The defending troops are the white blood cells called lymphocytes, born in the bone marrow, billeted in the lymph nodes and spleen, and on exercise in the blood and lymph systems. A body can muster some 200,000,000 cells, making the immune system comparable in mass to the liver or ...
We distinguished between direct and indirect effects (through mass) on sex differences in climbing speed by means of path analysis. Thus, we provide empirical evidence that by being smaller, males are able to climb faster than females. However, we found only a barely significant negative ...
The preoperative diagnoses of 221 of the 225 lesions (98.2%) were confirmed, and the indications for liver resection in 156 of the 160 patients (97.5%) were correct. The respective accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 99.6%, 100%, 98.9%, 99.3%...
/MS spectra. This means that their fragmentation patterns may not provide enough information to distinguish them. Finally, differences in extraction conditions and instrument settings can lead to variations in the obtained MS/MS spectra. For example, the intensity of precursor ions used for ...
A single measurement of BMI at study baseline has been convincingly associated with the risk of 13 cancer types in previous studies, of which 10 (colorectum, liver, gallbladder and biliary tract, post-menopausal breast, corpus uteri, ovary, kidney, brain and CNS, thyroid, and multiple myeloma...
The method is computationally efficient and can be implemented such that only one spectrum is needed in memory at any time. We use this technique to reveal histologically significant regions within MALDI images of diseased human liver. Segmentation results achieved following a reduction in the ...
16 Inflammation can be ascribed to several means, including chronic infection or conditions that result in enhanced proinflammatory signaling, such as obesity. However, many questions remain regarding the impact of heightened baseline inflammation attributed to obesity on cancer risk, such as the effect...
Preparation of Pure Hepatocytes and Reticuloendothelial Cells in High Yield From a Single Rat Liver by Means of Percoll Centrifugation and Selective Adherence A rapid method for mass isolation of functionally intact hepatocytes and reticuloendothelial cells from a single rat liver is described. The te...
One-dimensional gel separation of proteins followed by in-gel digestion and LC/MS–MS analysis (GeLC/MS–MS)(38)as well as off-gel separation of peptides following digestion provides means to increase the resolution and coverage ofcomplex proteinsamples. GeLC/MS–MS is potentially useful if ...
We examine the gammap photoproduction and the hadronic gammagamma total cross sections by means of a QCD eikonal model with a dynamical infrared mass scale. In this model, where the dynamical gluon mass is the natural regulator for the tree level gluon-gluon scattering, the gammap and gammagam...