen isotope analyses to establish an age model for upper 40 this core. site's multidisciplinary assemblages, lithic grains, facies ca...

A large urban epidemic of dengue fever occurred in Kollam city of Kerala in 2003. During this epidemic, a study was conducted among 250 IgM dengue antibody-confirmed cases admitted to three major hospitals in Kollam city. The presenting symptoms were: fever (96.8%), headache (77.2%), abdominal pain (62.4%), diarrhoea (15.2%), bleeding (15.2%), skin rash (13.2%), pruritus (10.4%), sore throat (5...

Hammer and colleagues report on BKV-specific T-cell responses in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 15 viremic kidney transplant recipients (1). After stimulation with overlapping peptides spanning the viral capsid protein VP1, interferon-c (IFNc )-producing CD4+ T cells were observed in 7 patients (47%), including 2 patients (13%) with a CD8+ T-cell response. All patients with a dete...

Aims and method This study explores the economic cost and carbon footprint associated with current patterns of prescribing long-term flupentixol decanoate long-acting injections. We conducted an analysis of prescription data from a mental health trust followed by economic and carbon cost projections using local and national data. Results A reduction of £300 000 could be achieved across England ...

We have measured the amounts of different molecular forms of y-glutamyltransferase(EC 2.3.2.2), leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2), and alkalinephosphatase(EC 3.1.3.1) in serum of patientswithdifferenttypes of liverdisease.A highmolecular-mass (greater than 1 000 000 Da) form of yglutamyltransferaseand of each of the other enzymes is present in greatest amounts in patients with jaundice from ...

In simultaneous assays of urinary proteins by the Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 (CBB) and the sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) methods, we noticed that about 18% of samples showed about twice higher protein values by the former method than by the latter. Some urinary proteins are soluble in SSA and react with CBB. Examinations with sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that...