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Another method of Pgp regulation has been demonstrated by adrenomedullin (AM) (89). It is produced by endothelial cells in the brain and acts as a vasodilator in the cerebral circulation. It was shown that AM antisense decreased the transendo-thelial electrical resistance across endothelial monolayers. Treatment of these cells with AM activated Pgp, suggesting that AM acts as an autocrine mediator in the regulation of the properties of BBB endothelial cells. In addition, AM incubation decreased BBB permeability for sodium fluorescein (376 Da) but not for Evan s blue albumin (67 kDa). An interesting observation was that it also attenuated fluid-phase endocytosis. 

Following a lead given a century earlier by the physician Edward Jenner who observed that people who milked cows diseased with cow-pox seldom acquired smallpox and used this information to devise a smallpox vaccine, Pasteur looked for sources of dead bacteria that could be used to trigger immunity and protect against live bacteria. He used such methods successfully to protect sheep from anthrax, then he deliberately injected the 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a mad dog, with attenuated fluid from rabid dogs and saved his life. 

Fig. 27.2. Axial CT scan of the liver that demonstrates a low attenuation fluid collection 1 month following radiofrequency ablation (black arrows)...

Fibrillated Fibers. Instead of extmding cellulose acetate into a continuous fiber, discrete, pulp-like agglomerates of fine, individual fibrils, called fibrets or fibrids, can be produced by rapid precipitation with an attenuating coagulation fluid. The individual fibers have diameters of 0.5 to 5.0 ]lni and lengths of 20 to 200 )Jm (Fig. 10). The surface area of the fibrillated fibers are about 20 m /g, about 60—80 times that of standard textile fibers. These materials are very hydrophilic an 85% moisture content has the appearance of a dry soHd (72). One appHcation is in a paper stmcture where their fine fiber size and branched stmcture allows mechanical entrapment of small particles. The fibers can also be loaded with particles to enhance some desired performance such as enhanced opacity for papers. When filled with metal particles it was suggested they be used as a radar screen in aerial warfare (73). 

Flow processes iaside the spinneret are governed by shear viscosity and shear rate. PET is a non-Newtonian elastic fluid. Spinning filament tension and molecular orientation depend on polymer temperature and viscosity, spinneret capillary diameter and length, spin speed, rate of filament cooling, inertia, and air drag (69,70). These variables combine to attenuate the fiber and orient and sometimes crystallize the molecular chains (71). 

Successive reflections of the pressure wave between the pipe inlet and the closed valve result in alternating pressure increases and decreases, which are gradually attenuated by fluid friction and imperfect elasticity of the pipe. Periods of reduced pressure occur while the reflected pressure wave is travehng from inlet to valve. Degassing of the liquid may occur, as may vaporization if the pressure drops below the vapor pressure of the liquid. Gas and vapor bubbles decrease the wave velocity. Vaporization may lead to what is often called liquid column separation subsequent collapse of the vapor pocket can result in pipe rupture. 

An additional advantage to neutron reflectivity is that high-vacuum conditions are not required. Thus, while studies on solid films can easily be pursued by several techniques, studies involving solvents or other volatile fluids are amenable only to reflectivity techniques. Neutrons penetrate deeply into a medium without substantial losses due to absorption. For example, a hydrocarbon film with a density of Ig cm havii a thickness of 2 mm attenuates the neutron beam by only 50%. Consequently, films several pm in thickness can be studied by neutron reflecdvity. Thus, one has the ability to probe concentration gradients at interfaces that are buried deep within a specimen while maintaining the high spatial resolution. Materials like quartz, sapphire, or aluminum are transparent to neutrons. Thus, concentration profiles at solid interfaces can be studied with neutrons, which simply is not possible with other techniques. 

Cell cultures provide infeeted fluids that eontain little debris and can generally be satisfactorily clarified by filtration. Beeause most viral vaccines made fiom cell cultures consist of live attenuated vims, there is no inaetivation stage in their manufacture. There are, however, two important exeeptions inaetivated poliomyelitis vims vaccine is inactivated with dilute formalin or /3-propiolaotone and rabies vaccine is inactivated with /3-propiolactone. The preparation of these inaetivated vaccines also involves a concentration stage, by adsorption and elution of the vims in the case of poliomyelitis vaccine and by ultrafiltration in the case of rabies vaceine. When processing is complete the bulk materials may be stored until needed for blending into final vaccine. Because of the lability of many vimses, however, it is necessary to store most purified materials at temperatures of-70°C. 

Perkins CJ, Kahya E, Roque CT, Roche PE, Newman GC. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI abnormalities in 117 consecutive patients with stroke symptoms. Stroke. 2001 32 2774-2781. 

The situation becomes quite different in heterogeneous systems, such as a fluid filling a porous medium. Restrictions by pore walls and the pore space microstructure become relevant if the root mean squared displacement approaches the pore dimension. The fact that spatial restrictions affect the echo attenuation curves permits one to derive structural information about the pore space [18]. This was demonstrated in the form of diffraction-like patterns in samples with micrometer pores [19]. Moreover, subdiffusive mean squared displacement laws [20], (r2) oc tY with y < 1, can be expected in random percolation clusters in the so-called scaling window,... 

P. V. Nelson, M. J. W. Povey, Y. Wang 2001, (An ultrasound velocity and attenuation scanner for viewing the temporal evolution of a dispersed phase in fluids), Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72, 4234. 

Before the injected fluids migrate out of the injection zone or to a point of discharge or interface with USDW, the fluid will no longer be hazardous because of attenuation, transformation, or immobilization of hazardous constituents within the injection zone by hydrolysis, chemical interactions, or other means. 

For IR sensing, three transducer principles are standard classical transmission for (sufficiently) transparent samples, (diffuse) reflection for opaque samples, in particular solids and strongly turbid liquids and attenuated total reflection (ATR), in particular for strongly absorbing samples and fluids with varying amounts of suspended solids or gas bubbles. 

During the mixing, concentrations of the Fl2S(aq), CH4(aq), and CH3COO components decrease as the vent fluid is diluted, and the SO4 concentration increases toward that of seawater. FhCaq) in the vent fluid attenuates not only... 

It is more difficult to perform ultrafast spectroscopy on neat H20 (than it is on H0D/D20 or HOD/H20) since the neat fluid is so absorptive in the OH stretch region. One innovative and very informative technique, developed by Dlott, involves IR pumping and Raman probing. This technique has a number of advantages over traditional IR pump-probe experiments The scattered light is Stokes-shifted, which is less attenuated by the sample, and one can simultaneously monitor the populations of all Raman-active vibrations of the system at the same time. These experimental have been brought to bear on the spectral diffusion problem in neat water [18, 19, 75 77],... 

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