Eosinophils (EOS) may play an important role in the pathophysiology of bronchial asthma because they can release oxygen free radicals and several basic proteins which are cytotoxic to bronchial epithelium. We have studied the response of EOS isolated from the blood of atopic subjects with symptoms of asthma (AS, n = 7) or rhinitis (AR, n = 4) or without symptoms (AA, n = 5) and of subjects with...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS It is well known that the interaction between platelets (PLTs), endothelial cells, and leukocytes contributes to thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome. The aim of this study was to investigate the significance of PLTs and eosinophils (EOS) in coronary arterial thrombi. METHODS PLT count, mean PLT volume, PLT mass, EOS count, EOS percentage, and troponin I lev...

This Note investigates the approximation of phase change in compressible fluids with complex equation of state (EOS). Assuming a local and instantaneous equilibrium with respect to phasic pressures, temperatures and chemical potentials when both phases are present leads to the classical definition of an equilibrium EOS for the two-phase medium. Unfortunately, there is no explicit expression of ...

  Background: This study has aimed to measure the patient dose in entire spine radiography by EOS system in comparison with the digital radiography. Methods: EOS stereo-radiography was used for frontal and lateral view spine imaging in 41 patients in a prospective analytical study. A calibrated dose area product (DAP) meter was used for calibration of the DAP in EOS system. The accuracy and pr...

A new isothermal equation of state (EOS) for solids is derived by starting from the theory of lattice potential and using an analytical function for the volume dependence of the short-range force constant. A critical analysis of the isothermal EOSs: Murnaghan EOS, Vinet EOS, and the new EOS derived here, is presented by investigating the pressure-volume data for rare gas solids, metals and mine...

In this paper, we proposed Evolutionary Organizational Search (EOS), an optimization method for the organizational control of multi-agent systems (MASs) based on genetic programming (GP). EOS adds to the existing armory a metaheuristic extension, which is capable of efficient search and less vulnerable to stalling at local optima than greedy methods due to its stochastic nature. EOS employs a f...

Association of the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) with the pathogenesis of allergic asthma is well recognized and its role as a chemoattractant for eosinophils (Eos) in vitro and in vivo has been previously demonstrated. Here we have examined the regulation of 5-HT-induced human and murine Eos trafficking and migration at a cellular and molecular level. Eos from allergic donors and bone marr...

We use a connection between relativistic hydrodynamics and scalar field theory to generate analytic solutions describing non-stationary non-homogeneous flows of the relativistic perfect fluid with barotropic equation of state (EOS). For linear EOS p = κε we obtain selfsimilar solutions in case of plane, cylindrical and spherical symmetries. Besides, in case of extremely stiff EOS (p = ε) we obt...

BACKGROUND Human globin gene expression is precisely regulated by a complicated network of transcription factors and chromatin modifying activities during development and erythropoiesis. Eos (Ikaros family zinc finger 4, IKZF4), a member of the zinc finger transcription factor Ikaros family, plays a pivotal role as a repressor of gene expression. The aim of this study was to examine the role of...