It was reported that high potassium solution (isotonic, 40 mm) induced a tension development in guinea pig taenia coli accompanied by an increase in oxygen consumption (1). Intracellular Ca space increased in high K medium as well as cellular Ca fraction which did not exchange within 4 minutes. The latter is referred to "tightly bound fraction (TBF)" (2). By addition of ouabain (2.5 X 10-'m) to...

BACKGROUND Anaplasma phagocytophilum (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) is an obligate intracellular bacterium causing the disease tick-borne fever (TBF) in domestic ruminants. An effective vaccine against the infection has been demanded for livestock by sheep farmers and veterinary practitioners for years. FINDINGS In the present study, we immunized lambs with an inactivated suspension of 1...

Tick-borne fever (TBF) caused by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) and transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus is a common disease in domestic ruminants on the west coast of southern Norway (Stuen 1997). TBF in cattle and sheep is characterized by high fever, reduced milk yield, inclusions in circulating neutrophils, leucopenia, abortions and reduced fer...

Elevated interstitial fluid pressure (IFP) may constitute a significant physiological barrier to drug delivery in solid tumors. Strategies for overcoming this barrier have not been developed to date. To identify and characterize various mechanisms regulating IFP and to develop strategies for overcoming the IFP barrier, we modeled the tumor as a poroelastic solid. We used this model to simulate ...

This study is the first to report approximations of energy requirements for male and female breast-fed and formula-fed infants based on individual estimates of total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) and energy deposition derived from total body fat (TBF) and fat-free mass (FFM) gain as determined by total-body electrical conductivity. In 46 healthy, full-term infants the effect of > or = 4 mo of...

Abstract Objective It is unclear to what degree acutely violating bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) measurement assumptions will alter the predicted percent fat mass (%FM) and whether this differs by sex or body index (BMI). Methods %FM was assessed under control, dehydration, exercise, water, food intake non-voided bladder conditions with three BIA devices (Tanita: BC-418, TBF-314, & ...

برای دستیابی به مزیت رقابتی در شرایط عدم‌­اطمینان که آن تغییر ضروری است، یکی از چالش‌های بزرگ سازمان‌ها کاهش ریسک طریق ایجاد زنجیره‌های تأمین تاب‌آور است. تاب‌آوری زنجیره ‌تأمین توانایی مقابله با اختلال اشاره دارد یک رویداد غیرقابل‌پیش‌بینی بوده و دارای منابع داخلی خارجی مختلفی ازجمله بلایای طبیعی ریسک‌های عملیاتی پژوهش حاضر شبیه‌سازی توسط نرم‌افزار ارنا زنجیره‌ سنگ ساختمانی «کارخانه سنگبری آسم...

Sexual size dimorphism is widespread throughout seabird taxa and several drivers leading to its evolution have been hypothesised. While the Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) has previously been considered nominally monomorphic, recent studies have documented sexual segregation in diet and foraging areas, traits often associated with size dimorphism. The present study investigated the sex dif...

We present a tool, called 3LB-SAT, for the semantic tagging of multilingual corpora. Main features of this tool are that it is word-oriented, allows different formats for input corpus (TBF format, PenTreebank Bracketted Format and XML) and uses EuroWordnet for searching the word sense in four languages.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an intracellular rickettsial pathogen transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, which causes granulocytic anaplasmosis in humans, horses and dogs and tick-borne fever (TBF) in ruminants. In the United States, human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is highly prevalent while TBF has not been reported. However, in Europe the situation is the opposite, with high prevalence for T...