We report the results of the presently lowest frequency spectral line survey of the asymptotic giant branch carbon star IRC+10 216. The entire Arecibo C band (4–6 GHz) was observed with a noise level of 0.3 mJy (1 ). We report the detection of HC5N (J 1⁄4 2 1), which is the lowest frequency transition of the HC5N molecule found in the envelope of IRC +10 216. The HC5N J 1⁄4 2 column density der...

12 CO and 13 CO J = 6-5 observations of IRC +10 216 with the JCMT are presented. A spherically symmetric radia-tive transfer code is used to model these and other CO observations of the carbon star IRC +10 216/CW Leo. Compared to previously published model calculations a much larger set of observational data is used as constraints; on-source 12 CO and 13 CO J = 1-0 up to J = 6-5 and mapping dat...

The local model fitting (LMF) method is a useful single-shot surface profiling algorithm based on spatial carrier frequency fringe patterns. The measurement principle of the LMF method relies on the assumption that the target surface is locally flat. In this paper, we first analyze the measurement error of the LMF method caused by violation of the locally flat assumption. More specifically, we ...

Ex vivo studies demonstrated that a synthetic high-density lipoprotein (HDL) comprised of a complex of recombinant apolipoprotein A-IMilano and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine protects the isolated rabbit heart from reperfusion injury. Therefore, we sought to determine whether a pharmaceutical preparation of this complex, ETC-216, was cardioprotective in an in vivo model of left anteri...

dominik strzelecki1, Olga Kałużyńska2, Jolanta Rabe-Jabłońska1: 1 Department of Affective and Psychotic Disorders, University of Łódź, 8/10 czechosłowacka Str., 92-216 Łódź, Poland. 2 central clinical Hospital, 8/10 czechosłowacka Str., 92-216 Łódź, Poland. correspondence address: Dominik Strzelecki, Department of Affective and Psychotic Disorders, University of Łódź, 8/10 czechosłowacka Str., ...

The aim of this study was to further characterize the expression and function of human CYP2B6 in a recently generated CYP2A13/ 2B6/2F1-transgenic (TG) mouse model, in which CYP2B6 is expressed selectively in the liver. The inducibility of CYP2B6 by phenobarbital (PB) and dexamethasone (DEX), known inducers of CYP2B6 in human liver, was examined in the TG mice, as well as in TG/Cyp2abfgs-null (o...

The human sense of shape and pattern recognition can discern subtle nuances among groups of visual cues that no computer system can reproduce faithfully. Yet when it comes to measuring and evaluating chromatograms, analysts put a great deal of faith into their computerized data-handling systems. During the course of one year, a practising chromatographer might look at 10 000 or more peaks. Afte...

Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is an unsupervised clustering technique that is often used for the unsuper-vised segmentation of multivariate images. In traditional FCM the clustering is based on spectral information only and the geometrical relationship between neighbouring pixels is not used in the clustering procedure. In this paper, the spatially guided FCM (SG-FCM) algorithm is presented which segment...