BACKGROUND The periimplant bone level has been used as one of the criteria to assess the success of dental implants. It has been documented that the bone supporting two-piece implants undergoes resorption first following the second-stage surgery and later on further to abutment connection and delivery of the final prosthesis. OBJECTIVE The aim of this multicentric randomized clinical trial wa...

Quantitatively analyzing the (population) growth of a microorganism is a crucial task in characterizing fast-evolving microbes and in studying the effect of antibiotic agents. Conventionally, the growth of a microbial batch culture is followed by direct or indirect cell enumerating measurements on manually extracted culture aliquots at different times of incubation. Although routinely practiced...

Cell-suspension cultures of Lithospermum erythrorhizon Sieb. et Zucc. (Boraginaceae) grown in the dark produce a large amount of red naphthoquinone pigments that are shikonin derivatives when transferred to the production medium M9 (Fujita et al., 1981) from the Linsmaier Skoog liquid medium (Linsmaier and Skoog, 1965). It is known that shikonin biosynthesis is completely inhibited by irradiati...

where f(6) is a continuous function of 6. This radiation condition is more explicit than the usual Sommerfeld condition, and, by its very nature, rules out surface waves as they are oscillating and nondecaying along the boundary. It was found to be equally convenient to state and prove uniqueness for all N and \m9^ ±iK. The explicit far field behavior mentioned above is not required; rather we ...

EXPRESSION OF CD33 ANTIGEN ON NORMAL HUMAN ACTIVATED T LYMPHOCYTES To the Editor. granulocytes in vivo. However, it has not been detected on eryCD33 antigen (glycoprotein M, 67,000). detected by the monoWe successfully detected the expressions of CD33 antigen on norclonal antibodies (MoAbs) MY-9 and Leu-M9, is in highest conmal human peripheral CD4+ T and CD8' T lymphocytes that were centratio...

Brane-induced gravity in five dimensions (Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati model) exhibits modification of gravity at ultra-large distances, r ≫ rc = M 2 P l/M 3 where M is the five-dimensional gravity scale. This makes the model potentially interesting for explaining the observed acceleration of the Universe. We argue, however, that it has an intrinsic intermediate energy scale (M9/M4 P l) 1/5. At high...