BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Bone marrow (BM) and blood stem cell (BSC) allografts differ considerably with respect to their content of progenitor cells and progenitor cell subsets as well as mature lymphocytes. The aim of this prospective, randomized study was to determine whether these differences have an impact on early post-transplant immune recovery. DESIGN AND METHODS In a prospective rand...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) treatment is known to lead to structural and functional cellular modifications in the heart. The relevance of these changes for clinical recovery is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS We compared properties of cardiomyocytes obtained from tissue taken at explantation of the LVAD in patients with clinical recovery with those obtained from hearts of pa...

OKT3 , a murine monoclonal antibody specific to the human CD3 complex, induces immunosuppression by depletion of T cells. Administration of OKT3 results in significant release of proinflammatory cytokines, such as TNFalpha and IL1beta. Liver recipients who experience rejection within 3 weeks after transplantation with OKT3 prophylaxis recover their T cells by postoperative day 10 despite comple...

Objective Aspirated ovarian follicular fluids (FF) contain luteal granulosa cells (LGC) and other contaminating cell types. Several strategies such as the antibody binding methods, the flask method, the cell strainer, and the positive selection of granulosa aggregates after density gradient centrifugation, were tested as LGCs purification methods. Each of these strategies has its own advantages...

In this paper we present SCMS-ER: Small Cell Management System Emergency Recovery. SCMS-ER provides a way of backing up Small Cell Management System critical data across two geographic locations. It also provides a plan for replication of backup data so that the client data is recoverable in the event of a disaster on the main site. Keywords—small cell, Femto cell, redundancy, geographic redund...

background: spinal cord has a limited capacity to repair therefore, medical interventions are necessary for treatment of injuries. transplantation of schwann cells has shown a great promising result for spinal cord injury (sci). however, harvesting schwann cell has been limited due to donor morbidity and limited expansion capacity. furthermore, accessible sources such as bone marrow stem cells ...

BACKGROUND Suboptimal CD4+ T cell recovery during antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a common clinical dilemma. METHODS We analyzed viral and immunologic predictors of CD4+ T cell recovery in 116 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected subjects who had suppressed viremia (< or = 50 copies/mL) while receiving ART. Successive measurements of T cell immunophenotypes and cellular HIV-1 ...

The protective effects of Rheum tanguticum polysaccharide 1 (RTP1), which is extracted from the Chinese traditional medicine Rheum tanguticum, on radiation-induced intestinal mucosal injury was investigated. Rat intestinal crypt epithelial cells (IEC-6 cells) and Sprague-Dawley rats were each divided into control, irradiated and RTP1-pretreated irradiated groups. After irradiation, cell surviva...

Removal, recovery, and recycles of gold(III) from aqueous tetrachloroauric acid solution using immobilized Pseudomonas saccharophila was investigated. The effect pH, cell amounts on gold removal, the time course removal by P. cells, which removed large a containing hydrogen tetrachloroauric(III) were reported in detail. Additionally, to approve amount recovery much higher, biosorption...