Publications by authors named "J KILLANDER"
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- High testosterone levels in male alpacas may lead to coarser fiber and affect their mating success, prompting a study to explore factors influencing fiber quality and male mating behavior in Peruvian alpacas.
- The research involved 189 male alpacas in the Andes, analyzing fiber samples and evaluating factors like age, body condition score (BCS), and fiber color, while correlating these with fertility data from some males.
- Results highlighted that younger alpacas had finer fibers, better BCS improved certain fiber characteristics, and a link was found between fiber curvature and male fertility, suggesting strategic breeding could enhance fiber quality in alpacas.
Cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein (CSF-CRP) was studied in 183 consecutive infants and children with suspected meningitis, using a nephelometric technique. Cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein was above an empirically chosen level of 1 mg/1 in seven of 19 children with culture-proven bacterial meningitis, in only one of 15 children with viral meningitis, and three of 139 children with no meningitis. All 10 children with partially treated meningitis had CSF-CRP levels below 1 mg/1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBone marrow cells from two patients without detectable monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) in serum and urine but with the clinical picture of plasma cell myeloma were cultivated in vitro. Immunofluorescence studies of cultured living and fixed bone marrow cells showed no signs of Ig production in one of the cases, whereas in the other case cytoplasmic kappa chains were detected, which, however, were not expressed at the surface of living cells. Cells from the later patient were also subjected to kinetic, ultrastructural, and functional studies in vitro.
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