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Retargeting adenoviral vectors to improve gene transfer into tumors
Gene targeting to tumors using adenoviral (Ad) vectors holds great potential for cancer imaging and therapy, but the limited efficacy of current methods used to improve delivery to target tissues and reduce un...
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The outcome of Direct Current Cardioversion (DCC) for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) in a district general hospital in Ireland
Direct current cardioversion (DCC) is a method to control persistent AF, to facilitate a reduction in stroke risk. Although this is a frequently performed procedure, there are no available published data regar...
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Spontaneous life-threatening perirenal haemorrhage: an uncommon urological emergency
Spontaneous perirenal haemorrhage is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition and requires urgent management. Diagnosis is based on clinical assessment combined with radiological investigations, as re...
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Wireless LANs — Present and Future
Wireless LAN technology has grown rapidly in importance over the last two years, because it fills a real user need at a cost the user can afford. This paper firstly provides a brief description of the main tec...
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Open AccessPurified malignant mammary epithelial cells maintain hormone responsiveness in culture
Currently, the therapy for breast cancer is determined by immunohistochemical staining of the primary tumour for oestrogen receptor alpha (ERα). However, a proportion of ERα-positive patients fail to respond to t...
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Optimising gene repair strategies in cell culture
Gene repair, the precise modification of the genome, offers a number of advantages over replacement gene therapy. In practice, gene targeting strategies are limited by the inefficiency of homologous recombinat...
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Commercial applications of performance monitoring
As outlined in the foregoing chapters of this section of the handbook, performance monitoring is normally undertaken to ensure that an item of equipment or machinery is operating correctly, to a required stand...
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Immunotoxins against the vasculature of human Hodgkin’s lymphoma in SCID mice
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Screening of 19 Monoclonal Antibodies for their Potential as Ricin A-Chain Immunotoxins Against Myeloid Leukemia Cell Lines
Second-generation ricin A-chain immunotoxins have better stability, higher purity, and home to the liver much less rapidly than their predecessors [1, 2]. They have been demonstrated in vitro and in vivo to ha...
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Coolant system health monitoring and fault diagnosis via health parameters and fault dictionary
A new methodology is described for the condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of machine tool coolant systems. The steady state characteristics of the coolant system pump outlet pressure, pump motor temperat...