OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety of the antimicrobial peptide, lactocin 160. METHODS Lactocin 160, a product of vaginal probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus 160 was evaluated for toxicity and irritation. An in vitro human organotypic vaginal-ectocervical tissue model (EpiVaginal) was employed for the safety testing by determining the exposure time to reduce tissue viability to 50% (ET-50). Hemol...

Introduction: 160 Gbit=s optical time domain multiplexing (OTDM) technology is only interesting if full add-drop functionality can be realised on the existing fibre infrastructure [1]. A 160 Gbit=s OTDM add-drop node based on the gain transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (GT-UNI) has been demonstrated under laboratory conditions [2]. In this Letter we present a 160 Gbit=s OTDM network...

Fish sexual development is sensitive to exogenous hormone manipulation, and salmonids have been used extensively as environmental sentinels and models for biomedical research. We simulated maternal transfer of contaminants by microinjecting rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) embryos. Fish were reared for 6 months and sexed, and gonads were removed ...

There has been only one limited report dating from 1941 using dissection which has described the tibiofemoral joint between 120 degrees and 160 degrees of flexion despite the relevance of this arc to total knee replacement. We now provide a full description having examined one living and eight cadaver knees using MRI, dissection and previously published cryosections in one knee. In the range of...

Optimal parameter settings to improve the efficiency of solving harvest scheduling models with adjacency constraints were examined using Ilog’s Cplex R © 11.2 optimizer tuning tool. A total of 160 randomly generated hypothetical forests were created with either 50 or 100 stands and four age-class distributions. Mixed integer programming problems were formulated in Model I form with four differe...

The process for the production of biodegradable plastic material (polyhydroxyalkanoates, PHAs) from microbial cells by mixed-bacterial cultivation using readily available waste (renewable resources) is the main consideration nowadays. These observations have shown impressive results typically under high carbon fraction, COD/N and COD/P (usually described as nutrient-limiting conditions) and war...