The medicinal herb Andrographis serpyllifolia is used in various ethnobotanical preparations due to its high therapeutic value. In this study, the antibacterial activity of aqueous, hexane, chloroform and methanol extract A. extracts were tested against human pathogenic bacteria Campylobacter jejuni- ATCC 29428, Neisseria gonorrhoeae- 49226, Haemophilus influenzae- 10211, Enterobacter aerogenes...

MIC-A and MIC-B are distant MHC class I homologs that serve as stress-inducible Ags on epithelial and epithelially derived cells. They are ligands for the widely expressed activating immunoreceptor NKG2D. To define the structural and functional consequences of sequence differences between MIC-A and MIC-B and between alleles of MIC-A and alleles of MIC-B, we determined the crystal structure of o...

Performance of multistage interference cancellation (MIC) and three combining techniques, i.e., multipath decorrelating (MIC-DECO), optimum combining (MIC-OPTM), and Rake combining (MIC-RAKE) for asynchronous QPSK/ DS/CDMA over frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels is studied. The analytical bit error probabilities of the MIC-DECO and MIC-OPTM are derived and shown to be in a g...

BACKGROUND Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer. Surgery is a standard procedure to resect the tumor during total (TN) or partial (nephron-sparing) nephrectomy (PN). Ciprofloxacin is most often administered at the usual intravenous dose of 100-400 mg/12 h. The application of such low doses of ciprofloxacin as 200 mg/24 h carries the risk of achieving subtherapeuti...

Objective:  To investigate whether a low body mass index (BMI) has significant relationship with mandibular bone porosity progression by conducting inferior cortex (MIC) classification in elderly Japanese people.  Material and Methods: A total of 266 study subjects, aged 70 at baseline, were recruited for this study, conducted from 1998 to 2007. The subjects divided into two groups according ch...