We investigated the role of antibodies against the mature portion of glycoprotein G (mgG-2) of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) in protective immunity after vaccination. Mice were immunized intramuscularly with mgG-2 and oligodeoxynucleotides containing two CpG motifs plus alum as adjuvant. All C57BL/6 mice survived and presented no genital or systemic disease. High levels of immunoglobulin G sub...

s i n c e t h e l a t e 1960s, s e v e r a l c o n s t i t u t i v e m o d e l s h a v e b e e n d e v e l o p e d f o r s a n d s d e s c r i b i n g t h e i r s t r e s s-s t r a i n e h a v i o r. m o s t o f t h e s e m o d e l s w e r e e s t a b l i s h e d b a s e d o n a m e a s u r e o f t h e p l a s t i c w o r k a n d s o m e y i e l d c r i t e r i a, a m o n g t h e m b e i n g t ...

Cells binding DNP groups conjugated to fluoresceinated mouse gamma globulin ((F)DNP-MGG) were isolated from spleens of unprimed mice using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS). The isolated cells were specifically enriched at least 100-fold for anti-DNP precursor activity in an adoptive transfer assay as compared to unfractionated spleen. The fraction depleted of binding cells, although ...

We prove that the Deligne-Lusztig variety associated to minimal length elements in any δ-conjugacy class of the Weyl group is affine, which was conjectured by Orlik and Rapoport in [10]. 1.1 Notations. Let k be an algebraic closure of the finite prime field Fp and G be a connected reductive algebraic group over k with an endomorphism F : G → G such that some power F d of F is the Frobenius endo...

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Matrix Graph Grammars (MGG) is a novel approach to the study of graph dynamics ([15]). In the present contribution we look at MGG as a formal grammar and as a model of computation, which is a necessary step in the more ambitious program of tackling complexity theory through MGG. We also study its relation with other well-known models such as Turing machines (TM) and Boolean circuits (BC) as wel...

This paper investigates the adaptability of genotypes produced by a modified genome growth algorithm (MGG) in a genetic algorithm. MGG uses constructional selection, a genome growth strategy modeled on the evolution of the biological genome [1]. Experiments did not favor the more costly MGG genotypes. This paper also proposes a new type of mutation operator: meth, which is loosely based on DNA ...