In an earlier communication (1) attention was called to the marked depressions of albumin: globulin ratios that frequently occur in the course of louse-borne typhus fever. Serum globulin concentrations in a number of cases were found to be higher than 5 grams per 100 ml. Because of the consistent rise in serum globulins in this disease, possibly a feature of the immune response, it was of inter...

OBJECTIVE To describe the analysis of geographical and temporal distribution of DNA profiles determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from hospitalized patients in a tertiary care university hospital in Brazil. METHODS Ninetynine samples of MRSA obtained from 89 patients in the period 1999-2004 were studied. M...

and their growth medium demonstrate the ability of synovial sarcoma cells to synthesize and secrete various sulfated mucopolysaccharides. The sulfated species that is predominant inside the cell appears to be a heparin-related mucopolysaccharide. These findings clarify the histochemical observations that indicate the presence, in vivo, of mucopolysaccharide species resistant to degradation by h...

The sequential removal of N-acetylneuraminic acid from rabbit serum transferrin has been followed by urea-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The electrophoretic pattern is consistent with the presence of a single biantennary glycan chain. From the amino acid sequence of the carbohydrate-containing cyanogen bromide fragment we have shown that the glycan is attached to an asparaginyl side chain ...

The correlation between tubocurarine requirements and the electrophoretic serum protein pattern was investigated in 52 adult patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery under nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia. There was a positive correlation between the tubocurarine requirements (mg/kg) and the serum level of gamma globulin; r = +0.604, which is highly significant (P<0.001). This correlatio...

Electroadhesive surface haptic touchscreens can help augment user experiences by providing tactile effects. The electrode layout in current commercialized designs has separated electrodes for the sensing and actuating functions. During regular use, it is observed that fingerprint residue preferentially deposits on far more than electrodes, which makes underlying pattern apparent highly undesira...

osseointegration has been the concern of implantology for many years. researchers have used various ceramic coatings for this purpose; however, piezoelectric ceramics (e.g., barium titanate [bto]) are a novel fi eld of interest. in this regard, bto (batio3 , bto) coating was fabricated by electrophoretic deposition on ti6al4v medical alloy, using sol-gel-synthesized nanometer bto powder. struct...