The objective of this study was to design and prepare a new contrast agent of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for the evaluation of therapeutic angiogenesis. Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) residue of a chelator was chemically introduced to dextran with a molecular weight of 74,000 (dextran-DTPA). Cyclic peptide containing an arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) sequence (cyclic RGD) ...

The molecular basis of gd T cell receptor (TCR) recognition is poorly understood. Here, we analyze the TCR sequences of a natural gd T cell population specific for the major histocompatibility complex class Ib molecule T22. We find that T22 recognition correlates strongly with a somatically recombined TCRd complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) motif derived from germ line– encoded residue...

Gambling Disorder (GD) is characterized by "the failure to resist gambling impulses despite severe personal, family or occupational consequences". In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), GD replaces the DSM-IV diagnosis of Pathological Gambling (PG). GD estimated prevalence ranges between 0.4% and 3.4% within the adult population and it seems t...

The performance of glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry for oxygen determination is investigated using a set of new conductive samples containing oxygen in the percent range in three different matrices (Al, Mg, and Cu) prepared by a sintering process. The sputtering rate corrected calibrations obtained at standard conditions for the 4 mm anode (700 V, 20 mA) in GD-...

One step in the process of herpes simplex virus (HSV) entry into cells is the binding of viral glycoprotein D (gD) to a cellular receptor. Human nectin-2 (also known as HveB and Prr2), a member of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily, serves as a gD receptor for the entry of HSV-2, variant forms of HSV-1 that have amino acid substitutions at position 25 or 27 of gD (for example, HSV-1/Rid), and ...

Rauch et al [1] have measured the absorption cross section of natural Gd and isotopically enriched Gd for neutron energies extending into the ultracold energy region [2] using Gd compounds dissolved in D2O. For the case of Gd the result for neutrons with a velocity of 10 m/sec (49.7 Mbarns) was found to be less than the value obtained by extrapolating the value at thermal energies (v = 2200 m/s...

We show that gas diffusion nuclear magnetic resonance (GD-NMR) provides a powerful technique for probing the structure of porous media. In random packs of glass beads, using both laser-polarized and thermally polarized xenon gas, we find that GD-NMR can accurately measure the pore space surface-area-to-volume ratio, S/V rho, and the tortuosity, alpha (the latter quantity being directly related ...

Annerbo, M. 2016. Calcium Homeostasis in Patients with Graves' Disease. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1212. 51 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9552-7. Patients with Graves ́ Disease (GD) have a higher risk of developing more severe and prolonged hypocalcaemia after total thyroidectomy (TT) than patients who unde...

Kagnoff, Martin F. Current Concepts in Mucosal Immunity. III. Ontogeny and function of gd T cells in the intestine. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 37): G455– G458, 1998.—gd T cells are located in the paracellular space between epithelial cells. In the human colon and small intestine, 5–40% of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) are gd T cells, and in mice an even greater propor...

Appendix (Constructions of the desired graph designs in the last table of our paper) In the following constructions, the block set of each G k-GD(v) is denoted by B k (v), and its vertex set is taken as (Z 3 × Z 2) {∞} for v = 7, or Z v for v = 8, 15, 29, or Z v−1 {∞} for v = 14, 28 besides other set, which will be specially denoted.