Bovine heart submitochondrial particles (SMP) were exposed to continuous fluxes of hydroxyl radical (.OH) alone, superoxide anion radical (O2-) alone, or mixtures of .OH and O2-, by gamma radiolysis in the presence of 100% N2O (.OH exposure), 100% O2 + formate (O2- exposure), or 100% O2 alone (.OH + O2- exposure). Hydrogen peroxide effects were studied by addition of pure H2O2. NADH dehydrogena...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) reduces fat deposition in the body, but the mechanism of action is not clear. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of CLA on body fat metabolism. Since milk fat is the best natural source of dietary CLA, intervention of non-fat milk constituents on CLA treatment was also investigated. METHODS Diets containing CLA (1%...

In this paper we present and evaluate protocols (SMP and SMP-MH) for synchronized end-to-end multicast in real-time packet cellular networks. Our protocols extend current delay jitter control mechanisms to achieve synchronized real-time packet delivery to mobile hosts in multiple cells. We show that for a multicast session using SMP and SMP-MH: (1) the end-to-end delay bounds of each packet to ...

The toxicity of leachates from landfill sites in the remediated lands at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, was evaluated in four tests, encompassing three biological levels. These included: the submitochondrial particle (SMP) test, Microtox, and the sea urchin fertilisation and larval development tests. The aims were to determine the level of leachate toxicity and make recommendations on tests...

This paper reports the design of a runtime library for solving irregularly structured problems on clusters of symmetric multiprocessors (SMP clusters). Our design algorithms exploit a hybrid methodology which maps directly to the underlying hierarical memory system in SMP clusters, by combining two styles of programming methodolo-gies { threads (shared memory programming) within a SMP node and ...

Soluble microbial products (SMP) have been long time considered the major cause of membrane fouling when membrane bioreactors (MBR) are used for wastewater treatment. As a result, the formation and degradation of SMP have been incorporated in the conventional ASM models for a better prediction of MBR performance. This paper studies the impact of SMP modelling when optimizing the start-up of an ...

We reported in the previous paper that highly purified cell-wall skeleton of M. bovis BCG (SMP-105) eliminated lymph node metastases and primary implanted tumor, presumably by generating tumor immunity, employing guinea pigs. In this paper, we investigated the immune reactions to elucidate the mechanisms of antitumor activity. Twenty-four hours after intradermal injection, inflammatory cells we...

This study aimed to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and survival outcomes of the subclassification of pT2 gastric cancers according to the depth of tumor involvement. We retrospectively collected clinicopathological data and survival outcomes for pT2 gastric cancer patients from 2006 to 2011. Patients were classified into the superficial muscularis propria (sMP) and deep mus...