Reference ranges for -amylase in serum, spontaneously voided urine, and 24h urine were determined, using 4,6-ethylidene-(G7)-l-4-nitrophenyl-(Gl)-a,£)-malthoheptaoside äs the Substrate (EPS method), at 25, 30, and 37 °C. The measured values were evaluated with and without the use of a factor which converts the results of the -amylase EPS method into values comparable to those obtained with the ...

nowadays, developements in nanotechnology have leeds an increased application of this newborn technology in cancer treatment. in this study, a stabilized micelle was developed to load hpd in order to be used in photodynamic treatment of cancer in an animal model. to construct micelles, pluronic p-105 was used and stabilized to encapsulate hpd . this process includes a 24 h polymerization in whi...

Several new strategies to extract CKM phases, including a determination of γ from Bs(d) → J/ψKS decays and a general approach, which makes use of the angular distributions of certain Bd,s modes, such as Bd → J/ψ ρ 0 and Bs → J/ψ φ, are discussed. Special emphasis is put on a simultaneous determination of β and γ with the help of the decays Bd → π π and Bs → K K, which relies only on the U -spin...

The high-impact precipitation events that regularly affect the western Mediterranean coastal regions are still difficult to predict with the current prediction systems. Bearing this in mind, this paper focuses on the superensemble technique applied to the precipitation field. Encouraged by the skill shown by a previous multiphysics ensemble prediction system applied to western Mediterranean pre...

Side eeects in imperative programming languages are ubiquitous, which makes it dii-cult to reason about programs in other than operational terms. Functional programming languages, on the other hand, claim the advantage that equational logics are suucient for reasoning, but at the that often useful eeects, such as interactive input, exceptions, and explicit updates of state cannot be accommodate...

background: escherichia coli o157:h7 is a gram-negative and facultative anaerobic food-borne bacterial pathogen. the major purpose of this study was to evaluate physicochemical characteristics of nanoliposome garlic essential oil (eo) and its antibacterial effect on e. coli o157:h7. methods: nanoliposome garlic eo was prepared by ethanol injection method and its physicochemical properties were ...

The cell surface hydrophobicity of 14 encapsulated and 21 non-encapsulated coagulasenegative staphylococci (CN staph) as determined with the salt aggregation test (SAT) as well as with the xylene-water method ranged widely. Non-encapsulated strains adhered well onto fluorinated poly(ethylene-propylene) (FEP), irrespective of the hydrophobicity of the cell surface. The ability of the encapsulate...

To investigate the antiangiogenic potential of encapsulated VEGF₁₆₅b producing HEK293 cells, Human Embryonic Kidney 293 (HEK293) cells were stably transfected to produce VEGF₁₆₅b. Then they were encapsulated in alginate-polylysine-alginate (APA) microcapsules. VEGF₁₆₅b productivity and viability of encapsulated cells were analyzed and compared with the non-encapsulated cells. Results showed tha...