The objective of the study was to compare embryo development rates after transfer of oocytes collected 22 or 33 h after hCG injection into recipients inseminated within the uterus or the oviduct. Oocytes were collected at approximately 22 or 33 h after hCG injections and incubated for approximately 16 or 1.5 h, respectively, before transfer. Intrauterine inseminations using 1 x 10(9) progressiv...

Carlos Alonso-Alvarez*, Sophie Bertrand, Godefroy Devevey, Josiane Prost, Bruno Faivre and Gabriele Sorci Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, xquai St. Bernard, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France UMR CNRS 5561 BioGéo Sciences, Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Blvd Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France UPRES Lipides Nutrition, Université...

5. Brooks PM. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for autoexclude patients with large-joint prostheses in view of immune diseases. J Rheumatol 1997;24(suppl. 48):19–22. the potential risk of prosthetic infection. 6. Berthelot JM, Bataille R, Maugars Y, Prost A. Rheumatoid Cyclophosphamide, when combined with total body arthritis as a bone marrow disorder. Semin Arthritis Rheum irradiation, ...

– We study the time-dependent height fluctuations of an active membrane containing energy-dissipating pumps that drive the membrane out of equilibrium. Unlike previous investigations based on models that neglect either curvature couplings or random fluctuations in pump activities, our formulation explores two new models that take both of these effects into account. In the first model, the magni...

– In an elegant paper, D. Nelson suggested a method to produce tetravalent colloids based on a tetrahedral configuration created on the surface of a spherical particle. It emerges from a two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal placed on a sphere due to the presence of four 1/2 disclinations, i.e., topological defects in the orientational order [1]. In this paper we show that such a tetrahedral c...

In this paper, we present a novel method for medial axis approximation based on Constrained Centroidal Voronoi Diagram of discrete data (image, volume). The proposed approach is based on the shape boundary subsampling by a clustering approach which generates a Voronoi Diagram well suited for Medial Axis extraction. The resulting Voronoi Diagram is further filtered so as to capture the correct t...

The TSNLP project is funded by the CEC and started on 1 December 1993 with a duration of 23 months. We would like to thank our partners in the project: Dominique Estival, Kirsten Falkedal and Sabine Lehmann at ISSCO, Geneva, Eva Dauphin and Veronika Lux and Sylvie Regnier-Prost at Aerospatiale, Paris, and Judith Klein, Klaus Netter and Stephan Oepen at DFKI in Saarbr ucken, Germany. Lorna Balk...

Planar bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) are currently employed to construct many bio-inspired material systems and structures. In order to characterize the pressure effects on the equilibrium configurations of these biological membranes, a novel continuum model is proposed. The BLM is assumed to be a two-layer smectic A liquid crystal. The mean orientation of the amphiphilic molecules comprising ...