BACKGROUND In the late 1990s, triple reassortant H3N2 influenza A viruses emerged and spread widely in the US swine population. We have shown previously that an isolate representative of this virus-lineage, A/Swine/Minnesota/593/99 (Sw/MN), exhibits phenotypic differences compared to a wholly human-lineage H3N2 virus isolated during the same time period, A/Swine/Ontario/00130/97 (Sw/ONT). Speci...

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∗Équipe PTIDEJ– GEODES Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal CP 6128 succ. Centre Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada {mohanaou, foutsekh, guehene}@iro.umontreal.ca ∗∗ Équipe Adam – INRIA Futurs Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille – LIFL UMR CNRS 8022 Cité Scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France {Laurence.Duchien, Anne-Fr...

The study was designed to evaluate the effect of 2% seamustard (Undaria pinnatifida) by-product (SW) on growth performance, immunity, carcass characteristics, cholesterol content and fatty acid profile in Hanwoo steers. A total of 20 Hanwoo steers (ave. 22 months old; 619 kg body weight) were randomly assigned to control (basal diet) and 2% SW supplemented diet. Dietary SW supplementation signi...

With the functionality of most embedded systems based on software (SW), interactions amongst SW modules arise, resulting in error propagation across SW them. During SW development, it would be helpful to have a framework that clearly demonstrates the error propagation and containment capabilities of the di erent SW components. In this paper, we assess the impact of inter-modular error propagati...

Extracorporeal shock wave (SW) therapy has been studied in the transfection of naked nucleic acids into various cell lines through the process of sonoporation, a process that affects the permeation of cell membranes, which can be an effect of cavitation. In this study, siRNAs were efficiently transfected into primary cultured cells and mouse tumor tissue via SW treatment. Furthermore SW-induced...

BACKGROUND Methylnaltrexone, a novel peripherally acting opioid receptor antagonist, is used to treat opiate-induced constipation in cancer patients. Its effects on the activities of chemotherapeutic agents, however, have not been evaluated. In this study, the effect of methylnaltrexone on the action of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was tested in three human cancer cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS T...

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