Biomedical subjects

W J Frederick

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PubMed2001

Carbon and char residue yields from rapid pyrolysis of kraft black liquor.

The yields of char residue, fixed carbon, and inorganic carbonate were measured for oxidized black liquor char residues produced in a laboratory laminar entrained-flow reactor (LEFR) at heating rates of 4000-13,000 degrees C/s. The char residue yields at the end of devolatilization thus obtained decreased nearly linearly with temperature, from 75% at 700 degrees C to 58% at 1100 degrees C. There were explainable differences in the char residue yields from the liquor used in this study and those used in other studies. Char residue yields seemed to depend mainly on the temperature to which the particles or droplets were exposed and were not very sensitive to heating rate. Fixed carbon yields behaved similarly to those of the char residue. The fixed carbon remaining at the end of devolatilization decreased from 67% at 700 degrees C to about 45% at 1100 degrees C. The carbonate content in black liquor changed very little before and after devolatilization.

Carbon↗

PubMed1997

Data-adaptive algorithms for calling alleles in repeat polymorphisms.

Data-adaptive algorithms are presented for separating overlapping signatures of heterozygotic allele pairs in electrophoresis data. Application is demonstrated for human microsatellite CA-repeat polymorphisms in LiCor 4000 and ABI 373 data. The algorithms allow overlapping alleles to be called correctly in almost every case where a trained observer could do so, and provide a fast automated objective alternative to human reading of the gels. The algorithm also supplies an indication of confidence level which can be used to flag marginal cases for verification by eye, or as input to later stages of statistical analysis.

Algorithms↗

PubMed1984

Importance of cytotoxic lymphocytes during cytomegalovirus infection in renal transplant recipients.

Thirty renal transplant recipients were studied prospectively to evaluate the relationship of cytomegalovirus-specific cytotoxic lymphocyte responses to clinical outcome during cytomegalovirus infection. Cytomegalovirus infection developed in 20 patients; of these 20, 14 had cytomegalovirus-specific cytotoxic lymphocyte responses whereas six did not. Clinical findings (fever, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, or elevations in serum transaminase levels) were significantly more frequent among patients without responses than among patients with responses (p less than 0.001), and prolonged viremia and complications of infection including superinfection, interstitial pneumonitis, pancreatitis, and death occurred exclusively among patients without responses. Acute allograft dysfunction during infection was experienced by four patients without responses but by only one patient with response (p = 0.02), indicating that the virus-specific cytotoxic response did not result in a renal immunopathologic condition, and may have protected against virus-induced injury to the graft. In seven of nine patients with responses who shed virus, cytotoxic responses occurred within one week of detection of activation of virus shedding. Absence of cytotoxic responses correlated with prior high-dose, intravenous methylprednisolone treatment, and apparently resulted from inhibition of cytotoxic T cell precursors. Immunosuppressive treatment to inhibit graft rejection should be minimized, and methods should be developed that do not inhibit cytomegalovirus-specific cytotoxic T cell responses.

Antibodies, Viral↗