Background There is still a poor understanding of the effects of pneumoperitoneum with insufflation of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) on malignant cells, and pneumoperitoneum has a negative impact on cardiopulmonary responses. A novel saline-filled laparoscopic surgery (SAFLS) is proposed, and the technical feasibility of performing saline-filled laparoscopic partial hepatectomy (LPH) was evaluated i...

Precise analysis of the kinetics of protein/enzyme turnover in vivo has been hampered by the need to obtain multiple tissue samples at different times during the course of a continuous tracer infusion. We hypothesized that the problem could be overcome by using an overlapping (i.e., staggered) infusion of multiple stable amino acid isotopomers, which would take the place of multiple tissue samp...

This Prohormone Theory was simultaneously proposed in 1967 by two independent groups using two different approaches and two experimental models. Donald Steiner, in elegant pulse-chase experiments, proposed the existence of proinsulin when he observed that a human insulinoma was producing higher MW forms of immunoreactive insulin, subsequently transformed into insulin-like material (1). Simultan...

Determining a prescription's function is one of the challenging problems in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In past decades, TCM has been widely researched through various methods in computer science, but none concentrates on the prediction method for a new prescription's function. In this study, two methods are presented concerning this issue. The first method is based on a novel supervise...

of papers 33 3. Abstract of papers Paper I. Immune response of Atlantic salmon to recombinant flagellin Many viral vaccines used in aquaculture are unable to stimulate an appropriate level of immunity to withstand infection. By targeting specific components of the immune system it may be possible to trigger stronger, more effective responses to antigens. Flagellin has the ability to stimulate b...

Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cDNA was cloned to investigate its structure, evolution, and expression in different tissues. POMC is an important gene in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, the main mediator of the stress response. POMC gene was isolated from a pituitary cDNA library and nucleotide sequence was determined. POMC cDNA is composed of 1164 nuc...

(l" Table 1, l" Fig. 1 ± 3) with lymphoid pseudotumoral hyperplasia (LPH), two with an atypical localization (diffuse dis− ease). The lesion diameters varied from 7 to 30 mm. In our patients, the treatment was: con− servative (patient 1), surgery (patient 2), corticosteroids (patient 3), and a milk− free diet (patient 4). Complete remission of lesions and/or clinical improvement were seen in al...

Prinsip kerja industri pembangkit listrik tenaga uap secara umum adalah pembakaran batu bara pada boiler untuk memanaskan air dan mengubah menjadi panas (superheated steam). Uap tersebut digunakan menggerakkan turbin menghasilkan dari kumparan medan magnet di generator. Heater salah satu alat penukar kalor yang banyak berfungsi 
 sebagai pemanas umpan sebelum masuk ke boiler. Pada Jawa Tim...