Cytokines and oxygen free radicals have been implicated in the potential pathogenic development of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). We aimed to analyze the relationship between clinical status, circulating levels of cytokines, and markers of oxidative damage during the treatment with anti-TNFα antibodies. The patient chosen for treatment had not had improvement through a number of convent...

The effects of a monoclonal antibody (B8E5) directed against the second extracellular loop of the muscarinic M(2) receptor were studied on the L-type Ca(2+) currents (I(Ca,L)) of guinea pig ventricular myocytes using the whole cell patch-clamp technique. Similar to carbachol, B8E5 reduced the isoproterenol (ISO)-stimulated I(Ca,L) but did not significantly affect basal I(Ca,L). Atropine blocked...

Herpes-type viruses recovered from established cell lines were coated by homologous rabbit antisera as visualized by electron microscopy. These chronically infected cell lines were derived from malignant human tissues. Cross reaction was detected among the herpes-type viruses iso lated from African and American patients afflicted with neoplastic disorders. This group of viruses are not related ...

BACKGROUND Soy isoflavones have numerous biological properties that suggest that they may protect against colorectal cancer. Colorectal epithelial cell proliferation has been used extensively as an intermediate endpoint biomarker for colorectal neoplasia. OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that supplementation with soy protein containing isoflavones decreases colorectal epithelial cell prolif...

Background & Objective: Dangerous O is very important to transfusion medicine and there has been reports by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding some death relating incidences. As high iso-antibody production is closely associated with different immune reactions, a survey on the different immune response of dangerous O donors can lead to understanding their immune respo...

Computational Modelling is a resource hungry discipline requiring extensive expertise and large amounts of time. The ISO-STEP (International Standards Organisation Standard for the Exchange of Product Model data) is proposing an integrated product model for CFD applications. This paper presents a specification for a STEP compliant building product model for CFD analysis incorporating IBM’s Open...

The international community, including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is currently seeking more granular systems of language identifiers than the widely used tags of ISO 639 parts 1 and 2. There is growing need for the more precise identification and annotation of language-based resources. This paper presents a key response to this need, in which the Linguasphere Regi...

On the contrary, discussion is still opet whether ABO iso-immunization induces a condition identical in every way with hemolytic disease of the newborn due to anti-Rh. Some evidence show-s that this may occasionally happen.’ ‘ . 15 , 37 ,16, 38 ,4 #{149} 22 More atypical forms were, how’ever, described Oil the basis of serological findings, the mother’s serum contailling an immune antibody anti...

Context: Quality of Service (QoS) is a major issue in various web service related activities. Quality models have been proposed as the engineering artefact to provide a common framework of understanding for QoS, by defining the quality factors that apply to web service usage. Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the current state of the art of the proposed quality models for web ser...