1Member of JSCE, Associate Professor, Crisis & Security Management Research Center, Kagawa University (2217-20 Hayashi-cyo, Takamatsu, 761-0396, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 2Member of JSCE, Graduate School of Kagawa University (2217-20 Hayashi-cyo, Takamatsu, 761-0396, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 3Member of JSCE, Professor, Crisis & Security Management Researc...

Imaging fibrillar amyloid-b deposition in the human brain in vivo by positron emission tomography has improved our understanding of the time course of amyloid-b pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The most widely used amyloid-b imaging tracer so far is C-Pittsburgh compound B, a thioflavin derivative but other Cand F-labelled amyloid-b tracers have been studied in patients with Alzheimer’s diseas...

The non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor RD4-2217 is a thiadiazole derivative that has proved to be a highly potent and selective inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication in vitro. In this study we examined genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of RD4-2217-resistant mutants that have been obtained by serial passage of HIV-1 in MT-4 cells in the pres...

Estuaries, compared to offshore waters, are often characterized as habitats in which the biomass of aquatic organisms is high but their diversity is low. Standard reference works [e.g. (Kinne, 1971)] and textbooks on estuarine ecology [e.g. (Day et al., 1989)] present inverse relationships between species abundance and salinity, typically for benthic invertebrates. Variability of the environmen...

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PURPOSE To investigate the effect of desiccation on secretion of inflammatory cytokines in corneal epithelial cells and in the rat desiccation model. METHODS A human corneal epithelial cell line (CEPI) was grown in keratinocyte growth medium 2 (KGM2) to approximately 80% confluence. The medium was aspirated and dishes were left for 0 to 30 min with the cover left open to dry the cells (short-...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.01.006 * Tel.: +90 312 29

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.01.051 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 312 29