Glucagon has been postulated as an important physiological regulator of histidase (Hal) gene expression; however, it has not been demonstrated whether serum glucagon concentration is associated with the type and amount of protein ingested. The purpose of the present work was to study the association between hepatic Hal activity and mRNA concentration in rats fed 18 or 50% casein, isolated soy p...

Patients with hyperleukocytic acute leukemia (HAL) can succumb to leukostasis. In an attempt to reduce its incidence, 45 patients with newly diagnosed HAL and hyperleukocytosis were administered half the conventional dose of etoposide and cytosine arabinoside (EA: 50 mg/m2 daily each) until WBC counts were significantly reduced and standard induction therapy was initiated. We retrospectively re...

Rats were trained on a two-interval (12 and 36 s) temporal production task (the peak procedure). Test sessions were conducted in which either the D(1) antagonist SCH-23390 (SCH; 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 mg/kg) or the D(2) antagonist haloperidol (HAL; 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 mg/kg) were injected prior to testing. Both drugs affected the amount of responding, but only HAL affected timing. Under HAL, both interval...

Previous research has indicated that seasonal-type heat stress (HS) can contribute to the development of pale, soft, exudative (PSE) meat in fast-growing turkeys and that halothane exposure may identify stress-susceptible animals. This study evaluated the ability of halothane screening to identify stress-susceptible birds prone to developing pale, exudative meat when reared to market age. Two l...

In this paper, we compare a well-known semantic space model, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) with another model, Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL) which is widely used in different area, especially in automatic query refinement. We conduct this comparative analysis to prove our hypothesis that with respect to ability of extracting the lexical information from a corpus of text, LSA is quite s...

Compounds with polarizable π systems that are susceptible to attack with nucleophiles at C-Hal (Hal = Cl, Br) bonds react with Pd(PPh3)4 to yield net oxidative addition. X-ray structures show that the resulting Pd(PPh3)2Hal groups greatly reduce intermolecular π-π interactions. The Pd-functionalized dyes generally exhibit solution-like absorption spectra in films, whereas their Hal analogues ex...

OBJECTIVE A new method is described for automatically quantifying repetitive hand activity with the use of digital video processing. BACKGROUND The hand activity level (HAL) is widely used for evaluating repetitive hand work. Conventional methods involving either a trained observer on- or off-site or manual off-site video analysis are often considered inaccurate, cumbersome, or impractical fo...

INTRODUCTION Robot-assisted rehabilitation has been increasingly drawing attention in the field of neurorehabilitation. The hybrid assistive limb (HAL) is an exoskeleton robot developed based on the "interactive biofeedback" theory, and several studies have shown its efficacy for patients with stroke. We aimed to investigate the mechanisms of the facilitative effect of neurorehabilitation using...

Interaction of organyltriphenylphosphonium halides with potassium dihalogenodicyanoaurates in water followed by recrystallization reaction products from acetonitrile or DMSO has been used to synthesize gold(III) ionic complexes [Ph3PMe][Au(CN)2Cl2] (1), [Ph3PCH2Ph][Au(CN)2Cl2] (2), [Ph3PC6H11-cyclo][Au(CN)2Br2] (3), and [Ph4P][Au(CN)2I2] (4), which have structurally characterized the X-ray anal...