Allergic skin tests have to be performed 4-6 weeks after an allergic anesthetic reaction. Patients with allergic reactions during anesthesia were prospectively included (n = 44). Skin tests were performed in two stages: (i) Stage 1 (S1), 0-4 days after the reaction; and (ii) Stage 2 (S2), 4-8 weeks after. Five (11.5%) surgical procedures were suspended due to the reaction. Positive skin tests w...

BACKGROUND Theoretical models suggest that an electrical stimulus causes regions of depolarization and hyperpolarization on either side of a myocardial discontinuity. This study determined experimentally whether an artificial discontinuity gives rise to an activation front in response to an electrical stimulus, consistent with the creation of such polarized regions. METHODS AND RESULTS After ...

We studied digital stethoscope recordings in children undergoing simultaneous catheterization of the pulmonary artery (PA) to determine whether time-domain analysis of heart sound intensity would aid in the diagnosis of PA hypertension (PAH). Heart sounds were recorded and stored in .wav mono audio format. We performed recordings for 20 seconds with sampling frequencies of 4,000 Hz at the secon...

In this paper we describe a control methodology for catching a fast moving object with a robot manipulator, where visual information is employed to track the trajectory of the target. Sensing, planning and control are performed in real-time to cope with possible unpredictable trajectory changes of the moving target, and prediction techniques are adopted to compensate the time delays introduced ...

Cell surface glycans play pivotal roles in immune cell trafficking and immunity. Here we present an efficient method for generating anti-carbohydrate monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) using gene-targeted mice and describe critical glycans in lymphocyte homing. We immunized sulfotransferase GlcNAc6ST-1 and GlcNAc6ST-2 doubly deficient mice with sulfotransferase-overexpressing Chinese hamster ovary ce...

S2 I Fig. 1. Cross-sectional view of dye cell showing aluminum rings AL1 and AL2, substrates S1 and S2, the sealing O-rings, and the Swagelok connectors. the entire cell could be repositioned, and another portion of the mirror could be used. In this way a single mirror could continue to be used following several damaging events. The cell, shown in Fig. 1, consists of two 5.08-cm diam, 0.95-cm t...