Hydrogen is considered to be a novel antioxidant as it inhibits inflammation, removes oxygen-derived free radicals and reduces oxidative damage. This study investigated the effects of hydrogen-rich saline on plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in rats with uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UHS). The UHS model was induc...

Alimentary lipemia stimulates the transfer of cholesteryl ester between lipoproteins in vitro and may alter lipoprotein cholesteryl ester distribution in vivo. The effect of a single, large oral fat load on lipoprotein cholesteryl ester redistribution and the activity of cholesteryl ester transfer protein was investigated in six normolipidemic men (Group A), six combined hyperlipidemic men (Gro...

An Ag-Pd-Cu-Au casting alloy was subjected to solution treatment at various temperatures. The dynamic hardness of each resultant microstructure and the Vickers hardness of the whole alloy were measured to investigate their relationship with changes in metal and crystal structure of the alloy and microstructural elemental concentration. The samples following solution treatment at 650, 700, 750, ...

CrBx thin films with 1.90 ? x 2.08 have been deposited by direct-current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) from a stoichiometric CrB2 target at 5 and 20 mTorr (0.67 2.67 Pa) Ar pressure onto sapphire (0001) substrates. All films, irrespective of deposition conditions, exhibit texture. Attesting to the achievement close-to-stoichiometric composition, epitaxial film growth is observed 900°C, while 500 ...

Nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) and T-cell/histiocyte-rich B-cell lymphoma (T/HRBCL) are distinct tumors and are treated differently. They are linked by a morphologic and probably a biologic continuum, which renders the differential diagnosis difficult. To develop criteria to distinguish the entities along the morphologic continuum, we correlated the lymph node architect...

Here we present a high-resolution cytogenomic analysis of chicken microchromosome 16. We established the location of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-B and -Y subregions relative to each other and to the nucleolus organizer region (NOR) encoding the 18S-5.8S-28S ribosomal DNA. To do so, we employed multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization using large-insert bacterial artificial c...

The nucleotide sequence of gene PBI, the putative translational product of which is homologous to salivary proline-rich protein P-B, has been determined. PBI is 6.4 kb long and contains 3 exons. PBI appears to code for the precursor of a proline-rich protein which we have designated P-B1. The P-B1 precursor is composed of 134 amino acid residues including 22 residues of signal sequence, 23 resi...

Lipid rafts in eukaryotic cells are sphingolipid and cholesterol-rich, ordered membrane regions that have been postulated to play roles in many membrane functions, including infection. We previously demonstrated the existence of cholesterol-lipid-rich domains in membranes of the prokaryote, B. burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease [LaRocca et al. (2010) Cell Host & Microbe 8, 331-342...