Four novel Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-carrying T-cell lines, designated SIS, AIK-T8, AIK-T4, and SKN, were established from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of patients with severe chronic active EBV infection, in the presence of interleukin-2 and 4-deoxyphorbol ester. AIK-T8 and -T4 were derived from a single patient. Cell marker and genotype analyses showed that SIS, AIK-T8, and AIK-T4 had ma...

In this paper we prove some inequalities between expressions of the following form: ∑ 1≤i1<···<ik≤n ai1 + · · ·+ aik a1 + · · ·+ an − (ai1 + · · ·+ aik) , where a1, · · · , an are positive numbers and k, n ∈ N, k < n. Using the results in [1] which show that ( n k ) · n−k k give a lower bound for the expressions above, we norm them and obtain the chain A(1), A(2), . . . , A(n− 1), A(n), whose t...

Aggregated states have been alluded to for many DNA minor groove binders but details of the molecule-on-molecule relationship have either been under-reported or ignored. Here we report our findings from ITC and NMR measurements carried out with AIK-18/51, a compound representative of the thiazotropsin class of DNA minor groove binders. The free aqueous form of AIK-18/51 is compared with that fo...

The live measles virus (MV) vaccine strain AIK-C was attenuated from the wild-type strain Edmonston by plaque purification at 33 degrees C. Strain AIK-C grew well at 33 degrees C with a mixture of small-and medium-sized plaques in Vero cells, but did not grow well at 40 degrees C. To investigate fusion inducibility, expression plasmids for the fusion (F) and haemagglutinin (H) protein regions o...

Date: January 19, 2015 Dear Editor We resubmitted the manuscript of our paper “Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among non-pregnant women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: Multilevel logistic regression analysis” (MS: 1785788281151373) to your Journal. According to your recommendation, language and grammar of our manuscript have been checked by a native English speaker. One of our Co...

Five batches of experimental measles vaccines were prepared with Biken-CAM, Schwarz, Sugiyama, Leningrade-16 and AIK-C strains in MRC-5 HDC. The rct 40, T50 or neurovirulence for baby hamsters of these viruses adapted to HOC were not significantly changed but the neurovirulence of the Sugiyama virus for day-old hamsters was increased after passages in HOC. Whith the exception of the AIK-C strai...

This is a special case of a projection onto a linear space (here, we consider only coordinate projection). By repeatedly projecting, we can eliminate any subset of coordinates. We claim that Pk is also a polyhedron and this can be proved by giving an explicit description of Pk in terms of linear inequalities. For this purpose, one uses Fourier-Motzkin elimination. Let P = {x : Ax ≤ b} and let •...

This is a special case of a projection onto a linear space (here, we consider only coordinate projection). By repeatedly projecting, we can eliminate any subset of coordinates. We claim that Pk is also a polyhedron and this can be proved by giving an explicit description of Pk in terms of linear inequalities. For this purpose, one uses Fourier-Motzkin elimination. Let P = {x : Ax ≤ b} and let •...

Let 〈a1, a2, . . . , an〉 be a sequence of comparable elements. In this paper, we study two constrained versions of the longest increasing subsequence (LIS) problem. The first problem is the range-constrained longest increasing subsequence (RLIS) problem. Given 0 < LI ≤ UI < n and 0 ≤ LV ≤ UV , the objective of the RLIS problem is to deliver a maximum-length increasing subsequence 〈ai1 , ai2 , ....

The relationship between membrane potential (Em) and the potassium equilibrium potential (EK) was investigated in hypoxic guinea pig papillary muscle. After more than 8 hours of hypoxia, cells with near normal Em (-86.2 +/- 0.9 mV) and action potentials were observed. However, the intracellular potassium concentration ([K+]i) based on chemical analysis and the assumption that potassium was homo...