A highly sensitive flow injection-chemiluminescence detection (FI-CL) method based on pyrogallol (Pg) chemiluminescent reagent (CLreagent) oxidized by periodate for the determination of propranolol is presented. The presented method is an indirect CL detection method based on the CL emission generated during the oxidation of Pg with the excess of periodate that remains after oxidation of propra...

We propose systematic design methods for realization of a given LTI compensator with complex poles using a modulated–demodulated control framework. Applicability of the proposed realization methods is established through simulations performed on an undamped resonant plant compensated by a low gain controller to obtain better noise rejection performance. It is demonstrated how a modulated–demodu...

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) I or endotoxins elicit a variety of host responses, the combination of which result in the deposition of fibrin in capillaries and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). These various host responses to endotoxins have recently been summarized (1) and include: (a) aggregation of platelets and release of platelet factor 3; (b) activation of Hageman facto...

This paper presents an efficient indirect fractional frequency synthesizer architecture based on the time delay digital tanlock loop. The indirect type frequency synthesis systems incorporate a low complexity high performance adaptation mechanism that enables them to remain in a locked state following the division process. The performance of the proposed fractional-N synthesizer under various i...

We present a case of diabetic macular edema in a pregnant patient treated with a single intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonomide. Initial presentation and serial examinations after treatment included visual acuity, slit-lamp examination, indirect ophthalmoscopy, and optical coherence tomography. Resolution of visual acuity and macular edema were present six weeks after injection and ...

BACKGROUND Epidural steroid injection is the most frequently performed pain procedure. This study of epidural steroid "control" injections aimed to determine whether epidural nonsteroid injections constitute a treatment or true placebo in comparison with nonepidural injections for back and neck pain treatment. METHODS This systematic review with direct and indirect meta-analyses used PubMed a...

A portal venous injection of allogeneic donor cells is known to prolong the survival of subsequently transplanted allografts. In this study, we investigated the role of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) in immunosuppressive effects induced by a portal injection of allogeneic cells on T cells with indirect allospecificity. To eliminate the direct CD4+ T cell response, C57BL/6 (B6) MHC c...

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) I or endotoxins elicit a variety of host responses, the combination of which result in the deposition of fibrin in capillaries and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). These various host responses to endotoxins have recently been summarized (1) and include: (a) aggregation of platelets and release of platelet factor 3; (b) activation of Hageman facto...

The progress of the research work of the author and his colleagues on the field of CL-emission generated by pyrogallol oxidation and further application for the direct determination of periodate and indirect or direct determination of other compounds through flow-injection manifold/CL-detection set up is described. The instrumentation used for these studies was a simple flow-injection manifold ...