BACKGROUND Phase angle (PhA) is derived from the resistance and reactance measurements obtained from bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) and is considered indicative of cellular health and membrane integrity. This study measured PhA values of rehabilitation patients and compared them to reference values, measures of functional ability and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels to explore their ...

Phytohemagglutinin (PHA), the seed lectin of the common bean, accumulates in protein storage vacuoles of storage parenchyma cells in cotyledons. When expressed in yeast, PHA is efficiently targeted to the yeast vacuole [Tague and Chrispeels (1987). J. Cell Biol. 105, 1971-1979]. To identify vacuolar sorting information in PHA, a series of 3' deletions of the PHA gene were fused in-frame to a tr...

A pulse height analysis (PHA) system has been installed on the Alcator C-Mod magnetic confinement fusion experiment. The PHA utilizes a Si(Li) detector to measure soft X-rays in the 1-30 keV range with an energy resolution on the order of 100eV. A FASTComtec MCA-3 multichannel analyzer allows integration times of ims while the PHA supports counting rates of up to 80kHz. The thermal electron tem...

The problem of designing a decentralized advance hazard warning system for highway transportation systems entails the development of efficient switching controllers. In this paper, we represent the vehicle dynamics by a finite number of modes, each of which is represented by a low order transfer function and a constant time delay. The problem of highway safety analysis then gets translated into...

This study explored the potential of using Rhodosprillum rubrum as the biological vehicle to convert chemically simple carbon precursors to a value-added bio-based product, the biopolymer PHA. R. rubrum strains were bioengineered to overexpress individually or in various combinations, six PHA biosynthetic genes (phaC1, phaA, phaB, phaC2, phaC3, and phaJ), and the resulting nine over-expressing ...

background: similar to inflammatory cells, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) can also infiltrate in to kidney and urinary tracts and subsequently excreted by urine. in this study we determined the viability rate and response to phytohemagglutinin-a (pha) of human pbmcs in normal urine. methods: a number of 1×106 ficoll-hypaque isolated pbmcs were dispensed in 1 ml normal urine and 6 mo...

This study investigated the apparent genetic redundancy in the biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in the Rhodospirillum rubrum genome revealed by the occurrence of three homologous PHA polymerase genes (phaC1, phaC2, and phaC3). In vitro biochemical assays established that each gene product encodes PHA polymerase. A series of single, double, and triple phaC deletion mutants were chara...

Phytohemagglutinin (PHA), an abundant vacuolar seed protein of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), is a tetramer of two homologous polypeptides, PHA-E and PHA-L. The roots of bean seedlings release into the culture medium a cross-reacting lectin that is most closely related to PHA-E. Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction with root mRNA as template was used to identify PHA transcript...

We have analyzed the transmembrane signaling operating in human cytolytic lymphocytes lacking surface expression of the CD3/TCR complex. Peripheral blood lymphocytes were fractionated into CD3+ and CD3- on the FACS and cloned under limiting conditions in the presence of PHA and IL-2. Approximately 90% CD3+ and 10% CD3- cells underwent clonal expansion. Clones obtained from the CD3- fraction bel...

[Purpose] This study examined the differences in the activities of three parts of the trapezius muscle-the upper trapezius (UT), middle trapezius (MT), and lower trapezius (LT)-among three different rotation conditions of the shoulders, while subjects performed prone horizontal abduction (PHA) at 30°, 60°, 90°, and 120° of abduction. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this experimental stud...