The effect of coating monosodium urate crystals (MSU) with low density lipoprotein (LDL), postulated previously as a major regulator of gouty inflammation, was studied in a neutrophil chemiluminescence (CL) assay and an air pouch model of inflammation induced by MSU. LDL crystalline coating abrogated the neutrophil CL response but, in contrast, had no inhibitory effect on leucocyte accumulation...

P. Sarriguren,1,* A. Algora,2,3 and J. Pereira4,5 1Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain 2Instituto de Fı́sica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de Valencia, E-46071 Valencia, Spain 3Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4026 Debrecen, Hungary 4National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan 48823,...

The investigation of thermal and excess noise in the high-Q modes of all fused silica suspension for the Advanced LIGO test masses.. 2 1.2 The investigation of thermal and excess noise in the fused silica plates with multilayer reflective coating. .

S17(0), has now been measured with high precision (±5% or better) by different groups and good agreement is found, even when very different methods are employed. We review the decade long research program to measure the cross section of the Be(p, γ)B reaction using the Coulomb dissociation method, including the pioneering RIKEN1 experiment carried out during March 1992, followed by RIKEN2, GSI1...

S17(0), has now been measured with high precision (±5% or better) by different groups and good agreement is found, even when very different methods are employed. We review the decade long research program to measure the cross section of the Be(p, γ)B reaction using the Coulomb dissociation method, including the pioneering RIKEN1 experiment carried out during March 1992, followed by RIKEN2, GSI1...

Gout is an inflammatory arthritis characterized by the deposition of monosodium urate crystals (MSU) in the synovial membrane, articular cartilage and periarticular tissues leading to inflammation. Men are more commonly affected, mainly after the 5th decade of life. Its incidence has been growing with the population ageing. In the majority of the cases, the diagnosis is made by clinical criteri...

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I Summary 2 A The impro vem ents of the Q-factor of the suspension modes . . . . . . . . 2 B The developmen t and the realization of methods of measuremen ts of the excess noise in all-fused-silica bers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 C The investigation of the sources of noises produced by electrostatic actuators 4 D The analysis of new topologies and new meters for the adv anced L...

A series of model experiments with the coupled Max-Planck-Institute ECHAM5/OM climate model have been investigated and compared with microwave measurements from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and re-analysis data for the period 1979-2008. The evaluation is carried out by computing the Temperature in the Lower Troposphere (TLT) and Temperature in the Middle Troposphere (TMT) using the MSU wei...