In 2006, deans of the sixty-four U.S. and Canadian dental schools were surveyed to gain their perspectives on their institutions' organizational culture for faculty, family-friendly policies, processes used by deans to develop faculty leadership, and the impact of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. The deans reported (52 percent response rate) an improved cl...

Two types of beta-1,3-glucanases, AkLam36 and AkLam33 with the molecular masses of 36kDa and 33kDa, respectively, were isolated from the digestive fluid of the common sea hare Aplysia kurodai. AkLam36 was regarded as an endolytic enzyme (EC 3.2.1.6) degrading laminarin and laminarioligosaccharides to laminaritriose, laminaribiose, and glucose, while AkLam33 was regarded as an exolytic enzyme (E...

Immunohistological staining of skin from normal donors and bone marrow transplant recipients was undertaken using antibodies to two vessel associated adhesion molecules, endothelial leucocyte adhesion molecule-1 (ELAM-1). In normal skin ELAM-1 staining was restricted to a variable but generally small number of endothelial cells which were significantly increased in graft-versus-host disease (Gv...

Endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecule-1 (ELAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) are cytokine-regulated cell-surface leukocyte adhesion molecules. We have investigated the in vivo kinetics and pattern of expression of these adhesion molecules in relation to tissue accumulation of leukocytes in the photodermatosis, polymorphic light e...

In congestive heart failure (CHF), muscle sympathetic activity (MSNA) is greatly elevated, but our laboratory has shown that single muscle vasoconstrictor neurons primarily fire only once per cardiac interval, as in normal subjects (Elam M and Macefield VG. J Appl Physiol 91: 717-724, 2001; Macefield VG, Rundqvist B, Sverrisdottir YB, Wallin BG, and Elam M. Circulation 100: 1708-1713, 1999). In...

Many ligands of adhesion molecules mediate costimulation of T cell activation. The generality of this emerging concept is best determined by using model systems which exploit physiologically relevant ligands. We developed such an "antigen-specific" model system for stimulation of resting CD4+ human T cells using the following purified ligands: (a) major histocompatibility complex class II plus ...

We often think of intonational phonology in terms of discrete entities: accents which fall into just a few categories (Gussenhoven 1999; Ladd 1996; Beckman and Ayers Elam 1997). In this view, accents in intonation correspond to phonemes in segmental phonology (except that they cover a larger interval). They have a rough correspondence to the acoustic properties of the relevant region and they a...

for atomic-layer-deposited Pt on SrTiO3(001) Zhenxing Feng, Steven T. Christensen, Jeffrey W. Elam, Byeongdu Lee, Mark C. Hersam, and Michael J. Bedzyk Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argon...