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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterisation of Transient Actions Induced by Spectators on Sport Stadia
In a wake of Hillsborough disaster of 1989, all stadia hosting major sport championships in the UK were converted from terraced to all-seated. Driven by spectators’ demands for improving the quality of their e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Successful Administration of the NO Synthase Inhibitor 546C88 as a Delayed Continuous Infusion in a Baboon Model of Septic Shock
Nitric oxide (NO) as both a vasodilator and under certain circumstances a cyto-toxic molecule is suggested as one of the critical mediators of severe sepsis and septic shock. Whether NO is really a central mol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
QSO Absorption by Nearby Galaxies
We investigate the obscuration of the distant universe by absorption in foreground spiral galaxies. We have used the most conservative and most radical views highlighted by the recent NATO conference on the op...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of TNF in Gram-Negative Sepsis in Baboon
During sepsis TNF message is expressed and the protein is released both locally and into plasma. Teleologically such cytokine response must be beneficial to the host. However, from a certain threshold level of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Trauma and Cytokines
Trauma still constitutes the most frequent cause of death in the first four decades of life and ranks third over all age brackets (Baker et al. 1980, Baue 1990, Chaudry et al. 1990, National Safety Council 198...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Precise Localization of a Gene Responsible for Ataxia-Telangiectasia on Chromosome 11q
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a recessive disorder of childhood characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, occulocutaneous telangiectasias, and a high incidence of cancer and infection. Other distinctive...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Normal Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster
There are strong selection effects in favour of selecting galaxies of certain surface brightnesses (Disney & Phillipps 1983; Davies 1990), and against finding galaxies of other surface brightnesses. Both low a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bacterial Translocation in a Baboon Model of Hypovolemic-Traumatic Shock
Bacterial translocation secondary to gut damage caused by traumatic shock is a source of posttraumatic sepsis. In several series, only one third of multiorgan failure patients with clinical manifestations of s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Eosinophils in Myocarditis
The association of a persistent blood eosinophilia with the development of endomyocardial disease (eosinophilic endomyocardial disease) is now well described, and it has been suggested that eosinophils themsel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Transposable Neomycin Phosphotransferases
Transposable genetic elements are discrete DNA segments with the capacity to move between independent DNA replicons within the cell. The recent discoveries that certain plasmid-borne genes, which confer resist...