Aim use of inhalational insulin was limited due to its high cost and its potential to produce respiratory adverse effects. So current study was designed to evaluate the acute effects of insulin on airway reactivity and protective effects of salbutamol and ipratropium against insulin induced airway hyper-responsiveness on isolated tracheal smooth muscle of guinea pig. Material and methods: effec...

relationship to proportion of regulatory T cells. Methods: Forty-five patients with history of systemic symptoms of allergy to Hymenoptera venom were included. Basophil reactivity before the treatment and after one year of allergen immunotherapy (AIT) was measured by CD63 expression, CD203c marker used for basophil identification. Cells were stimulated by aqueous solution of allergen in concent...

[1] Photochemical and microbial transformations of DOM were evaluated in headwater streams draining forested and human-modified lands (pasture, cropland, and urban development) by laboratory incubations. Changes in DOC concentrations, DOC isotopic signatures, and DOM fluorescence properties were measured to assess the amounts, sources, ages, and properties of reactive and refractory DOM under t...

The majority of people who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (e.g., cutting) report that affect regulation is their primary motivation for these painful behaviors. Unfortunately, little is known about the mechanisms that regulate affect during nonsuicidal self-injury. In the present study, we examined the role of one potential mechanism known as pain offset relief. In 42 participants (21 self-c...

In this paper, we discuss both theoretical and implementation issues of a vision based control approach applied to a mobile robot. After having brieey presented a visual servoing framework based on the task function approach, we point out some problems of its application to the case of mobile nonholonomic robots. We will show how using additional degrees of freedom provided by a manipulator arm...

This reaction allows for new olefins to be synthesized and used as raw materials in polymers, perfumes, drugs and agrochemical industrial products, also serving as the starting point for more complex organic molecules. Catalytic systems are based mainly on the metals W, Mo, Re and Ru. The metal-alkylidenes synthesized by Schrock, [Mo(CHR)(NAr)(OR f ) 2 ], Grubbs, [Ru(CHR)(PCy 3 ) 2 Cl 2 ], Herr...