OBJECTIVES The primary aim of this study was to examine the association between pleural fluid (PF) eosinophilia, and the PF and serum levels of interleukin (IL)-5, eotaxin-2, eotaxin-3, and vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1 in patients with post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) pleural effusions. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING A tertiary teaching hospital. ...

Asymmetric Eigenvalue Problems with Weights for the p-laplacian with Neumann Boundary Conditions M. Cuesta (Calais) (joint work with M. Arias (Granada), J.-P. Gossez (Bruxelles)) The motivation of this work is the study of (1) −∆pu = f(x, u) in Ω, ∂u ∂n = 0 on ∂Ω, where ∆pu := div(|∇u|p−2∇u), 1 < p < ∞, and Ω is a bounded smooth domain of R and |f(x, s)| ≤ a(x)|s|p−1 + b(x) with a, b belonging ...

The quasi-Werner-type copper(II) complex, [Cu(PF(6))(2)(4-mepy)(4)] (1), in which 4-mepy is the 4-methylpyridine ligand, has flexible and polar axial bonds of Cu-PF(6). Flexibility of the Cu-PF(6) bonds induces diverse and unprecedented guest-inclusion structures, such as {[Cu(PF(6))(2)(4-mepy)(4)][Cu(PF(6))(4-mepy)(4)(acetone)]·PF(6)·4acetone} (γ-1⊃2.5acetone), {[Cu(PF(6))(2)(4-mepy)(4)][Cu(PF...

In addition to the previously studied pf-14 and pf-1 loci in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, mutations for another five genes (pf-17, pf-24, pf-25, pf-26, and pf-27) have been identified and characterized as specifically affecting the assembly and function of the flagellar radial spokes. Mutants for each of the newly identified loci show selective alterations for one or more of the 17 polypeptides i...