Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a suitable and powerful diagnostic testing method for fuel cells (FCs) since it is non-destructive and provides useful information about FC performance and its components. In this study, for the first time, a 500W cascade type 4 cells stack with integrated humidifier, water separator and internal manifolds was designed, fabricated and tested. The ...

To maintain organismal homeostasis, phagocytes engulf dead cells, which are recognized as dead by virtue of a characteristic "eat me" signal exposed on their surface. The dead cells are then transferred to lysosomes, where their cellular components are degraded for reuse. Inefficient engulfment of dead cells activates the immune system, causing disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus, and ...

During viral infection, dendritic cells (DCs) capture infected cells and present viral Ags to CD8(+) T cells. However, activated DCs might potentially present cell-associated Ags derived from captured dead cells. In this study, we find that human DCs that captured dead cells containing the TLR3 agonist poly(I:C) produced cytokines and underwent maturation, but failed to elicit autologous CD8(+)...

The most recent major advances in the study of programmed cell death (PCD) in plants include the observation that peptide inhibitors of caspases inhibit the hypersensitive response. Nitric oxide has been shown to be required for the induction of disease related PCD. Mutant analysis has led to the cloning of the first genes involved in PCD related disease resistance, LSD1 and MLO.

electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) is a suitable and powerful diagnostic testing method for fuel cells (fcs) since it is non-destructive and provides useful information about fc performance and its components. in this study, for the first time, a 500w cascade type 4 cells stack with integrated humidifier, water separator and internal manifolds was designed, fabricated and tested. the ...

acrophages can clean up the detritus of dying cells. But that, say Jody Rosenblatt, Martin Raff, and Louise Cramer (University College London, London, UK), is not the whole story. They have found that cells undergoing apoptosis in an epithelial sheet signal to their neighbors to begin squeezing, in a process that maintains the barrier function of the epithelium while extruding the dying cell. M...

VAIRO, MARINA L. R. (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil) AND WALTER BORZANI. Precise adsorption method for measuring the percentage of dead bacterial cells. Appl. Microbiol. 10: 500-503. 1962.-It was observed that Freundlich's law is obeyed when methylene blue is adsorbed from different aqueous solutions by mixtures of dead and live bacterial cells. A simple and precise colorimetric met...

Probiotics are usually defined as products which contain viable non-pathogenic micro-organisms able to confer health benefits to the host. There are specific gastrointestinal effects of probiotics such as alleviating inflammatory bowel disease, reducing acute diarrhoea in children, inhibiting Salmonella and Helicobacter pylori, removing cholesterol, secreting enzymes and bacteriocins and immuno...

SUMMARY In the zona pellucida-intact 95 h post coitum mouse blastocyst, electron-microscopic studies reveal the presence, as a part of normal development, of 1-2 dead cells lying free on the surface of the inner cell mass (ICM) or trophoblast cells, and of 4-5 dead cells phago-cytosed by ICM cells. Such dead cells are electron-dense and show characteristic chromato-pyenosis of the nucleus, and ...