Cell Therapy 2001: Introduction

Introduction: reviews of environmental health, 2001.

3 Mixed feelings of excitement, anticipation, and concern marked the end of the last century and millennium. This was especially true in communication and information technology. Over the past 10 years there has been an exponential growth in these fields. Rapid communication has become the norm for many people. In fact, if executives at Finland's Nokia Oyj are correct in their prediction, one b...

Immune ablation and stem-cell therapy in autoimmune disease: Introduction

Estimates of the prevalence of autoimmune diseases range from 3 to 7%, and the treatment of a minority of these patients with severe progressive disease is not satisfactory. It has been recognized that the autoimmune basis of human disease results from the failure of multiple components of the immune system, but the most frequently used criteria to establish the autoimmune nature of a disease i...

Introduction: anti-adhesion therapy in sickle cell disease.

In this issue of Blood, Kaul et al1 report that stimulation by platelet-activating factor (PAF) of artificially perfused rat mesocecum ex vivo promotes the adhesion of human sickle red blood cells (SS RBC) to postcapillary endothelium. Notably, this adhesive interaction was blocked by two different monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) to endothelial aVb3 integrin receptor, with resulting improvement i...

Introduction to the CoNLL-2001 shared task: clause identification

We describe the CoNLL-2001 shared task: dividing text into clauses. We give background information on the data sets, present a general overview of the systems that have taken part in the shared task and briefly discuss their performance.

Guest Editors' Introduction: 2001 International Conference on Software Maintenance