The broad band X-ray spectrum of the lowmass X-ray binary (LMXB) GS 1826-238 was measured with the narrow-field instruments on BeppoSAX on April 6 and 7, 1997. The spectrum is consistent with the Comptonization of a 0.6 keV thermal spectrum by a hot cloud of temperature equivalent kT = 20 keV. During the observation two type I X-ray bursts were detected. From the bursts an upper limit to the di...

Twenty taxa of Lower Givetian rugose corals have been investigated in the Dreimühlen Formation from Meerbüsch quarry, Eifel Hills. The fauna consists mostly solitary coralla associated with some fasciculate specimens Disphyllum caespitosum (Goldfuss, 1826) and large massive colonies Argutastrea briceae (Rohart, 1988). genus Marennophyllum n. gen. is introduced Cystiphylloides marennense Coen-Au...

BACKGROUND Bacterial DNA has immunostimulatory effects on different types of immune cells such as dendritic cells (DCs). Application of DCs as a cellular adjuvant represents a promising approach in the immunotherapy of infectious disease and cancers. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of tumor antigen pulsed DCs in the presence of CpG-1826 in treatment of a murine model of cancer. METHODS ...

thousand years in China and Japan; the earliest literary reference is in The Yellow Emperor’s book of internal medicine, dating from the second or third century BC. Acupuncture reached Japan in the sixth century of the Christian era, and was introduced into Europe by ten Rhijne (1683), who had learnt about it in Japan. As a therapy, it spread very slowly in Europe. The first European and Americ...