The in vivo importance of class I MHC regulation of the Tc response to a natural pathogenic agent of high virulence was studied on the basis of our previous demonstration of a major difference in the capacity to generate a Sendai virus-specific Tc response between C57BL/6 (B6, H-2b) mice and H-2Kb mutant B6.C-H-2bm1 (bm 1) mice. These two mouse strains differ from each other only in three amino...

Abstract Wind‐driven mixing and Ekman pumping driven by slow‐moving tropical cyclones (TCs) can bring nutrients to the euphotic zone, promoting phytoplankton blooms (TC‐PBs) observable satellite remote sensing. We examine an exceptional ( z ‐score = 18–48) TC‐PB induced category‐1 Cyclone Oma near South Pacific island of Vanuatu in February 2019, most extreme event observed record surface Chlor...

Previous studies have revealed that herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) corneal stromal lesions do not develop in the absence of a cell-mediated immune (CMI) response to HSV-1 antigens. HSV-1 glycoprotein C (gC) has been shown to play an important role in the induction of the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response to HSV-1 infections at anatomical sites other than the eye. Here we report that a ...

We consider systems which exhibit typical critical dependence of the specific heat: ∆c ∝ (TC − T) −γ (T < TC); ∆c ∝ (T − TC) −γ ′ (T > TC) where γ,γ ′ are critical exponents (γ = α for ∆c = ∆cp,N , γ = α for ∆c = ∆cV,N), as well as, the case when ∆c ∝ (ln | TC − T |) a (a = 1 3 , uniaxial ferroelectrics; a = 1, liquid He 4). Starting from the critical behaviour of the specific heat we find the ...

Thymic carcinoma (TC) is often very difficult to distinguish from type B3 thymoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma (L-SCC) involving the anterior mediastinum. The present study evaluated the usefulness of immunohistochemical markers including c-Kit, CD5, glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1), claudin-1 (CLDN-1), thymoproteasome β5t, p53 and Ki-67 (MIB-1) and thymic cortical environmental marker cells,...

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), characterized by the deposition of amyloid aggregates in the walls of cerebral vasculature, is a major factor in intracerebral hemorrhage and vascular cognitive impairment and is also associated closely with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We previously reported (99m)Tc-hydroxamamide ((99m)Tc-Ham) complexes with a bivalent amyloid ligand showing high binding affinit...

The aim of this study was the investigation of absorbed dose to the kidneys, spleen, and liver during technetium-99 m ethylene dicysteine and technetium-99 m diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid ((99m)Tc-EC and (99m)Tc-DTPA) kidney scan. Patients who had been prepared for the kidney scan, were divided into two groups (Groups 1 and 2). The first group (Group 1) and the second group (Group 2) recei...