Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a progressive, insidious, and often fatal lung alloreaction that can occur following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) or allogeneic lung transplantation. Current estimates in the literature suggest that approximately 2% to 3% of all allogeneic HSCT recipients and 6% of patients who develop chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGV...

Long-term survival of lung transplant recipients is limited by the advent of obliterative bronchiolitis and irreversible airways obstruction, e.g. bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). This study investigated whether inflammatory cells and their activation markers were increased in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial biopsies (TBB) from patients with BOS. Levels of antioxidants i...

PURPOSES To determine the diagnostic capabilities of dynamic high-resolution electron-beam (HREB) CT scanning for diagnosing bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) in lung transplant recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS At the time of follow-up examinations after lung transplantation, 52 patients were examined by dynamic HREB CT scan. Visual signs of small airway disease were assessed and compa...

The mechanisms of allergic sensitization to milk are still elusive. The major allergen Bos d 5 belongs to the lipocalin-family and thus is able to transport numerous ligands. In this study we investigated its ability to bind to iron-siderophore complexes and tested the immune-modulatory properties of Bos d 5 in either forms. Structural and in silico docking analysis of Bos d 5 revealed that Bos...

This paper describes an auto-tagging system presented to MIREX 2011 that represents a “Bag of Systems” (BoS) representation of music. Similar to the Bag of Words representation for text documents, the BoS representation uses a dictionary of musical codewords, where each codeword is a generative model that captures timbral and temporal characteristics of music. Songs are represented as a BoS his...

The prevalence of tick-harboring domestic animals, tick density, and the species of ticks were studied throughout the year 2000, in Muang Samut Prakan, Bang Phli and Phra Pradaeng districts of Samut Prakan Province. The animals examined were Canis lupus familiaris (450), Bos indicus (cross-bred) (189), Bos taurus (30), Bubalus bubalis (171) and Sus scrofa domestica (450). The total number of co...

In this short paper we report on the rst steps of a case study on the usage and adaptability of business objects (BOs). This toy-world scenario is the rst stage of a study for a german automobile company to evaluate business objects especially from the reuse perspective. Therefore we are transfering a well known example-a time-planner-from UML to CDL, realize it on the basis of IBMs SanFrancisc...

WINNING ABSTRACT: Long term survival after lung transplantation depends on the development and severity of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between baseline FEV1 and transplant procedure type, on the development and progression of BOS grade 0p to 3. All patients receiving a cadaveric lung transplant 1992-2004 were included in ...