INTRODUCTION Exogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is an uncommon condition resulting from aspirating or inhaling fatlike material. These substances elicit a foreign body reaction and proliferative fibrosis in the lung. CASE REPORT We report a case of a 38-year-old woman with bilateral pulmonary infiltration. There were no clinical symptoms of this infiltration at diagnosis. The infiltration was f...

The oxidation of nitric oxide (NO) by Euphorbia characias latex peroxidase (ELP-Fe(III)), in the presence or in the absence of added calcium, has been investigated. The addition of hydrogen peroxide to the native enzyme leads to the formation of Compound I and serves to catalyse the NO oxidation. The addition of NO to Compound I leads to the formation of Compound II and, afterwards, to the nati...

OBJECTIVE Examine the association between English language proficiency (ELP) and immigrant generation and having made a cigarette smoking quit attempt in the past 12 months among Latinos. Examine if gender moderates the association between acculturation and quit attempts. METHODS Latino past year smokers from the 2003 and 2006/07 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey were an...

A simple and universal platform for competitive phase-separation immunoassay is reported based on a fusion protein composed of a temperature-responsive elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) and the antibody-binding staphylococcal protein A (SpA). The basic principle is to take advantage of the ability of SpA to bind a variety of antibodies with high affinity, allowing simple separation of antigen-anti...

Protein bodies (PBs) are organelles found in seeds whose main function is the storage of proteins that are used during germination for sustaining growth. PBs can also be induced to form in leaves when foreign proteins are produced at high levels in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and when fused to one of three tags: Zera®, elastin-like polypeptides (ELP), or hydrophobin-I (HFBI). In this study, ...

Abstract Various stakeholders, such as policymakers and educators, require diagnostic feedback actionable test results. One particular context in which fine-grained results are of utmost importance is English language proficiency (ELP) assessments they used for critical decisions students. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) afford finer levels to improve learning outcomes. This study part ...

The efficiency of a recently proposed novel global optimization method, energy landscape paving (ELP), is evaluated with regard to the problem of crystal structure determination from simulated X-ray diffraction data comprising integrated diffraction intensities. The new approach has been tested using the example of 9-(methylamino)-1H-phenalen-1-one 1,4-dioxan-2-y1 hydroperoxide solvate (C14H11N...

Extreme-ultraviolet late phase (ELP) refers to the second extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) radiation enhancement observed in certain solar flares, which usually occurs tens of minutes several hours after peak soft X-ray emission. The coronal loop system that hosts ELP emission is often different from main flaring arcade, and enhanced EUV therein may imply an additional heating process. However, origin...

Exogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is a rare (incidence 1.0%-2.5%), often under-diagnosed disease, caused by the aspiration and accumulation of exogenous lipids within the pulmonary alveoli. Various cases have been described due to inhalation of lubricants via the nasal passages and oropharynx, aspiration of mineral oils in laxatives in patients with eating disorders, application of lip gloss, oc...

A 67-year-old woman with a long-standing history of recurrent dysphagia and esophageal strictures failed to respond to aggressive antireflux management. She required multiple dilations for symptomatic strictures that were discovered throughout the esophagus. Intralesional, topical, and systemic glucocorticoid therapies were utilized without resolution in symptoms. Several years after initial pr...