Asthmatics are known to react to inhaled hyperosmolar solution. Therefore, the effect of hyperosmolar salt solutions on tight junctions of the airway epithelium was investigated by electron microscopy. Rat trachea was perfused with different concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) and then fixed from the luminal side with glutaraldehyde to which the electron dense tracer lanthanum chloride had...

1 Andrei Lobov, Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Production Engineering, P.O.Box 589, Tampere, 33101, Finland, [email protected] 2 Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Production Engineering, P.O.Box 589, Tampere, 33101, Finland, [email protected] 3 Reijo Tuokko, Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Production Engineering, P.O.Box 58...

In this paper, we are going to describe our technique to discover the Internet Address Preexes (APs). This technique is based on distancee. By distancee we mean latency or hop count. Different techniques have been previously used to mapp the Internet. Most of those techniques depend on hop-limited probes, which increase the network load around the hosts that are doing the mapping. Our technique...

Between 1978 and 1986, 589 patients with primary lung cancer were seen at the National Tuberculosis Centre, Kuala Lumpur. Eighty-three per cent were male and most were aged from 40 to 80 years. The patients were predominantly Chinese and 87% were current smokers or ex-smokers. The cell type was known in 538 patients (91%). There was a larger proportion of adenocarcinoma in the women than the ma...

The role of bats as potential sources of transmission to humans or as maintenance hosts of leptospires is poorly understood. We quantified the prevalence of leptospiral colonization in bats in the Peruvian Amazon in the vicinity of Iquitos, an area of high biologic diversity. Of 589 analyzed bats, culture (3 of 589) and molecular evidence (20 of 589) of leptospiral colonization was found in the...

BACKGROUND The Spanish Germ Cell Group is composed of 60 centres. Our challenge was to define a surveillance protocol that would be safe and suitable regardless of population size or geographic coverage. METHODS From January 1994 to January 2004, 589 patients with stage I non-seminomatous germ cell tumours entered a risk-adapted surveillance protocol after orchiectomy. Patients with vascular ...