Anti-leukotriene therapy represents a new principle in asthma treatment. As elite athletes can have asthma, this double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised cross-over study investigated the effect of 10 mg oral montelukast, a specific and potent cysteinyl leukotriene receptor antagonist, on physiological responses to submaximal and maximal aerobic exercise at -15 degrees C in 14 non-asthmatic hi

As an extension of previous studies on modeling and identification of nonlinear dynamic load models, this letter describes the influence of the normalization in dynamic reactive load models. Using measured data from normal operation, it is shown that the reactive power level, which has previously used as normalization factor is inappropriate. If instead apparent power level is used, the variabilit

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In later years the development of pavement design has gone towards more and more analytically based methods. Future design will probably be based on incremental deterioration models. The objective is to evaluate different types of rut depth prediction models for an incremental design process. Two different models were chosen for further studies: One model that calculates the plastic strain throu

The experience with radioimmunotherapy in B-cell lymphomas using the rapidly internalizing antibody, anti-CD22 (LL2), is limited. In this study we investigated the efficacy and toxicity of 131I-labelled-LL2 for radioimmunotherapy in patients with B-cell lymphomas that failed one or two cytostatic regimens. Eleven patients were treated with one or repeated cycles of 131I-anti-CD22 antibody, 1330 MB

Platelet activating factor (PAF) has been reported to produce a variety of airway effects including epithelial damage and increased airway-lung absorption of hydrophilic tracers. The present study examines effects of PAF on the guinea-pig tracheobronchial mucosa in vivo. Vehicle with and without PAF (4.0 and 8.0 nmol) was superfused onto the tracheobronchial mucosa. The levels of 125I-albumin, pre

Studien analyserar möjligheterna att reducera energianvändning och emissioner från den svenska transportsektorn fram till år 2015. Energianvändning och emissioner beräknas utifrån officiella prognoser om transportarbetets utveckling samt uppskattningar av specifik energianvändning och emissionsfaktorer för olika teknologi- och bränsleval och transportslag. Emissionerna jämförs med såväl officiell

The new paramyxean Paramyxoides nephtys gen. n., sp. n. is described based on cytological characters. The organism reproduces by endogenous budding, and sporogony is the only sequence of reproduction observed. A primary cell with narrow haplosporosomes gives rise to two or four secondary cells (sporonts), each yielding four tetracellular spores in which the cells are situated one within the other.

Rapport från en internationell konferens i Montreal 11-13 oktober 1998 "The First International Conference on New Information Technologies for Decision Making in Civil Engineering". Författaren (som är bibliotekarie) var den enda representanten från Sverige bland ca 280 forskare från 26 länder, och berättar om sitt eget bidrag: "CER: A Handy Tool for the Civil Engineer", men tar även hjälp av 5 ol

The incidence of Diabetes Mellitus increases globally in epidemic proportions. Type 2 Diabetes is the most prevalent form of Diabetes, comprising 90% of the patients. In Type 2 Diabetes, two processes contribute to the development of the disease: insufficient insulin secretion from the pancreatic ?-cell and insulin resistance of the target organs. This leads to loss of control of blood glucose lev

A new reduced-complexity Schnorr-Euchner decoding algorithm is proposed in this letter for uncoded multi-input multi-output systems, with q-QAM (q = 4, 16....) modulation. Furthermore, a Fano-like metric bias is introduced to the algorithm from the perspective of sequential decoding, as well as an early termination technique. Simulation results show that these modifications reduce the algorithm co

Repeated exposures to both microbial and innocuous Ags in vivo have been reported to both eliminate and tolerize T cells after their initial activation and expansion. The remaining tolerant T cells have been shown to suppress the response of naive T cells in vitro. This feature is reminiscent of natural CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells. However, it is not known whether the regulatory function of in vi

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This dissertation addresses the question of what the function of morphological case is in Icelandic. The working hypotheses of this book is that morphological case is a multifunctional category. Firstly, new verbs in Icelandic were collected and examined to cast light on the productivity of the morphological cases, revealing that not only are the nominative and accusative productive in Icelandic b

Background: Flat and depressed colorectal tumours are common in Japan but are very rare or non-existent in Western countries. Aims: To study the occurrence of flat colorectal tumours in a southern Swedish population. Methods: In this prospective study, 371 consecutive European patients were examined by high resolution video colonoscopy combined with chromoendoscopy. The nature of the lesions was