Acoustophoresis in microfluidic structures has primarily been reported in silicon microfabricated devices. This paper demonstrates, for the first time, acoustophoresis performed in isotropically etched glass chips providing a performance that matches that of the corresponding silicon microdevices. The resonance mode characteristics of the glass chip were equal to those of the silicon chip at its f

Relationships between 24-h urinary excretion and body burden of 137Cs obtained in a south-Swedish population, together with data from the literature, were applied to urine samples collected in 1994-95 from adult subjects living in Russia, in order to estimate their average body burden of 137Cs. Estimates obtained through creatinine normalisation of the 137Cs content in the Russian urine were a fac

An attempt has been made to study the reaction between a uranium atom and a nitrogen molecule theoretically using multiconfigurational wave functions. The C-2v part of the reaction surface has been computed for several electronic states of various spin multiplicities. The system proceeds from a neutral uranium atom in its (5f)(3)(6d)(7s)(2), 5 L ground state to the linear molecule NUN, which has a

Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility is diagnosed using an in vitro contracture test (IVCT). In families in which the mutation is known, genetic tests are also available. The inheritance pattern is regarded as autosomal dominant, which predicts equal proportions of men and women affected. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there were sex differences in the diagnostic outcome of the

Objective: In this study, our aim was to investigate how different immunohistochemical techniques may influence the result of BCL6 positivity and categorization in germinal center (GC) and non-GC derived diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), as it has been proposed that classification of DLBCL according to cell-of-origin by immunohistochemistry may be performed as a routine procedure in the diagn

The effect of temperature and enzyme concentration on the enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-pretreated willow was investigated to obtain the optimal hydrolysis conditions. The willow was pretreated at 220°C for 10 min according to the results of earlier optimization studies of the steam-pretreatment conditions for high glucose yields. The concentrations of two commercial enzymes, Celluclast 2L and Nov

Percutaneous implants have been associated with numerous problems. However, by using skin-penetrating, bone-anchored titanium implants, developed by Professor Branemark at the Department of Anatomy, University of Goteborg, good long-term results have been observed. These implants have been in clinical use for anchorage of bone-conducting hearing aids and facial prostheses since 1977 and 1979, resp

Since the 1960's, subcutaneous mastectomy (SCM) and reconstruction with an implant has been used to treat recurrent benign breast tumors and in situ breast carcinomas. It has also been used as a prophylactic operation in women with a high risk of developing breast carcinoma and to achieve symmetry following breast reconstruction. Reports on surgical complications have been discordant. Recent prosp

Epithelial cells are characterized by their polarized organization based on an apical membrane that is separated from the basolateral membrane domain by tight junctions. Maintenance of this morphology is guaranteed by highly specific sorting machinery that separates lipids and proteins into different carrier populations for the apical or basolateral cell surface. Lipid-raft-independent apical carr

Hatching success is a potentially important fitness component for avian species. Previous studies of hatching success in natural populations have primarily focused on effects of inbreeding but a general understanding of variation in hatching success is lacking. We analyse data on hatching success in a population of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus in Lake Kvismaren in south central Sw

On January 1st, 2006, the Swedish legislation on obtaining DNA reference samples from Suspects and the recording of DNA profiles in databases was changed. As a result the number of samples analysed at the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science (SKL) increased from about 4500 in 2005 to more than 25,000 in 2006. To meet this challenge, SKL launched a flew analysis system to create an unbro

A method for vital staining of fungal mycelium with fluorescein diacetate (FDA) is described. In experiments with pure cultures, good correlation was obtained between relative staining efficiency, growth rate, and respiration. FDA thus appears to be a true vital stain, in that it stains only metabolically active mycelia. In fresh soil suspensions stained with FDA, brightly fluorescent hyphae and

Monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) is a thyroid hormone transporter, the gene of which is located on the X chromosome. We tested whether mutations in MCT8 cause severe psychomotor retardation and high serum triiodothyronine (T,) concentrations in five unrelated young boys. The coding sequence of MCT8 was analysed by PCR and direct sequencing of its six exons. In two patients, gene deletions of 2

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to delineate electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns in postmenopausal women with hypercholesterolemia and to assess the possible influence of female sex hormones. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 72 postmenopausal women with moderately elevated total cholesterol levels constituted the case group, of which 48 came from a clinical trial and 24 from a cohort study. Some 236 wom

We make a thorough comparison between different schemes of merging fixed-order tree-level matrix element generators with parton-shower models. We use the most basic benchmark of the O(alpha_S) correction to e+e- -> jets, where the simple kinematics allows us to study in detail the transition between the matrix-element and parton-shower regions. We find that the CKKW-based schemes give a reasonably