OBJECTIVE: Endothelin (ET) has, since its discovery, increasingly been considered a key player in the pathophysiological processes of cerebral vasospasm in the course of subarachnoid hemorrhage, although it remains unclear how ET is involved. We present data that indicate an inherent capacity of human cerebral arteries to change their sensitivity to ET. METHODS: Human cerebral arteries were obtain

OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative growth hormone (GH ) measurement has earlier been tried to improve surgery for acromegaly. We calculated GH half-life after adenomectomy and evaluated the possible role of this variable in predicting the final outcome of pituitary surgery in 28 consecutive patients with acromegaly. The sensitivity, specificity and predictive values were determined in relation to the resul

We propose a sophisticated framework for high-energy hadronic collisions, wherein different QCD physics processes are interleaved in a common sequence of falling transverse-momentum values. Thereby phase-space competition is introduced between multiple parton-parton interactions and initial-state radiation. As a first step we develop new transverse-momentum-ordered showers for initial- and final-s

Antibodies to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) were determined in Chinese blood donors from the city of Wuhan by ELISA screening tests and confirmatory recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA). 281 and 222 sera were sampled under similar conditions in 1989 and 1990, respectively. The first collection of sera was sent to Sweden in lyophilized form, the second directly as fresh, unfrozen sera. A high proport

Patient-specific dosimetry in nuclear medicine is now a legal requirement in many countries throughout the EU for targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) applications. In order to achieve that goal, an increased level of accuracy in dosimetry procedures is needed. Current research in nuclear medicine dosimetry should not only aim at developing new methods to assess the delivered radiation absorbed dos

Gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors and offer a poor prognosis in patients because of their infiltrative and treatment-resistant nature. The median survival time after diagnosis is approximately 11-12 months. There is a strong need for novel treatment modalities in targeting gliomas, and recent advances use neural progenitor cells as delivery systems for different therapeutic strategi

Five patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and three control patients with lumbar disc herniation were treated with dexamethazone during 14 days. The effect on peripheral blood T-cell subsets and on the proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to pokeweed mitogen (PWM) and anti-mu antibody was analyzed. Before treatment, the proportion of CD3+ and CD4

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the outcome of urinary tract reconstruction in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifteen children with bladder exstrophy or neurogenic bladder, 4-18 years old, were followed in accordance with a predetermined program for bladder augmentation (13 pat) or continent urinary reservoir (2 pat). The follow-up time was 1.7-6.3 years, median 3.7 years. RESULTS: All were dry, though one

The linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) method, which allows multiple linear constraints, is an extension of the classical minimum variance distortionless response filter. Depending on the spatial filter length and the desired frequency grid, a direct computation of the resulting spatial beam pattern may be prohibitive. This brief exploits the rich structure of the LCMV expression to find

The use of liquid membrane-based extractions is increasingly seen as offering an alternative to conventional sample preparation procedures in analysis of chemical species in both environmental and biological media. In this article, emphasis is placed on the attractiveness of liquid membrane-based extraction techniques to a variety of analytical applications such as speciation of metal ions in biol

The formation of complexes in solutions of oppositely charged polyions has been studied by Monte Carlo simulations. The amount as well as the length, and thus, the absolute charge of one of the polyions have been varied. There is an increasing tendency to form large clusters as the excess of one kind of polyion decreases. When all polyions have the same length, this tendency reaches a maximum near

This is a study of the form and ideology of the 10th c. world chronicle of Symeon the Logothete.

Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna avhandling består av fyra separata artiklar. Den gemensamma nämnaren för alla artiklarna är att de behandlar pengar och nätverkseffekter. En vara med nätverkseffekter är en vara där nyttan av varan är beroende av hur många andra individer som använder sig av varan. Ett typexempel i litteraturen är faxmaskiner: ju fler som har en fax, desto större nytta har man av This thesis contains four separate papers in the field of monetary economics. The common basis for all the papers is that they deal with money and network effects in one way or another. Although the common basis is the same in all the articles, different approaches are used: theory, econometrics and history of economic thought. This first essay focuses on the network effect in the use of money an