Anterior Chamber-Associated Immune Deviation (ACAID) induced by an intracameral injection of antigen generates antigen-specific regulatory splenic T cells that suppress specifically cell-mediated immunity specific for the injected antigen. Circulating F4/80(+) cells recovered from mice receiving an intracameral injection of antigen are thought to be ocular in origin and induce the development o...

Pyrene-intercalated layered compounds, [{Ru2(O2CCF3)4}2(TCNQR(x))]·2(pyrene) (TCNQR(x) = 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane derivatives; R(x) = H4 and F4), were synthesized. Pyrene prohibits intralayer electron transfer of [Ru2(II,II)] → TCNQR(x), even in the compound with R(x) = F4, from occurring.

Let F4 be the root system associated with the 24-cell, and let M(F4) be the simple linear dependence matroid corresponding to this root system. We determine the automorphism group of this matroid and compare it to the Coxeter group W for the root system. We find non-geometric automorphisms that preserve the matroid but not the root system.

A suspension of cortical tissue fragments prepared by collagenase digestion of renal cortex obtained from fed and chronically acidotic (NH4Cl) rats was separated into four bands on a Percoll density gradient. By microscopic examination, vital staining with trypan blue, and histologic staining technique (periodic acid-Schiff) the F4 band was shown to contain only (greater than 98%) proximal tubu...

AIMS Experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) model mirrors important mechanisms of inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy (iDCM). In EAM, inflammatory CD133(+) progenitors are a major cellular source of cardiac myofibroblasts in the post-inflammatory myocardium. We hypothesized that exogenous delivery of macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) can stimulate macrophage lineage differentiatio...

This report gives pseudocode for an implementation the F5 algorithm, noting errors found both in Faugère's seminal 2002 paper and Stegers' 2006 undergraduate thesis. It also outlines a relatively easy optimization that, in our experience, produces a substiantial improvement to the algorithm's e ciency.