INTRODUCTION Single-site laparoscopic colectomy (SLC) is a promising minimally invasive and safe treatment for colorectal cancer. Improvements of the working instruments and procedures for SLC have helped to overcome challenges regarding the difficulty of operation, supporting the gradual acceptance of this technique. In contrast, narrow working space of the abdominal cavity sometimes prevents ...

Secondary lymphoid-tissue chemokine, SLC, also known as exodus-2 and 6Ckine, is a novel CC chemokine with selectivity for T lymphocytes and preferential expression in lymphoid tissues. We have studied its production, receptor usage and biological activities. High levels of SLC mRNA were detected in lymph nodes, the gastrointestinal tract and several gland tissues, but no expression was found by...

Abstract Sublevel shrinkage (SLSh) is an underground mining method similar to sublevel caving (SLC) but with continuous backfilling from the top. It features a top-down sequence production drifts orientated in longitudinal or transverse way orebody. Fan drilling and blasting done drifts, where ore then drawn. While drawing, backfill introduced at top flows down by gravity, which supports walls ...

Let $ { mathcal{R}} L$ be the ring of real-valued continuous functions on a frame $L$ as the pointfree  version of $C(X)$, the ring of all real-valued continuous functions on a topological space $X$. Since $C_c(X)$ is the largest subring of $C(X)$ whose elements have countable image, this motivates us to present the pointfree  version of $C_c(X).$The main aim of this paper is to present t...

BACKGROUND A dominant T helper type 1 (Th1) immune response is thought to be involved in Crohn's disease (CD). SLC/CCL21 and ELC/CCL19, chemokines that regulate T cell homing and promote recirculating T and dendritic cell (DC) interactions, help control antigen specific T cell responses. AIMS To investigate the Th1 response and SLC and ELC in CD pathogenesis. METHODS Surgically resected int...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to assess the efficiency of using TK SLC-L (Salubris, Inc.) for the primary isolation of mycobacteria from clinical samples by comparing it to the MGIT detection system (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Instrument Systems). Although TK SLC, a biphasic medium, has been evaluated previously, this is the first study to evaluate TK SLC-L, a liquid medium. MET...

The use of receptor antagonists for chemokines is an alternative approach to blocking chemokine actions and has the potential to provide novel therapeutics. We determined the receptor antagonist properties of murine N-terminally truncated secondary lymphoid tissue chemokine (SLC)/6Ckine/CCR ligand 21 analogs and evaluated the preventive effects of SLC antagonists on chronic graft-vs-host diseas...

M. C. Ross, L. Hendrickson, T. Himel, E. Miller Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford, California 94309 Abstract A data acquisition method has been developed at the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) that provides accurate beam parameter information using sub-tolerance xcitation and synchronized detection. This is being applied to several SLC sub-systems to provide high speed feedback on beam par...

PURPOSE The chemokine CC-ligand 21/secondary lymphoid tissue chemokine (CCL21/SLC) regulates the homing of naïve T cells and dendritic cells that express CC-chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7) from distant sites to lymphoid tissue such as lymph nodes. We hypothesized that CCL21/SLC regulates the migration of CCR7-bearing melanoma cells from a primary lesion to regional tumor-draining lymph nodes. EXP...