We were interested in the recent report by Kelly et al1 that FLT3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) mutations, while sufficient to induce a chronic myeloproliferative disease in a murine bone marrow transplant (BMT) assay, were not sufficient to induce an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) phenotype. These data suggest that FLT3-ITDs may require additional cooperating mutations to generate the A...

Biostimulation with different nitrogen sources is often regarded as a strategy of choice in combating oil spills in marine environments. Such environments are typically depleted in nitrogen, therefore limiting the balanced microbial utilization of carbon-rich petroleum constituents. It is fundamental, yet only scarcely accounted for, to analyze the catabolic consequences of application of biost...

By the Schwinger proper-time method, the one-loop contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the W-boson is calculated at high temperature. It is shown that the value of AMM is positive and depends linearly upon temperature.

Organic and inorganic nitrogen play important roles in plant nutrition. However, how the coapplication of organic affects root growth, metabolism, soil content is still unclear. Plant shoot uptake were studied maize (Zea mays L.) through pot experiments with different treatments, including NH4+ -N (Amm), NO3− (Nit), + (Amm Nit), glutamate-N Nit Glu), glycine-N Gly). The results show that treate...

In the framework of DustBot European project, aimed at developing a new multi-robot system for urban hygiene management, we have developed a twowheeled robot: DustCart. DustCart aims at providing a solution to door-to-door garbage collection: the robot, called by a user, navigates autonomously to his/her house; collects the garbage from the user and discharges it in an apposite area. An additio...

Anesthetic management of anterior mediastinal masses (AMM) is challenging. We describe the successful anesthetic management of two patients with AMM in which dexmedetomidine was used at supra-sedative doses. Our first case was a 41-year-old man who presented with a 10 9 9 9 11 cm AMM, a pericardial effusion, compression of the right atrium, and superior vena cava syndrome. He had severe obstruc...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a highly immunotropic human herpesvirus with oncogenic potential and is involved in numerous pathologies. EBV utilizes its major envelope glycoprotein gp350 to bind to its receptor CR2/CD21 on target cells for initiating the infection. We have previously shown that EBV is able to modulate transcription and translation of a number of cytokine genes via its gp350-media...

Adult crayfish (Cambarus diogenes diogenes) exposed to 8.41 +/- 0.17 microg silver/L (19.4% as Ag+) in moderately hard freshwater under flow-through conditions for 96 h exhibited ionoregulatory disturbance, elevated metabolic ammonia (T(amm)) production and substantial silver accumulation in the gills, hemolymph, and hepatopancreas. The ionoregulatory disturbance included both a generally reduc...

PURPOSE To present a method for estimating the local arterial input function (AIF) within a dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI scan, based on the alternating minimization with model (AMM) method. MATERIALS AND METHODS This method clusters a subset of data into representative curves, which are then input to the AMM algorithm to return a parameterized AIF and pharmacokinetic parameters. Computer sim...

We have proposed a generalized Langevin-type rate-code model subjected to multiplicative noise, in order to study stationary and dynamical properties of an ensemble containing a finite number N of neurons. Calculations using the Fokker-Planck equation have shown that, owing to the multiplicative noise, our rate model yields various kinds of stationary non-Gaussian distributions such as Gamma , ...