One week oral flurazepam (FZP) administration in rats results in anticonvulsant tolerance in vivo, tolerance measured in vitro in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells, and regulation of hippocampal gamma-aminobutyric acid(A)-receptor subunit protein expression. A single injection (4 or 20 mg/kg i.p) of the benzodiazepine antagonist flumazenil (FLM) was given 1 day after FZP treatment, and tolerance ...

BACKGROUND The TDx Fetal Lung Maturity II (FLM II) assay uses amniotic fluid to assess lung maturity of the unborn infant. We investigated common preanalytical factors that influence FLM results, including centrifugation, sample storage, and contamination by whole blood. METHODS We tested 18 specimens after centrifugation and after resuspension by vortex-mixing. We also analyzed 23 specimens ...

Plants enter their reproductive phase when the environmental conditions are favourable for the successful production of progeny. The transition from vegetative to reproductive phase is influenced by several environmental factors including ambient temperature. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) is critical for this pathway; svp mutants cannot modify their flowe...

The lamellar body count (LBC) represents an alternative method to the TDx-FLM II (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL), which is planned to be discontinued, for assessing fetal lung maturity. Our objective was to validate the LBC on 3 hematology analyzers (Coulter LH 750 and Coulter Ac.T diff2, Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA; and Sysmex XE-2100, Sysmex, Mundelein, IL) to serve as a template for oth...

Vertex operator algebras (VOA) were introduced in physics by Belavin, Polyakov and Zamolodchikov [BPZ] and in mathematics by Borcherds [B]. For a detailed exposition of the theory of VOAs see [FLM] and [FHL]. In a remarkable development of the theory, Zhu [Z] constructed an associative algebra A(V ) corresponding to a VOA V and established a 1-1 correspondence between the irreducible representa...

BACKGROUND Gastric parietal cells in a baboon were recently found to be auto-fluorescent. AIM To study gastric sections with a fluorescent microscope in a cohort of baboons. MATERIAL AND METHODS Gastric sections from 38 baboons were stained with hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) and examined in a fluorescence microscope (FLM). The thickness of the parietal cell population was assessed at x 10 magnifi...

Purpose: In the present study the incompatibility of FLM (fluvoxamine) with lactose in solid state mixtures was investigated. The compatibility was evaluated using different physicochemical methods such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Methods: Non-Isothermally stressed physical mixtures were used to calculate the ...

Phosphatidylglycerol is one component of amniotic fluid that is unaffected by several of the reported interferences with conventional thin-layer chromatographic measurement of phospholipid. To compare a rapid immunological agglutination test, "Amniostat-FLM", with two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography, we determined phosphatidylglycerol by both methods in 41 amniotic fluid specimens obtaine...

This paper develops and investigates a new approach for evaluating feature based object hypotheses in a direct way. The idea is to compute a feature likelihood map (FLM), which is a function normalized to the interval [0, 1], and which approximates the likelihood of image features at all points in scale-space. In our case, the FLM is defined from Gaussian derivative operators and in such a way ...