The Th1 response elicited in mice infected with Leishmania major has been used as a model to characterize cellular immune defects associated with L. amazonensis infection. However, it is not known if the immune response associated with the infection by virulent L. major parasites can promote resistance to a subsequent L. amazonensis infection. Our data demonstrate that C3HeB/FeJ mice infected s...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether antiorthostatic suspension of C3HeB/FeJ mice for a period of 11 days affected macrophage and spleen cell function. We found that antiorthostatic suspension did not alter macrophage secretion of prostaglandin E2, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-1. Antiorthostatic suspension also did not affect macrophage-mediated contact-dependent c...

This paper contains several variants of Berry-Ess een-type inequalities for ultraspher-ical expansions of probability measures on 0; ]. Similar to the classical results on IR , proofs will be based in some cases on ultraspherical analogues of Fej er-kernels. The inequalities in this paper in particular lead to relations between the spherical-cap-distance of probability measures on unit spheres ...

A transplantable primary liver tumor 1st observed in a 2-month-old female Swiss-Webst er mouse is described. Morpho logically, it was poorly differentiated. It was easily converted into an ascitic form. The tumor grew rapidly and uniformly with out regression in 100% of Swiss-Webster mice after the 2nd transplant generation. Several characteristics of this tumor distinguish it from other transp...

UNLABELLED Latent tuberculosis infection affects one third of the world's population and can reactivate (relapse) decades later. However, current technologies, dependent on postmortem analyses, cannot follow the temporal evolution of disease. METHODS C3HeB/FeJ mice, which develop necrotic and hypoxic tuberculosis lesions, were aerosol-infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PET and CT were ...

The role played by macrophages in two effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the immune system of the mouse-substitution for helper T cells and induction of B-cell mitosis-has been investigated. C3H/HeJ mice are unresponsive and do not produce (as other strains do) antibody to 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP) conjugated with autologous mouse erythrocytes (MRBC-TNP) in the presence of LPS. We found th...

J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 1998; 9: 596–607. [6] van der Velden HMW, Ausma J, Rook MB et al. Gap junctional remodeling in relation to stabilization of atrial fibrillation in the goat. Cardiovasc Res 2000; 46: 476–86. [7] Simon AM, Goodenough DA, Paul DL. Mice lacking connexin40 have cardiac conduction abnormalities characteristic of atrioventricular block and bundle branch block. Curr Biol 199...

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