Background: The adjuvanticity potential of Lactobacillus casei was first suggested in an old survey. The present study was designed to investigate the efficacy of a new immunotherapy against breast cancer made by mixing an extract of heated 4T1 mammary carcinoma cell line and a heat-killed preparation of Lactobacillus casei.Methods: Female BALB/c mice (6–8 weeks old, n=40) were challenged subcu...

OBJECTIVE To observe the effects of consuming repeatedly heated soy oil on the aortic tissues of estrogen-deficient rats. METHODS Thirty female Sprague Dawley rats (200-250 g) were divided equally into five groups. One group served as the normal control (NC) group. The four treated groups were ovariectomized and were fed as follows: 2% cholesterol diet (OVXC); 2% cholesterol diet + fresh soy ...

Young rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were immunized with killed Aeromonas salmonicida, bled 5 wk later, and tested for the presence of serum agglutinins. The positive antisera were pooled and fractionated in a Ultrogel AcA 34 column. Seven fractions were collected and concentrated. The higher agglutinin titres were found in the 2nd fraction, which also contained IgM revealed by immunoelect...

In this study, BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was synthesized through the solid-state reaction method with two different heating processes. For the one-step process, the BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was heated to 1000 ̋C–1400 ̋C for 2 h. For the two-step heating process, the BaZrO3:Eu0.025 powder was pre-heated at 800 ̋C for 2 h, after being cooled to room temperature and ground, then the powder was heated to ...

In this work, we have studied the influence of dc joule-heating thermal processing on the structure, magnetoimpedance (MI) and thermal properties of Co64Fe4Ni2B19-xSi8Cr3Alx (x = 0, 1, and 2) rapidly solidified melt-spun ribbons. The nanocrystallization process was carried out by the current annealing of as-spun samples at various current densities. As-spun and joule-heated samples were studied...

Storage of 42° Brix Pineapple and Valencia orange concentrates at 40° F. resulted in in creased gelation, clarification, and apparent pulp content, whereas pectin decreased. Total glycosides, as hesperidin, remained constant in these products during storage. The experi mental packs heated at 1and 2-fold were more stable than those heated at 3and 4fold; also all of the Valencia concentrates, con...

High-titer suspensions of poliovirus 1 and coxsackievirus B-2 were shown to contain a heat-resistant fraction when heated for 65 min at temperature ranging from 56 to 70 degrees C. The addition of ribonuclease to the heated suspensions eliminated plaque production in the cell cultures, indicating that the resistant fraction was infectious ribonucleic acid that had been liberated from ruptured v...

The Navier-Stokes transport coefficients of a granular gas are obtained from the Chapman-Enskog solution to the Boltzmann equation. The granular gas is heated by the action of an external driving force (thermostat) which does work to compensate for the collisional loss of energy. Two types of thermostats are considered: (a) a deterministic force proportional to the particle velocity (Gaussian t...

BACKGROUND Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) has different biophysical properties under different thermal conditions, which may affect its rate of absorption in the blood and the related adverse events. The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of heating of CO(2) on acid-base balance using Stewart's physiochemical approach, and body temperature during laparoscopy. METHODS Thirty adult pati...