(1) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(2) The clinical presentation of the disease and the results of treatment in 48 patients with metastases at diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma, entered into the Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma Studies (CESS) 1981 and 1986 of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology (GPO), were analysed.
(3) These results are similar to those obtained in 59 patients treated from 1979 to 1982 (average follow-up, 10 years) using the same drugs administered according to adjuvant chemotherapy procedure as well as those reported in the only other large study on this subject in the literature (the multi-institution German study CESS-81).
(4) By this method, preoperative localization of the insulin producing pancreatic islet cell tumor was su-cessfully performed.
(5) The same DNA fragment directed cell-specific transcription of the IL-2 receptor gene in extract of HTLV-I-infected T cells, MT-1, but not of Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cells, CESS.
(6) MSF said case numbers had dropped in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, where there was now surplus bed capacity, but added that many international agencies “seem unable to adapt to the rapidly changing situation” with outbreaks in Bong, Margibi, Gbarpolu, Grand Cape Mount and River Cess counties.
(7) The toxicity of the VAIA regimen was comparable with that of the conventional vincristine, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide, and adriamycin (VACA) regime used in the previous CESS 81 trial.
(8) Histamine increases the IL-6 binding by CESS cells and inhibits that by U937 and HepG2 cells.
(9) In CESS 86, however, the results after radiation therapy have been improved markedly (3-year RFS 67% after radiation therapy, 65% after surgery, and 62% after resection plus irradiation).
(10) The effects of the supernatants obtained from culture fluids of the ATL cells and the T-cell lines on IgG production of a human B-cell line, CESS cells, were also examined.
(11) IgA-specific suppressive activity was absorbed with human B blastoid cells bearing surface IgA (Dakiki) but not with those bearing surface IgG (CESS) or murine and human T cell line cells (BW5147, L5178Y, HPB-ALL, and MOLT4), indicating that IgA-BF interact with B cells bearing IgA to suppress their differentiation.
(12) In contrast, PA317 and GH3 IL 6 were 230 and 6.7 times more effective than COS-7 IL 6 in inducing Ig production in CESS cells.
(13) Supernatant from the human bladder carcinoma line T-24 contains a B-cell differentiation factor (BCDF) able to induce immunoglobulin secretion from CESS cells.
(14) At present, Kaplan-Meier disease-free survival projects that disease-free survival in patients with large primary tumors has improved compared with that reported for the previous CESS 81 trial.
(15) Supernatants (Sups) of culture fluids of ATL cells from 4 patients and those of 2 T-cell lines were added at various concentrations to the CESS cells.
(16) IL-6 was found 1 degree to stimulate immunoglobulin A production by the CESS B cell line up to 19 fold without being affected by the presence of IL-1 beta and 2 degrees to stimulate murine thymocytes proliferation up to 2-4 fold, with an increase up to 60-fold in costimulation with either IL-1 alpha or beta.
(17) CESS, L4 and BALM4 all increased IgG production in response to partially purified B cell growth factor (Cellular Products, Inc., Sera-Lab., Crawley Down, GB) and B cell differentiation factor-containing supernatant from the T24 bladder carcinoma cell line.
(18) Studies of Ebstein-Barr virus-transformed B cell lines showed that IFN-alpha caused a similar effect on the CESS line as on peripheral blood B cells, with low dose enhancement and high dose suppression of Ig production.
(19) A low-frequency suppressor-cell population in normal peripheral blood inhibits the B-cell CESS response to IL-6, following pokeweed mitogen stimulation.
(20) When SPL were cultured with OK-432 for 24 h in serum-free T medium, the cell-free supernatant induced production of IgM in the SKW6.CL-4 and IgG in the CESS human B cell line, while no such activity was detected in unstimulated SPL culture.
Cessor
Definition:
(v. i.) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit.
(v. t.) An assessor.
Example Sentences:
(1) His suc cessors decided otherwise, embracing capitalism and the free market, but with arguable benefits to the country.