Shawn A. Putnam, Larry W. Byrd, Alejandro M. Briones, Michael S. Hanchak, Jamie S. Ervin, and John G. Jones Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Thermal Sciences and Materials Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433, USA Universal Technology Corporation, 1270 N. Fairfield Rd., Dayton, Ohio 45432, USA Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, Ther...

F. C. Yang, J. A. Muñoz, 2 O. Hellman, L. Mauger, M. S. Lucas, 3 S. J. Tracy, M. B. Stone, D. L. Abernathy, Yuming Xiao, and B. Fultz Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 The Datum Institute, Beaverton, OR 97005 Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...

An 83-year-old Japanese man presented with a 2-month history of symptomatic nodules on the left hand. He was not in an immunocompromised condition and reported no causal events. A biopsy specimen demonstrated granulomatous tissue with mixed cell infiltration consisting of neutrophils, histiocytes, lymphocytes, and multinuclear giant cells. No bacillus was detected by PAS, acid-fast stain, immun...

To evaluate Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining using variants of carbol-fuchsin solution, duplicate smears from 416 samples were stained with ZN, one set with 1% basic fuchsin and the other 0.3%. Another set of duplicate smears from 398 samples were stained with ZN, one with 1% basic fuchsin and the other 0.1%. The coded smears were read and discrepancies resolved. All samples underwent mycobacterial ...

Jaafar A. El-Awady,1,* Christopher Woodward,1 Dennis M. Dimiduk,1 and Nasr M. Ghoniem2 1Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/RXLM Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7817, USA 2Mechanical and Aerospace Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1597, USA Received 2 July 2009; revised manuscript received 12 August 2009; published 9 Se...

In developing countries pulmonary tuberculosis is usually diagnosed by detecting acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in sputum using a Ziehl-Neelsen (Z-N) staining method. However, in the field the traditional method of staining is difficult to carry out. This study evaluates the efficiency of two cold staining methods, namely Gabbet’s and a modified two reagent cold staining method compared with the Z-N t...

Infoscitex Inc., Dayton, OH, United States, Warfighter Interfaces Division, Applied Neuroscience Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB), Dayton, OH, United States, Wright State Research Institute, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States, Kettering Health Network Innovation Center, Kettering, OH, United States, Grandview Medical Center, Kettering Health Network, Dayton, OH, United State...

In the preceding accompanying paper [Shu, X., et al. (2007) Biochemistry 46, 12005-12013], the 1.5 A resolution crystal structure of green fluorescent protein (GFP) variant S65T/H148D is presented, and the possible consequences of an unusual short hydrogen bond (<or=2.4 A) between the carboxyl oxygen of Asp148 and the phenol oxygen of the chromophore are discussed. This work reports the femtose...

AIM The histopathological features of the iris in leprosy were studied by light microscopy. METHOD Formalin fixed and paraffin embedded iris tissue excised during cataract surgery from 20 leprosy patients were sectioned and studied with haematoxylin and eosin stain and modified Fite Faraco's stain for acid fast bacilli (AFB). RESULTS Chronic inflammatory reactions were seen in the iris of 1...