introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare estimation of radiation absorbed doses to patients following bone scans with technetium-99m-labeled methylene diphosphonate (mdp) with the estimates given in mirdose software. methods: in this study, each patient was injected 25 mci of 99m tc-mdp. whole-body images from thirty patients were acquired by gamma camera at 10, 60, 90, 180 minute...

s of papers 37 158 Effect of intra-abdominal injection of lipopolysaccharide or muramyl dipeptide on the acute phase response in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). E.A. Koutsos* and K.C. Klasing, University of California, Davis, California. Experiments were conducted in Japanese quail to determine the effect of repeated injections of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the cell wall of the ...

a nine-month old male child presented with low-grade fever, loose stools and facial puffiness. clinically patient was otherwise normal except for a firm liver on palpation. the laboratory tests revealed hypoproteinemia (both albumin and globulin) and iron deficiency anemia. differential diagnosis considered were: 1. nephrotic syndrome, 2. cystic fibrosis (in view of recurrent diarrhea and respi...

A simple and accurate genomic primer extension method has been developed to detect ultraviolet footprinting patterns of regulatory protein-DNA interactions in mammalian genomic DNA. The technique can also detect footprinting or sequencing patterns introduced into genomic DNA by other methods. Purified genomic DNA, containing either damaged bases or strand breaks introduced by footprinting or se...

In contrast with random-primed RACE (1) and RNA-PCR (2) which can be done to amplify respectively specific 5'or 3'-cDNA ends, random-PCR (rPCR) can be used to amplify the whole cDNA population, from 5' to 3' ends, derived from small amounts of RNA transcripts. This quick rPCR method allows construction of whole cDNA libraries from as little as one eukaryotic cell, 100 parasites or bacteria, or ...

T-vectors have been widely used in molecular cloning [1–3]. Compared with common vectors, molecular cloning with T-vectors escapes the restriction endonuclease digestion process, decreases the time of DNA purification and thus is time-saving and cost-effective. There are two ways to produce T-vectors: (i) cutting the target vector with EcoRV and then adding a thymine residue to the 3′-blunt end...

In this report we describe a new POMDP algorithm, denoted TEQ-MDP, which computes the optimal policy of a modified MDP and uses the obtained optimal solution to compute the action for the POMDP, as a function of the belief-state. The modified MDP includes state entropy information (transition entropy) in its reward structure so as to value actions that gather information. This algorithm is suit...

Methionine-dependence phenotype (MDP) refers to the reduced ability of cells to proliferate when methionine is restricted and/or replaced by its immediate precursor homocysteine. MDP is a characteristic of human tumors in vivo, human tumor cell lines, and normal somatic tissue in some individuals. It was hypothesized that MDP is a risk factor for developing breast cancer in BRCA (BRCA1 and BRCA...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the micro-shear bond strength dual-cure resin cement zirconia surface pretreated with different techniques. Twenty-four sintered Y-TZP discs (Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.) a diameter and thickness 11.8 mm 5.0 mm, respectively, were used for present divided into four groups according pretreatment procedures: 1) control group without any pretreatment; 2) MDP ...