Macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha) is a 6-8-kD, lipopolysaccharide-inducible monocyte and neutrophil chemotactic protein that may be important in acute and chronic inflammation. The present study determined the sequential production, source, and in vivo contribution of murine MIP-1 alpha in synchronized Schistosoma mansoni egg pulmonary granuloma formation. Granulomas were ex...

MafF interacting protein (MIP) is product of a candidate gene related to liver cancer development and progression. Here, we demonstrated that MIP could inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells through colony formation assays, and the inhibition ability of MIP to SMMC7721 cells was notably stronger than to HeLa cells. Using pGBKT7-MIP as bait, a human placenta cDNA library was screened using ye...

Since triangular routing in Mobile IP (MIP) is undesirable, MIP with Route Optimization (MIP-RO) and MIP with Location Registers (MIP-LR), all use binding updates that are sent directly to a Correspondent Host. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based mobility management also uses direct binding updates between a Mobile Host and a Correspondent Host. However, this makes these protocols (except t...

In order to improve the routing efficiency and reduce handoff latency, we have proposed an enhancement of Mobile IP (MIP) called MIP with Home Agent Handover (HH-MIP) to enjoy most of the advantages of Route Optimization MIP (ROMIP) but with only a small increase of signaling overhead. In HH-MIP, the concept of Temporary Home Agent (THA) was proposed and the mobile host (MH) registers the new C...

Despite the success of constraint programming (CP) for scheduling, the much wider penetration of mixed integer programming (MIP) technology into business applications means that many practical scheduling problems are being addressed with MIP, at least as an initial approach. Furthermore, there has been impressive and well-documented improvements in the power of generic MIP solvers over the past...

In this paper, we consider the use of multiple mobile software agents to perform different tasks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To this regard, determining the number of mobile agents in the WSN remains an open issue in solving multi-agent itinerary planning (MIP) problem. We propose a novel scheme entitled MST-MIP based on minimum spanning tree, where each branch stemmed from the sink cor...

A number of different types of final programming exams used or considered at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, are identified and analyzed. Based on this analysis, a new type of programming exam is introduced called a Mini Project Programming (MIP) exam. MIP is a group-based programming assignment that is intended as a medium-scale programming effort followed by a final or...

BACKGROUND Two major ways of macrophage (MΦ) activation can occur in radiation-induced pulmonary injury (RPI): classical and alternative MΦ activation, which play important roles in the pathogenesis of RPI. MΦ can produce chemokine MΦ inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α), while MIP-1α can recruit MΦ. The difference in the chemotactic ability of MIP-1α toward distinct activated MΦ is unclear. We spe...