AIM To treat orbital lymphangioma with an intralesional injection of OK-432 (group A Streptococcus pyogenes of human origin). METHOD A 14 year old boy had a right orbital cystic lymphangioma. The visual acuity in the eye was 20/28. In an initial treatment, 0.02 mg of OK-432, was injected into the tumour after aspiration of the fluid contents, but no effect was seen. The second treatment was p...

BACKGROUND Our previous study showed that the combination of irinotecan (CPT-11) and OK-432 had an additive antitumor effect. The purpose of this study was to analyze the mechanism by which this combined treatment had an effect on immunity. MATERIALS AND METHODS To investigate the immune effects of murine splenocytes stimulated by SN-38 (the active form of CPT-11) and OK-432, endogenous inter...

BACKGROUND Lymphangiomas are congenital malformations of the lymphatic system with characteristic dilated endothelium-lined spaces. It is vulnerability to infection or chemical irritants cause spontaneous reduction in size and in some cases complete resolution. Intralesional injection of OK-432 or Picibanil (lyophilized incubation mixture of Group A Streptococcus pyogenes of human origin) is sl...

1 INRA, UR 629, Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, F-84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France; [email protected] (J.-L.D.); [email protected] (E.R.); [email protected] (V.P.) 2 ONF, Département RDI-Pôle Nancy 11 rue de l’île de Corse 54000 Nancy, France; [email protected] * Correspondence; [email protected]; Tel.: +3...

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8561...

125 (2001). Affiliations • Fabio Puglisi Clinica di Oncologia Medica e Unità Senologica, Policlinico Universitario, 33100 Udine, Italy Tel.: +39 432 559 304 Fax: +39 432 559 304 [email protected] • Alessandro Minisini Clinica di Oncologia Medica e Unità Senologica, Policlinico Universitario, 33100 Udine, Italy [email protected] • Andrea Piga Clinica di Oncologia Medica e ...

Given the importance of lexical frequency for psycholinguistic research and the lack of comprehensive frequency data for sign languages, we collected subjective estimates of lexical frequency for 432 signs in American Sign Language (ASL). Our participants were 59 deaf signers who first began to acquire ASL at ages ranging from birth to 14 years old and who had a minimum of 10 years of experienc...

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The authors’ goals in this article are to (a) describe a new task for the assessment of shifting attention between different affective stimuli, The Children’s Attentional Shifting Task (CAST); (b) present the theoretical background for the development of the CAST; and (c) report initial information on the developmental appropriateness and validity of the CAST. The task was tested using a sample...