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Oxytocin and cholecystokinin secretion in women with colectomy

Background: Cholecystokinin (CCK) concentrations in plasma have been shown to be significantly higher in colectomised subjects compared to healthy controls. This has been ascribed to reduced inhibition of CCK release from colon. In an earlier study CCK in all but one woman who was colectomised, induced release of oxytocin, a peptide present throughout the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The aim of th

Harvesting Wild Boar a study of prey choice by hunters during the Mesolithic in South Scandinavia by analysis of age and sex structures in faunal remains

The hunting of wild boar during the Mesolithic was studied by analysis of age and sex distributions in faunal remains from four settlement situated in Scania, Southern Sweden. The results show that the harvest of wild boar varied between different settlements, Piglets dominate the age distribution in the faunal remains of teh sites of Ringsjöholm and Tågerup, which indicate a hunting of wild boar

Biological and molecular evidence for existence of lymphoid-primed multipotent progenitors

Studies from our and other laboratories have over the last 2 years implicated the existence of multipotent progenitors (MPPs) with combined granulocyte-macrophage, B cell, and T cell potential, but little or no megakaryocyte-erythroid (MkE) potential in the adult bone marrow Lineage (-)SCA-1 +KIT+ (LSK) compartment of multipotent stem and progenitor cells. The evidence for the existence of LSKCD34

Cystatin C in the anterior segment of rat and mouse eyes.

Purpose: Cystatin C is a mammalian cysteine protease inhibitor. This study describes the localization of cystatin C in the anterior segment of normal rat and mouse eyes. Cysteine proteases play an important role in protein degradation (e.g. of photoreceptor outer segments in the retinal pigment epithelium) and the balance between these proteases and their specific inhibitors is therefore of great

Wave splitting in the time domain for a radially symmetric geometry

A decomposition of the field of the wave equation in three dimensions is suggested. This wave splitting decomposes the field into two components such that in free space simple propagation properties are obtained. The inhomogeneous region is assumed to have a phase velocity variation that varies only in the radial coordinate r from the origin. The suggested wave splitting is a generalization of the

On the M-function and Borg-Marchenko theorems for vector-valued Sturm-Liouville equations

We will consider a vector-valued Sturm-Liouville equation of the form R[U]:=-(PU')(')+QU=lambdaWU, xis an element of[0,b), with P-1, W, Qis an element ofL(loc)(1)([0,b))(mxm) being Hermitian and under some additional conditions on P-1 and W. We give an elementary deduction of the leading order term asymptotics for the Titchmarsh-Weyl M-function corresponding to this equation. In the special case o

Custom DSP Design of a GSM Speech Coder

The GSM speech coder for digital mobile telephones has been designed on a custom DSP using an environment for development of arbitrary processor architectures. A netlist of the speech coder has been generated from a high level description in a presented design environment. Improvement of the performance both by modifying the high level description and by hand optimization of the microcode is discu

Biochemical Studies of Semenogelins with Emphasis on Zinc-Binding Properties

Semenogelins I and II (SgI and SgII) are homologous and rapidly evolving proteins that have a repetitive primary structure and are synthesized mainly in the seminal vesicles. Upon ejaculation, a gelatinous coagulum is formed when the semenogelin-rich secretion from the seminal vesicles is mixed with the prostate secretion, which contains high concentrations of zinc(II) and proteases. These proteas

Estimating LAI in deciduous forest stands

The leaf area index (LAI), was estimated in deciduous forests of southern Sweden using different estimation techniques. The effective LAI (L-e) was estimated optically by measurements with the gap fraction instrument LAI-2000 and corrections for the aggregation of leaves were achieved by using the TRAC (Tracing Radiation and Architecture of Canopies) instrument. Two methods for correcting the cont

Mind in Motion: The utilization of noise in the cognitive process

Popular Abstract in Swedish "Tanken i rörelse" handlar dels om hur tanken sätts i rörelse av brus och dels om hur detta brus kan användas av hjärnan för att fånga upp visuell rörelse. Ofta betraktas brus som en störning, men detta arbete försöker visa att brus kan ha en viktig funktion i tankeprocessen. Arbetet vill visa hur våra tankar växer fram ur det bakgrundsbrus som alltid finns i hjärnan i The brain is not silent. Even in the absence of stimuli are the neurons activated every now and then in what is called "spontaneous" or "background activity" which provides a noisy background to the operation of the brain. This work shows how this noise can be utilized in the cognitive process. That is, rather than being treated as a nuisance, noise is given a functional role in the brain´s activi

Toll-like Receptors in Allergic Rhinitis

Popular Abstract in Swedish Allergisk rinit är en immunförmedlad sjukdom som huvudsakligen drabbar nässlemhinnan. Vid kontakt med allergen, t.ex. pollen, uppkommer typiska symptom såsom klåda, nysningar, rinnsnuva och nästäppa. Immunförsvaret brukar traditionellt indelas i två samverkande delar, den medfödda och den förvärvade delen. Den medfödda delen aktiveras snabbt vid en första kontakt med miAllergic rhinitis is an inflammatory disorder with the characteristic symptoms itching, sneezing, secretion and blockage upon allergen contact. In addition to the local inflammation in the nose, there is a systemic component that influences peripheral blood, bone marrow and lungs. The immune system is conventionally divided into innate and acquired (adaptive) immunity. The former is important in

Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors

This article highlights the importance of communication and collaboration with units outside the library to make self-archiving attractive to authors. The monthly electronic publication, Lund Virtual Medical Journal (LVMJ), published by the Department of Strategic Communication of the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, started as a response to the need to increase the visibility of ongoing re