D16

DELIVERABLE D16: Conceptual design of intelligent software agents

Pii: S0022-4073(02)00218-2

Pressure-broadened half-widths of 2 transitions are determined using the complex Robert–Bonamy formal9 ism for four isotopomers of water vapor: H18 2 O; H 17 2 O; HD O, and D16 2 O. The calculations are made with nitrogen and oxygen as the perturbing gases. A survey of the literature revealed N2-broadened measurements 11 of 365, 61, 990, and 545 2 transitions of the H18 2 O; H 17 2 O; HD O, and...

Cerebral and Peripheral Changes Occurring in Nitric Oxide (NO) Synthesis in a Rat Model of Sleeping Sickness: Identification of Brain iNOS Expressing Cells

BACKGROUND The implication of nitric oxide (NO) in the development of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) using an animal model, was examined. The manner by which the trypanocidal activity of NO is impaired in the periphery and in the brain of rats infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei (T. b. brucei) was analyzed through: (i) the changes occurring in NO concentration in both peripheral (blood...

Association of an asporin repeat polymorphism with ankylosing spondylitis in Han Chinese population: a case-control study.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of a functional polymorphism consisting of an aspartic acid (D) repeat located in the asporin gene (ASPN) gene in the susceptibility to and clinical outcome of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS A total of 374 Chinese patients with ankylosing spondylitis and 421 controls of the same ethnic origin matched for age and sex were included in the study. The aspor...

Placental phenotype and resource allocation to fetal growth are modified by the timing and degree of hypoxia during mouse pregnancy

The placenta adapts its transport capacity to nutritional cues developmentally, although relatively little is known about placental transport phenotype in response to hypoxia, a major cause of fetal growth restriction. The present study determined the effects of both moderate hypoxia (13% inspired O2) between days (D)11 and D16 or D14 and D19 of pregnancy and severe hypoxia (10% inspired O2) fr...