We describe the anatomical localization of three distinct dendritic cell (DC) subsets in the murine Peyer's patch (PP) and explore the role of chemokines in their recruitment. By two-color in situ immunofluorescence, CD11b(+) myeloid DCs were determined to be present in the subepithelial dome (SED) region, whereas CD8alpha(+) lymphoid DCs are present in the T cell-rich interfollicular region (I...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that inhibit gene expression by cleaving or hindering the translation of target mRNAs. We used microarray-based comparative transcriptome analysis to identify changes in miRNA expression and function between a human cell line, RSa, which is highly sensitive to HuIFN-β-mediated inhibition of cell viabili...

The Instrumented Flux Return (IFR)[1] is one of the five subdetectors of the BaBar[2] experiment on the PEP II accelerator at SLAC. The IFR consists of 774 Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors, covering an area of about 2,000 m2 and equipped with 3,000 Front-end Electronic Cards (FEC) reading about 50,000 channels (readout strips). The first aim of a B-factory experiment is to run continuous...

OBJECTIVE To review the disease course in patients with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) and the factors that determine outcome DESIGN Retrospective, analytical SETTING Pediatric Nephrology Clinic at referral center in North India PARTICIPANTS/PATIENTS All patients with SSNS evaluated between 1990 and 2005 INTERVENTION: None MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Disease course, in patients w...

Angiography-derived physiological assessment of coronary lesions has emerged as an alternative to wire-based aiming at less-invasiveness and shorter procedural time well cost effectiveness in physiology-guided decision making. However, current available image-derived physiology software have limitations including the requirement multiple projections are consuming. The ReVEAL iFR (Radiographic i...

The first IEEE-IFR joint forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation took place on April 2

The forward scattering from an arbitrarily shaped cylinder is characterized by its induced field ratio (IFR). This paper describes how a focused beam system is used to determine the scattering characteristics of an arbitrary-shaped cylinder. The fields of the transmitting and receiving antennas, as well as the scattered field from the cylinder, are described by equivalent fundamental Gaussian b...

Soft tissue techniques, including Integrative Myofascial Release (IFR) can be more effective if the area of treatment can be determined by functional testing. The patient's source of pain may not necessarily be located at the area of complaint and functional testing helps in pinpointing the source. Post-treatment functional testing will provide feedback to both the patient and the doctor as to ...

High dimensionality has been a major problem for gene array-based cancer classification. Feature Selection (FS) is ordinarily used as a useful technique in order to reduce the dimension of the dataset. For that to get advantages from both methods of feature selection, Individual Feature Ranking (IFR) and Feature Subset Selection (FSS) are combined which is a hybrid approach. Information Gain fr...