The granulomatous response in murine Schistosomiasis mansoni does not switch to Th1 in IL-4-deficient C57BL/6 mice

IL-4 plays an important role in polarizing inflammation toward a Th2 response. It remains uncertain, however, whether IL-4 also serves to prevent expression of Th1 inflammation. Therefore, using a genetically pure C57BL/6 IL-4-deficient mouse, we studied the role of IL-4 in regulating the production of IFN-gamma and Th1 inflammation in the granulomas of mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni. In contrast to normal animals, IL-4 mutant mice generated smaller liver granulomas that contained fewer eosinophils and no mast cells. Collagenase-dispersed granuloma cells were analyzed by flow cytometry and cultured in vitro to measure cytokine and Ig production. Compared with control granuloma cells, IL-4-/- cells secreted only small quantities of IL-5 and IL-10. Also, there was impaired expression of the IL-4-dependent molecules IgE and IgG1 as well as B cell surface class II and CD23. Yet the granulomas of IL-4 -/- animals produced little IFN-gamma, IgG2a, or other molecules associated with Th1 inflammation even after Ag or anti-CD3 stimulation. Splenocytes from IL-4 -/- animals stimulated with schistosome Ag also failed to produce a Th1 response. Our data show that most aspects of the Th2 response in murine schistosomiasis are highly dependent on IL-4 production. But in the absence of IL-4, neither the natural local granulomatous response to schistosome ova nor the systemic response to soluble egg Ag switches to the type 1 phenotype. Thus the production of IL-4 early in the inflammatory response is not the only factor preventing Th1 expression in inflammation.     

溶胶-凝胶法制备(Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉及表征

采用溶胶－凝胶法成功地合成了（Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉，并利用FTIR技术对凝胶的形成过程及350℃，1．5h煅烧获得的粉体材料进行了表征。实验以TG－DSC分析作为拟定煅烧温度的依据，以XRD作为煅烧产物的分析手段，最佳煅烧温度为600℃，所合成的（Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉的平均晶粒尺寸约为21nm，属钙钛矿型立方顺电相结构。     

EWSD中的ADSL.lite和xDSL

在简单介绍了ADSL技术的基础上,具体介绍了如何在EWSDU交换机中创速和设置ADSL用户功能和xDSL功能.     

某尾矿库周围环境中污染物生态转移研究

对我国某尾矿库周围环境中放射性核素U、^226Ra、Th及非放污染物Mn^2 、Cd、Cr、Pb在农作物和水生生物等介质中的浓集情况进行了现场研究，给出了相应的污染物生态学转移系数Bv和Bp值。     

浅谈空气中机动车尾气对人体的危害

近几年来,随着我国经济建设和城市化进程的快速发展,运输行业作为我国国民经济的支柱产业,得到了迅猛的发展.     

干粉灭火剂浅论

前言 :干粉灭火剂 (Dry fire extinguishing powder、Drychemical、Fire extinguishent)始于十九世纪末 ,二十世纪三十年代美国 Ansul公司首先开发出以碳酸氢钠为基料的干粉灭火剂 ,是最早应用于消防科技领域的干粉灭火剂。干粉灭火剂由一种或多种具有灭火能力的细微无机粉末组成 ,粉末的粒径大小及其分布对灭火效果有很大的影响 ,按照干粉灭火范围可划分为三类 :ABC类 :磷酸一铵 ;BC类 :碳酸氢钠、碳酸氢钾、氯化钾、氯化钠、硫酸钾、硫酸铵、monnex;D类 :氯化钠、碳酸氢钠、石墨灭火剂。干粉灭火剂与水、泡沫、二氧化碳等相比 ,在灭火…     

Diagnostic Data Compression Techniques for Embedded Memories with Built-In Self-Test

A system-on-chip (SOC) usually consists of many memory cores with different sizes and functionality, and they typically represent a significant portion of the SOC and therefore dominate its yield. Diagnostics for yield enhancement of the memory cores thus is a very important issue. In this paper we present two data compression techniques that can be used to speed up the transmission of diagnostic data from the embedded RAM built-in self-test (BIST) circuit that has diagnostic support to the external tester. The proposed syndrome-accumulation approach compresses the faulty-cell address and March syndrome to about 28% of the original size on average under the March-17N diagnostic test algorithm. The key component of the compressor is a novel syndrome-accumulation circuit, which can be realized by a content-addressable memory. Experimental results show that the area overhead is about 0.9% for a 1Mb SRAM with 164 faults. A tree-based compression technique for word-oriented memories is also presented. By using a simplified Huffman coding scheme and partitioning each 256-bit Hamming syndrome into fixed-size symbols, the average compression ratio (size of original data to that of compressed data) is about 10, assuming 16-bit symbols. Also, the additional hardware to implement the tree-based compressor is very small. The proposed compression techniques effectively reduce the memory diagnosis time as well as the tester storage requirement.