To determine whether labeled antibodies against oxidized LDL (OxLDL) offer advantages for quantifying atherosclerosis, we compared in vivo aortic uptake of (125)I-labeled MDA2, a monoclonal antibody against malondialdehyde-lysine epitopes), atherosclerotic surface area, and aortic weight in Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic and New Zealand White rabbits and in low density lipoprotein receptor-d...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with excessive consumption of palatable, energy dense foods. The present study used an animal model to examine feeding patterns during exposure to and withdrawal from these foods. METHODS Male Sprague Dawley rats were exposed to standard lab chow only (Chow rats) or a range of cafeteria-style foods eaten by people (Caf rats). After 1, 4, 7 and 10 weeks of diet...

C. Heneghan, 1,2 C. C. Chow, 3 J. J. Collins, 3,4 T. T. Imhoff, 3 S. B. Lowen, 1 and M. C. Teich 1,4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Department of Tele-Informatics, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 310 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10003 NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University, 44 Cummingt...

Let E : 0 → S → E → Q → 0 be a short exact sequence of hermitian vector bundles with metrics on S and Q induced from that on E. We compute the Bott-Chern form φ̃(E ) corresponding to any characteristic class φ, assuming E is projectively flat. The result is used to obtain a new presentation of the Arakelov Chow ring of the arithmetic Grassmannian.