PURPOSE To demonstrate the specific binding of autoantibodies present in the sera of patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) to human beta4 integrin present in the normal human conjunctiva (NHC) and to study the role of OCP autoantibodies and antibody to human beta4 integrin in the pathogenesis of subepithelial lesion formation in OCP. METHODS Indirect immunofluorescence assay and i...

Fulvic acids extracted from a typical rice-production region near Taihu Lake of China were fractionated into three fractions including F4.8, F7.0 and F11.0 (eluted by pH 4.8 buffer, pH 7.0 buffer and pH 11.0 buffer, respectively). Sorption of fulvic acid (FA) fractions onto kaolinite was studied by batch adsorption experiments, and characterizations of kaolinite before and after adsorption were...

The cooling rate of soot particles after laser induced incandescence (LII) is thought to provide an estimate of the size of nanoparticles (NPs) in the engine exhaust. It is shown that cooling rate is not applicable to NPs, and instead is only a measure of the size of micron-sized particles. The problem is that the conservation of absorbed laser photon energy in NPs is subject to quantum electro...

INTRODUCTION This review is related to the mechanism of development of radiation induced pneumonitis, its pathological, clinical and radiological features and therapy. The team treating cancer patients consists of radiation oncologists and oncologists, as well as general practitioners, pulmologists and radiologists for monitoring effects of therapy. Therefore, a different number of specialists ...

Comparison of the cell surface characteristics of the parental strain-specific TA3-St ascites cell (I) of the strain A mouse and the more allotransplantable TA3-St/ticol ascites cell (II), immunoselected for reduced absorption of anti-H-2a antibody from Cell I, revealed the following. Cell II, like Cell I, possessed no detectable epiglycanin at its surface, as neither cell absorbed more than 0....

Computational phantoms are commonly used in internal radiation dosimetry to assess the amount and distribution pattern of energy deposited in various parts of the human body from different internal radiation sources. Radiation dose assessments are commonly performed on predetermined reference computational phantoms while the argument for individualized patient-specific radiation dosimetry exist...

Small pieces of guinea-pig skin were exposed to a uniform field of microwaves at X-band (8,730 MHz). Measurements showed that 26%of the incident energy was reflected, 34% was absorbed, and the remaining 40% was transmitted. Absorbed energy was converted to heat, causing a rise in the temperature of the skin. After exposure to microwaves the skin was maintained in vitro on a nutrienmedium. Uptak...