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through contaminated fわod or water (1,2). It can also be transmitted person-to-person as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) in homosexual men (315). We encountered an outbreak of acute HAY infection in HIV1 -infected homosexual men livlng ln the Tokyo Metropolitan area from August 1998 through September 1999 (6). We here report the rate of subclinical HAY infection in adult HIV1 -infected cas...

CDw108, also known as the John-Milton-Hagen human blood group Ag, is an 80-kDa glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored membrane glycoprotein that is preferentially expressed on activated lymphocytes and E. The molecular characteristics and biological function of the CDw108 were not clarified previously. In this manuscript, we identify the cDNA clone containing the entire coding sequence of ...

We analyzed the clinical efficacy and toxicity of concurrent therapy as a first line modality for malignant glioma patients. From 1998 to 2004, 39 patients, 22 with glioblastoma (GM), nine with anaplastic astrocytoma (AA), 7 with anaplastic oligodendroglioma (AO) and 1 with anaplastic oligodendro-astrocytoma (AOA) were enrolled in this study. The median age was 46.2 years (range 8-67). Both ext...

The proceedings of a recent meeting on alopecia areata (AA) (Bertolini et al., 2012) summarized work using the surgically induced C3H/HeJ mouse model for AA (McElwee et al., 1998), in which investigators found enlarged hearts in affected mice, suggesting an association between AA and cardiac findings. However, the heart lesions described are a well known strain specific disease, not limited to ...

Myeloperoxidase, an antimicrobial enzyme, produces oxidative free radicals. Rarely found in normal brain tissue, myeloperoxidase has been detected in microglia associated with Alzheimer's disease plaques. The authors examined a G-463A polymorphism in the promoter region of the myeloperoxidase gene (MPO) to determine the relation of MPO variants to cognitive decline over 4 years in a cohort of a...

Recent years have seen considerable interest in lightweight cryptography. One particular consequence is a renewed study of meet-inthe-middle attacks, which aim to exploit the relatively simple key schedules often encountered in lightweight ciphers. In this paper we propose a new technique to extend the number of rounds covered by a meet-inthe-middle attack, called a match box. Furthermore, we d...

Improved survival in aplastic anemia (AA) has shown a high incidence of late clonal marrow disorders. To investigate whether accelerated senescence of hematopoietic stem cells might underlie the pathophysiology of myelodysplasia (MDS) or paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) occurring as a late complication of AA, we studied mean telomere length (TRF) in peripheral blood leukocytes from 79 ...

Traditional lightning protection practices were standardized many years prior to the recent proliferation of modern electrical and electronic equipment installations on building rooftops. This paper presents an isolated down-conductor solution that combines the advantages of the IEC 623051 series or various other national standards regarding isolated and non-isolated lightning protection method...