METHODS FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION of alpha-globulins in either blood or cerebrospinal fluid fall into three general categories: (a) alcohol or salt-fractionation technics, (b) electrophoretic analyses and (c) precipitation reactions with cationic detergents at controlled pH. Salt-fractionation procedures for a-globulins using sodium sulfate precipitation at a fixed concentration are th...

Pneumoconiosis-Lyons et al. MEDICBALJURNAI Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel, Cardiff, for referral of cases; to Messrs. r. v. Oldham and G. Berry for statistical advice; and to Miss E. Dawkins for technical assistance. REFERENCES Brasseur, L. (1963). L'exploration fonctionnelle pulmonaire dans la pneumoconiose des houilleurs. Brussels. For many years E.C.H.O. viruses have been known aetiological ag...

Nahmias, André J. (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.), and Sidney Kibrick. Inhibitory effect of heparin on herpes simplex virus. J. Bacteriol. 87:1060-1066. 1964.-A substance inhibitory to herpes simplex virus was observed during experiments with leukocyte cultures. The component in the cultures responsible for this inhibition was identified as heparin. The minimal inhibitory ...

Myocarditis has long been recognized as a complication of rheumatic fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough. It also occurs in association with poliomyelitis and more rarely with other virus infections such as influenza, mumps, psittacosis, infectious mononucleosis, primary atypical pneumonia, varicella, measles, infectious hepatitis and yellow fever (Lyon, 1956; Silber, 1958). Myoc...

the present study was an attempt to investigate varieties of cloze test and c-test as measures of reading comprehension ability. it aimed at comparing the performances of subjects on different cloze and c-test forms constructed from the same passage. to this end, five versions of cloze test and two versions of c-test were developed by applying different deletion techniques and deletion rates, a...