As central nervous system residents, mast cells contain many cytokines and are localized primarily near large blood vessels in the diencephalon and within the leptomeninges, making them candidates for immune to neural "cross talk." Using mast cell-deficient Kit(W-sh/W-sh) mice, we assessed the role of these cells in the thermoregulatory component of the immune response to lipopolysaccharide (LP...

Background: Severe hypothermia (SH, 30 C) increases the risk of pacing-induced ventricular fibrillation (PIVF) by enhancing spatially discordant alternans (SDA). Whether moderate hypothermia (MH, 33 C), which is clinically used for therapeutic hypothermia, also facilitates SDA remains unclear. We hypothesized that MH attenuates SDA occurrence compared with that achieved by SH, and decreases the...

Article Type Research Article Authors Fahimi Manzari Sh.1 BSc, Askarramaki Sh.* BSc, Sam Sh.2 PhD, Pourghasem M.3 PhD

BACKGROUND A controversy exists regarding the association between subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) and dyslipidemia. Moreover, studies on lipid ratios and atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) in SH are rare, particularly in the Indian scenario. AIM This study aimed to investigate abnormalities in conventional lipid profile, lipid ratios, and AIP in SH and attempted to correlate thyroid stimulatin...

UNLABELLED Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) encodes three glycoproteins: the glycoprotein, which plays a role in glycosaminoglycan binding, the fusion (F) protein, which is necessary and sufficient for both viral binding to the target cell and fusion between the cellular plasma membrane and the viral membrane, and the small hydrophobic (SH) protein, whose function is unclear. The SH protein of the ...

An area-weighted k-means clustering method based on pattern correlations is proposed and used to explore the relationship between the Siberian High (SH) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) during the winter months (December-January-February) of 1948-2014. Five regimes are identified. Four of these five regimes (comprising 171 of 201 months) show a negative correlation between the SH and AO indices, whi...

—Many U.S. natural resource agencies stock catfi sh (Ictaluridae) into small impoundments to provide recreational fi shing opportunities. However, effective standardized methods for sampling catfi sh in small impoundments have not been developed for wide application, particularly in the southeastern United States. We evaluated the effi ciency of three bait treatments (i.e., soybean cake, sunfl ...

INTRODUCTION. .. ............................................................... 417 Relative frequency of crossing over in males and females. ............................. 418 Previous investigations. ...................................................... 418 Crossing over between B b and Lg I , and between C c and Sh sh in microsporogenesis and megasporogenesis. .................................

The byte block cipher Two sh was proposed as a candidate for the Advanced En cryption Standard AES This paper notes the following two properties of the Two sh key schedule Firstly there is a non uniform distribution of byte whitening subkeys Sec ondly in a reduced xed Feistel round function Two sh with an byte key there is a non uniform distribution of any byte round subkey An example of two di...

Phenanthrene (PHE) is one of the model compounds polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In this study, a natural PHE-degrading microbial consortium, named HJ-SH, with very high degradation efficiency was isolated from soil exposed to long-term PHE contamination. The results GC analysis showed that consortium HJ-SH degraded 98% 100 mg/L in 3 days and 93% 1000 5 days, an higher than any other c...