To determine fluid extravasation in the splanchnic vascular bed during anaphylactic hypotension, the mesenteric lymph flow (Q(lym)) was measured in anesthetized rats sensitized with ovalbumin, along with the systemic arterial pressure (P(sa)) and portal venous pressure (P(pv)). When the antigen was injected into the sensitized rats (n = 10), P(sa) decreased from 125 ± 4 to 37 ± 2 mmHg at 10 min...

The collagenolytic responses of normal rat skin fibroblasts (NRS-F) and rat mammary MTLn3 tumor-derived fibroblasts (Ln3-F) were examined following exposure to rat macrophage (M phi-CM)- and lymphocyte (LYM-CM)-conditioned culture medium and/or tumor cell-conditioned medium. Alveolar, intratumoral, and peritoneal macrophages were prepared from mammary adenocarcinoma-bearing rats, as were the pe...

In a number of neuronal models of learning, signaling by the neurotransmitter nitric oxide (NO), synthesized by the enzyme neuronal NO synthase (nNOS), is essential for the formation of long-term memory (LTM). Using the molluscan model system Lymnaea, we investigate here whether LTM formation is associated with specific changes in the activity of members of the NOS gene family: Lym-nNOS1, Lym-n...

Radioimmunotherapy using monoclonal antibodies against tumor-associated antigens has been particularly promising in the treatment of radiosensitive malignancies such as lymphoma. 67Cu has excellent physical and biochemical properties for radioimmunotherapy. 67Cu-2IT-BAT-Lym-1 has been used in preclinical and clinical trials, where an exceptionally long residence time of 67Cu on tumor was observ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of (99m)Tc-2-Methoxy-Isobutyl-Isonitrile Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (MIBI-SPECT) for assessing anterior mediastinal mass, and distinguishing the grade of malignancy of thymic epithelial tumors to offer guidance for decision making. METHODS From January 2006 to November 2009, 31 consecutive patients with an anterior mediastinal mass at CT we...

counted for 2.5% of all non-Hodgkin’s lym phoma (NHL) in south ern Tai wan ac cord ing to our pre vi ous study. There have been only three larger se ries on PBL from Tai wan. Huang et al re ported seven cases in 1987, with em pha ses on the pro tean clin i cal and ra dio log i cal man i fes ta tions. There were five dif fuse histiocytic lym pho mas and one case each of dif Chi nese Med i cal Jo...

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of somatic cell counts (SCC), differential SCC (macrophage (MAC), lymphocyte (LYM) and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN)), number and stage lactation on milk composition in camel and cow milk. Camel milk appeared to contain significantly (P

In a canonical way we establish an AZ{identity (see [9]) and its consequences, the LYM{inequality and the Sperner{property, for the Boolean interval lattice. Further, the Bollobas{inequality for the Boolean interval lattice turns out to be just the LYM{ inequality for the Boolean lattice. We also present an Intersection Theorem for this lattice. Perhaps more surprising is that by our approach t...