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  • 1
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 43 (1987), S. 251-260 
    ISSN: 1570-7458
    Keywords: spruce budworm ; Choristoneura fumiferana ; Lepidoptera ; Tortricidae ; white spruce ; Picea glauca ; food consumption ; survival ; development time ; artificial diet
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé De la poudre lyophilysée de pousses de l'année de Picea glauca a été introduite dans le régime de chenilles du 6ème stade de Choristoneura fumiferana: 20% de poudre de pousses, 1.2% de gélifiant, 78.8% d'eau. Il est ainsi possible de déterminer à 2 mg près la quantité d'aliment consommée par chaque chenille, et, ainsi, de calculer, pour chacune, l'indice alimentaire, dont la prise de nourriture est l'une des variables. Avec de tels régimes préparés à partie de pousses recueillies au cours de 1983, on a constaté que la date de nymphose, la quantité consommée, et le poids ultérieur des papillons dépendaient du sexe de la chenille. En général, les chenilles femelles se nymphosent plus tard, consomment plus et donnent des papillons plus lourds (poids sec) que les chenilles mâles. L'efficacité de l'assimilation et celle de la transformation en biomasse de papillon ne différent pas suivant les sexes, c'est-à-dire qu'ils ont la même aptitude à digérer les pousses. Les taux de survie de chenille à nymphe et de nymphe à imago ne différent donc pas. Cependant, certains de ces paramètres et d'autres changent en fonction de l'âge des pousses annuelles. Quand elles ont été récoltées 7 jours après le débourrement (il a lieu le 20 mai), la survie jusqu'en nymphe est de 93% contre 74% de survie totale; avec des pousses récoltées 52 jours après le débourrement (11 juillet) les taux de survie sont respectivement 7% et 1.4%; avec des pousses récoltées 146 jours après le débourrement (13 octobre) les survies sont 71% et 50%. Des pousses récoltées 28 jours ou plus après le débourrement, retardent la date de nymphose de 25% par rapport à celles récoltées entre 7 et 14 après le débourrement; parallèlement, elles abaissent l'efficacité de l'assimilation de 39%, l'efficacité de conversion de la biomasse de 125%, et le poids des papillons de 54%. Ces changements sont liés à une diminution de la teneur en azote des pousses de 2.1% à environ 1% du poids sec. Cependant la corrélation entre la survie des chenilles et la teneur en azote n'est pas rigoureuse et un facteur encore inconnu est supposé responsable de l'augmentation de la mortalité quand les chenilles consomment (dans leur régime) des pousses récoltées début juillet, 52 jours après le débourrement. Les travaux destinés à identifier ce facteur inconnu sont en cours.
    Notes: Abstract Diets prepared from lyophilized and powdered current-year (1983) shoots of white spruce Picea glauca (Moench) Voss were offered to 6th-instar larvae of spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). With increasing age of current-year shoots, time to pupation increased whereas survival, assimilation efficiency, efficiency of conversion of diet to moth biomass, and moth dry weight generally decreased. Sex of the larvae influenced amount ingested, time to pupation, and subsequent moth weight but not survival, assimilation efficiency, and efficiency of conversion of diet to moth biomass.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1573-3521
    Keywords: cluster analysis ; cancer ; personality ; survival
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Psychology
    Notes: Abstract Using 14 personality measures obtained while the subjects were in medical school, the resulting profiles of 972 physicians were clustered into five groups using a two-stage cluster analysis procedure. Subjects were followed over a 30-year period to determine the cumulative survival rate (proportion of subjects remaining free of cancer) in each group. Statistically significant group differences in survival rate were found, with the group characterized by acting out and emotional expression having the most favorable curve (less than 1% developing cancer). The group characterized as “loners,” who may well have suppressed their emotions, had the most unfavorable survival curve and was 16 times more likely to develop cancer than was the group characterized by acting out and emotional expression.
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  • 3
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    Electronic Resource
    Bognor Regis [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 27 (1989), S. 993-1007 
    ISSN: 0887-6266
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: The pressure-volume-temperature properties of poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) were studied experimentally at temperatures of 400°C and pressures to 200 MPa. Specific volume data were fitted successfully to the empirical Tait equation for T 〈 Tg and T 〉 Tm and to the theoretical Simha-Somcynsky equation of state for the melt. The pressure dependence of the glass-transition temperature is about 0.57-0.59°C/MPa and that of the melting point 0.483°C/MPa. The pressure dependence of the melting point, the specific volume of the melt at Tm, and the specific volume of the crystal at Tm determined from x-ray diffraction data at elevated temperatures were combined in the Clapeyron equation to calculate a heat of fusion of 161 ± 20 J/g for the PEEK crystal. This value is somewhat higher than the previously reported value of 130 J/g.
    Additional Material: 8 Ill.
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  • 4
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    Electronic Resource
    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 19 (1985), S. 1101-1115 
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Macrophage adhesion to a wide variety of substrates has been measured, but no systematic study of the influence of specific substrate chemical properties on adhesion is available. These studies were conducted using two series of materials, copolymers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and ethyl methacrylate (EMA) and copolymers of hydroxystyrene and styrene, to determine the effect of a single chemical property, polar character, on adhesion. Rat periotoneal macrophages were allowed to contact polymer substrates for periods ranging from 1 to 240 min before being subjected to a shear stress of 60-120 dynes/cm2 in a thin-channel flow cell. Percentage adhesion was calculated from the number of cells that remained adherent to the substrate after 30 s of applied shear stress. Macrophages remained adherent to 100% EMA and all hydroxystyrene-styrene copolymer surfaces after only 1 min of contact. In copolymers of the HEMA-EMA series, the time required to attain peak adhesion levels increased with increasing substrate hydrophilicity (increasing HEMA content). Cells did not attach to the 20% EMA/80% HEMA copolymer and the 100% HEMA polymer. The results demonstrate that there is a time delay between contact and adhesion of the cells to surfaces of increasing hydrophilicity within the HEMA-EMA series and no time delay with the hydroxystyrene-styrene series. The time delay is thought to be a function of the excluded volume provided by polymers that are able to undergo significant chain rotation and or swelling in the solvent, water. Small excluded volumes present in copolymers of high EMA content and all hydroxystyrene-styrene copolymers offer little or no resistance to formation of adhesive bonds by macrophages, whereas copolymers with large excluded volumes (high HEMA content) prevent contact and/or adhesion. A mechanism based on the net excluded volumes of both the cell and substrate surface macromolecule is proposed to explain this phenomenon.
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  • 5
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 19 (1985), S. 1117-1133 
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: The development of membranes that swell in response to glucose is reported. The membranes may prove to be useful in glucose monitoring or glucose-dependent insulin delivery. The polymers were synthesized by the radiation-induced polymerization of frozen solutions containing hydroxyethyl methacrylate, N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, tetraethylene glycol dimethacrylate, ethylene glycol, water, and glucose oxidase. The polymers were hydrogels, with water contents in the range of 60-90%, depending on the pH or glucose concentration. Changes in swelling and permeability of the hydrogel were caused by exposure to glucose solutions. The gluconic acid formed by the glucose oxidase catalyzed oxidation of glucose in the membrane lowered the pH of the system and thus caused the changes in the membrane. The retention of enzyme activity by the membranes in vitro and in vivo is also reported. The large differences in properties among membranes made with different chemical formulations suggest that glucose-sensitive membranes with performance characteristics needed for an artificial pancreas may be an achievable goal.
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  • 6
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    Electronic Resource
    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 22 (1988), S. 763-793 
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: The interaction of cells with solid surfaces is important in many settings, including the response of tissue to implanted materials. Protein adsorption to the surfaces plays a critical role in controlling cell interactions with surfaces. However, few comprehensive studies of both cell behavior and protein adsorption in complex protein mixtures (e.g., serum) have been done so the connection between these events is not well understood. In particular, methods to systematically perturb both protein adsorption and cell behavior in order to understand their relationship have been lacking. To induce changes in cell and protein behavior, the effects of serum dilution and substrate surface chemistry were studied. Surface chemistry was varied by using a series of polymers and copolymers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and ethylmethacrylate (EMA) varying in their hydrophobic/hydrophilic balance. Large changes in cell spreading and fibronectin adsorption were observed when either serum concentration or polymer type was varied. The spreading of 3T3 cells in serum was found to be well correlated with the amount of fibronectin adsorption to the substrates. Attachment was not correlated with fibronectin adsorption, especially on glass preadsorbed with diluted serum. For 3T3 cells and perhaps other cells that have a receptor for a protein which is present in the medium, the amount of adsorption of this protein to the substrate appears to be a critical factor controlling cell interactions with the substrate.
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  • 7
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 21 (1987), S. 843-859 
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Certain biomaterials, including nylon oxygenator and cellulosic dialysis membranes, are potent activators of human complement. In this study, the effect of polymers containing 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) on the human complement system was investigated. Copolymers of HEMA with ethylmethacrylate (EMA) varying from 100 to 40% HEMA in the monomer made by radiation initiation were used to coat glass discs. These were equilibrated with human plasma in vitro and the degree of complement activation was quantitated by C3a radio immunoassay. Significant activation was caused by copolymers made from monomers containing 60% or greater HEMA. A direct relationship between the amount of activation and the percentage of HEMA was found. The degree of activation by poly HEMA, when corrected for surface area, was quite similar to that observed for dialysis and oxygenator membranes. Similar observations were made when solid casts of crosslinked HEMA/N-vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) copolymer gels were tested, but the magnitude of activation was much greater. The results are significant because complement activation may play an important role in the response to foreign surfaces, in both extravascular and intravascular settings. A new concept of molecular biocompatibility is proposed in which surfaces eliciting molecular transformations in any of the biological defense systems are deemed nonbiocompatible. By this criterion, the hydrogel poly-HEMA, which has so frequently been thought of as biocompatible, is considered to be a molecularly nonbiocompatible material.
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  • 8
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    Electronic Resource
    Basel : Wiley-Blackwell
    Die Makromolekulare Chemie, Rapid Communications 9 (1988), S. 513-517 
    ISSN: 0173-2803
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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