In Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-infected wild-type mice, there was a large expansion of an activated (CD44(hi)) splenic CD4 T cell population followed by a rapid contraction of this population to normal numbers. Contraction of the activated CD4 T cell population in wild-type mice was associated with increased apoptosis of activated CD4 T cells. In BCG-infected interferon (I...

T helper 2 (Th2) cytokines interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-13, which activate signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) are expressed in the muscularis externa during nematode infection and are candidate mediators of the associated hypercontractility. To determine the locus of action of these cytokines, we examined the IL-4- and IL-13-induced hypercontractility of the isolated muscle...

Both innate and adaptive immune responses participate in the control of murine cytomegalovirus (mCMV) infection. In some mouse strains, like BALB/c, the control of infection relies on the activities of CD8(+) T cells. mCMV-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses are unusual in that, even after mCMV has been controlled in the periphery, the numbers of circulating virus-specific CD8(+) T cells remain hi...

the purpose of this paper is to obtain necessary and suffcient conditionsfor existence approximate fixed point on geraghty-contraction. in this paper,denitions of approximate -pair fixed point for two maps tα , sα and theirdiameters are given in a metric space.

The development of T cell memory from naive precursors is influenced by molecular cues received during T cell activation and differentiation. In this study, we describe a novel role for the chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR3 in regulating effector CD8(+) T cell contraction and memory generation after influenza virus infection. We find that Ccr5(-/-) Cxcr3(-/-) cells show markedly decreased cont...

We develop a dilation theory for row contractions where P is a set of noncommutative polynomials. The model n-tuple is the universal row contraction [B1,. .. , Bn] satisfying the same constraints as T , which turns out to be, in a certain sense, the maximal constrained piece of the n-tuple [S1,. .. , Sn] of left creation operators on the full Fock space on n generators. The theory is based on a...

the purpose of present study is testing influence of injection oxytocin immediately after parturition and injection prostaglandin f2α, 20 to 25 days after parturition in dairy cows upon process of uterus contraction distance between delivery till first estrus distance between parturition till first and second semenation, amount of pregnancy at first semenation and number of semenation for every...

Viscosity approximation methods for nonexpansive mappings in CAT 0 spaces are studied. Consider a nonexpansive self-mapping T of a closed convex subsetC of a CAT 0 spaceX. Suppose that the set Fix T of fixed points of T is nonempty. For a contraction f on C and t ∈ 0, 1 , let xt ∈ C be the unique fixed point of the contraction x → tf x ⊕ 1 − t Tx. We will show that if X is a CAT 0 space satisfy...

Random fixed point theorems for condensing 1-set contraction selfmaps are known. But no random fixed point theorem for more general asymptotic 1-set contraction selfmaps is yet available. The purpose of this paper is to prove random fixed point theorems for such maps. 1. Introduction. Random fixed point theorems are stochastic versions of (classical or deterministic) fixed point theorems and ar...

For an $$n\times n$$ complex matrix C, the C-numerical range of a bounded linear operator T acting on Hilbert space dimension at least n is set numbers $$\textrm{tr}\,(CX\,^*\,TX)$$ , where X partial isometry satisfying $$X^*X = I_n$$ . It shown that $$\begin{aligned} \textbf{cl}(W_C(T)) \cap \{\textbf{cl}(W_C(U)): U \hbox { unitary dilation } T\} \end{aligned}$$ for any contraction if and only...