A family Ck+1 of local moves on knot diagrams for each positive integer k, is defined in [1] where it is also shown that two knots are Ck+1equivalent iff all of their Vassiliev-Gusarov invariants of degree k agree. Every move Ck+1 splits the space K of knots into equivalence classes and defines a metric on each equivalence class. For two Ck+1-equivalent knots K, J with dCk+1 (K, J) = 1 we give ...

A 65-year-old man in whom an inferior vena cava filter had been implanted for deep vein thrombosis was admitted to the cardiology department due to appetite loss and lumbago. Laboratory data showed increased total creatinine kinase (CK, 796 U/L, Picture 1, left) and CK-MB (1,213 U/ L), which exceeded the total CK value. Electrophoresis showed, in addition to an increase in CK-BB, a peak that mi...

Phagocytosis requires locally coordinated cytoskeletal rearrangements driven by actin polymerization and myosin motor activity. How this actomyosin dynamics is dependent upon systems that provide access to ATP at phagosome microdomains has not been determined. We analyzed the role of brain-type creatine kinase (CK-B), an enzyme involved in high-energy phosphoryl transfer. We demonstrate that en...