D8/17, a B cell alloantigen, and its occurrence with DR/DQ antigens was examined in 54 patients with rheumatic heart disease and matched North Indian controls. Thirty-four patients (62.9%) carried D8/17 as compared with a frequency of 12.5% in controls (X2 by Yates', 18.75; p<0.0001). A marginally increased frequency ofhuman leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR3 (44.2% vs. 28.8%) and a significantly redu...

In [W] and [TW] the exact WKB theoretic structure of the most degenerate third Painlevé equation of type (D8) was investigated. In this paper we announce a result that this degenerate third Painlevé equation of type (D8) plays a special role of the canonical equation near a simple pole of Painlevé equations. We also explain an outline of its proof after reviewing several relevant results of [W]...

We study baryons and baryonic matter in holographic QCD with D4/D8/D8 multi-D brane system. In large-Nc holographic QCD, the baryon appears as a topologically nontrivial chiral soliton, which is called “brane-induced Skyrmion”. We also analyze the features of the baryonic matter in holographic QCD by investigating the system of single braneinduced Skyrmion on a three-dimensional closed manifold...

Airborne transmission of Pneumocystis carinii has been established, but the infective form and the sources of infection remain unknown. Animal models for studies of P. carinii have previously been limited to immunosuppressed rodents; however, this study was performed with nonimmunodepressed P. carinii-free rabbits. This study was aimed at determining (i) the delay between inoculation of animals...

D8/17, an alloantigen found on B lymphocytes, has been reported to be elevated in patients susceptible to rheumatic fever and may be associated with autoimmune types of neuropsychiatric disorders. The pediatric-autoimmune-neuropsychiatric-disorders-associated-with-streptococci model is a putative model of pathogenesis for a group of children whose symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and T...

D8/17, a B cell alloantigen, and its occurrence with DR/DQ antigens was examined in 54 patients with rheumatic heart disease and matched North Indian controls. Thirty-four patients (62.9%) carried D8/17 as compared with a frequency of 12.5% in controls (chi 2 by Yates', 18.75; p less than 0.0001). A marginally increased frequency of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR3 (44.2% vs. 28.8%) and a sign...

Growth in developing turbot larvae can be expressed independently of temperature when using effective day-degrees (D8 ) as an index of development. The calculation of D8 is based on the eff eff principle of thermal summation whereby the rate of development is linearly related to the ambient temperature above a species-specific threshold temperature (T ) at which development is 0 theoretically a...

A nonapeptide derived from the C terminus of the insulin B chain, H(2)N-Arg-Gly-Phe-Phe-Tyr-Thr-Pro-Lys-Ala-COOH, was found to strongly inhibit dopamine (DA) uptake by rat dopamine transporter (DAT) stably expressed in CHO cells (designated D8 cells). The kinetic experiments on D8 cells gave a curve typical of competitive inhibition with an IC(50)=6.9 microM. This inhibitory effect was also con...

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