Guidelines for treatment of autoimmune neuromuscular transmission disorders G. O. Skeie, S. Apostolski, A. Evoli, N. E. Gilhus, I. Illa, L. Harms, D. Hilton-Jones, A. Melms, J. Verschuuren and H. W. Horge Department of Neurology, University of Bergen, Norway; Institute of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; Neuroscience Department, Catholic University, ...

Methods have been developed to isolate human platelet membrane fragments from plasma and serum. Rabbit antibody produced against the human platelet membrane glycoprotein complex. lib/Illa. was utilized in an immunoelectrophoretic assay to evaluate the amount of this antigen in various microparticle preparations. The serum concentration of platelet microparticles was more than tenfold greater th...

In highly purified human polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) preparations containing less than 0.1% contaminating monocytes, significant amounts of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and small amounts of IL-la, IL-la, and tumor necrosis factoralpha (TNF-a) were produced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. Contrary to published reports, IL-6 production could not be detected. IL-10 inhibited the produc...

The term IL-1 has been used to describe a family of monocyte derived polypeptides that have immunomodulatory and proinflammatory biological properties (1, 2). While most studies have focused on IL-1 activity that is found in monocyte/macrophage culture supernatants, early studies showed that high amounts of activity could also be recovered from cell lysates. These studies suggested that IL-1 ma...

We prepared murine monoclonal antibodies to porcine platelet membrane glycoprotein (GP) lb and GP llb/Illa for further study of the porcine hemostatic mechanism. One monoclonal antibody, designated PP3-4C. blocked Ristocetin-induced platelet agglutination and caused 80% inhibition of Ristocetin-induced ‘25l-von Willebrand factor (vWF) binding to porcine platelets at a concentration of 1 2 gsg l...

The term IL-1 has been used to describe a family of monocyte derived polypeptides that have immunomodulatory and proinflammatory biological properties (1, 2). While most studies have focused on IL-1 activity that is found in monocyte/macrophage culture supernatants, early studies showed that high amounts of activity could also be recovered from cell lysates. These studies suggested that IL-1 ma...

objective: the main goal of this study was to evaluate stress distribution of endodonti-cally treated maxillary central incisors restored with glass fiber posts, composite resin cores, and crowns with different ferrule designs. materials and methods: four three-dimensional models of a maxillary central incisor were modeled in solidworks 2006. tooth with no ferrule, tooth with a 2 mm circumferen...