Culture supernatants of 30 enterotoxin-producing Bacillus cereus isolates produced a characteristic progressive destruction of McCoy cell monolayers. Enterotoxin-negative B. cereus and other group 1 Bacillus spp. caused no monolayer disruption. The McCoy cell tissue culture system appears to provide a rapid screening assay for detection of enterotoxin-producing B. cereus.

Specimens from eye and genital tract were cultured in parallel in irradiated and non-irradiated McCoy cells and the frequency of isolation of chlamydia using these culture methods was compared. There was a significant difference between the frequencies of isolation; irradiated McCoy cells produced a greater number of positive results.

When the fungal metabolite cytochalasin B was added to McCoy cells, multinucleated giant cells developed. Monolayers of these cells proved as efficient as irradiated cells for the growth of three different serotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis and for the primary isolation of chlamydiae from clinical specimens obtained from patients attending a venereal disease clinic. Cytochalasin treatment of Mc...

Amino acid transport into McCoy cells infected with strains representative of the two major biovars of Chlamydia trachomatis has been studied to determine if uptake is increased during infection. Preliminary work suggested that the transport systems L, A/ASC (for neutral amino acid transport), N (for transport of Asn, Gln, and His) and y+ (for cationic amino acids) were present in McCoy cells. ...

This paper presents the opinion of Dr. Craig E. McCoy, DO FACOG FPMRS. Bovie Medical Corporation’s J-Plasma electrosurgical generators and hand pieces are indicated for the delivery of helium gas plasma to cut, coagulate, and ablate soft tissue during open and laparascopic surgical procedures. The safety and effectiveness of J-Plasma for the treatment of endometriosis has not been established. ...

Objective: To compare hemodynamic changes (systolic blood pressure and pulse) after intubation with Macintosh McCoy laryngoscopes.
 Study Design: Randomised control trial (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT05133375)
 Place Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital, Jhelum Pakistan, from Apr to Oct 2021.
 Methodology: A group 272 patients reporting the operation theatre were selected div...

We congratulate the three authors for their thought-provoking and original work. We thank Guy Nason for the invitation to discuss the papers presented in this stimulating session. Lee and McCoy propose new wavelet shrinkage function estimators. We discuss various wavelet shrinkage estimators, including those of Lee and McCoy, in the context of penalty functions. The paper by von Sachs concerns ...