The interference of antibodies to factor VIII coagulant protein (Vlll:C) of 9 nonhemophilic patients with the binding to factor VIII coagulant antigen (VIII:CAg) of a reference hemophilic ‘251-Fab’ reagent, used in a liquid phase Vlll:CAg assay, was studied. The binding competition was estimated from immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) doseresponse slope of Vlll:CAg present in patient plasma. interf...

introduction:  il-8 is one of the pro-inflammatory cytokines which can play an essential role in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis (crs) as well as nasal polyposis (np). the ability of individuals in producing il-8 is partially determined by il-8-251 a/t polymorphism. hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate the association between il-8-251 a/t and cxcr2 +1208 c/t genes p...

Recently, we initiated in [Systems Control Lett., 26 (1995), pp. 245–251] the study of exponential stability of neutral stochastic functional differential equations, and in this paper, we shall further our study in this area. We should emphasize that the main technique employed in this paper is the well-known Razumikhin argument and is completely different from those used in our previous paper ...

We transfer an optical frequency over 251 km of optical fiber with a residual instability of 6x10(-19) at 100 s. This instability and the associated timing jitter are limited fundamentally by the noise on the optical fiber and the link length. We give a simple expression for calculating the achievable instability and jitter over a fiber link. Transfer of optical stability over this long distanc...

This course prepares students to apply computational approaches to data analysis and visualization to real information from a variety of disciplines and applications. Data visualization is the interactive visual exploration of information using 2-D and 3-D graphics using techniques that highlight patterns and relationships. Data analysis incorporates data management, data transformations, stati...

An accumulation of knowledge with respect to biodiversity on the earth has continued for many years because of its great importance and the interest in investigating it. But further studies are necessary for bacterial biodiversity to reach the stage of complete elucidation. Moreover there is a trial calculation that only 1% of bacteria that actually exist on earth have been isolated (Rondon et ...

BACKGROUND Interleukin (IL)-8 plays important roles in the recruitment and activation of immune cells during visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Genetic variations in IL-8 modulate the expression of IL-8 protein and may be associated with VL. This study aimed to evaluate polymorphisms at the IL-8 -251 position in VL patients. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on three groups: Leishman...