Interestingly, LPS, i.e., the prototypical stimulus of acute inflammation, induces IL-12 in human monocytes [20], thus distinguishing the latter inflammatory mechanism from chronic/sterile inflammation which implicates contact with stimulated T cells.
Three epidemiologic case studies in the United States (23 – 25 ) and 1 in Brazil (26 ) have implicated contact with armadillos as a risk factor for leprosy infection.
Investigations have implicated direct contact with diseased poultry as the primary risk factor for H5N1 virus infection (3, 4 ).
This divergent region, only partly stabilized in the crystal structures of Heliothis and Drosophila, is possibly implicated in contacts with ECR [ 25, 29].
Consistent with the greater salt dependence, mutation of charged residues located outside the active site face affects ribosome binding but not SRL binding, implicating additional contacts with the ribosome or long-range tertiary interactions.
Selectins have been implicated in mediating contacts with tumor cells within vasculature.
Gerry Alcock, a former councillor, has become increasingly annoyed about the link between his town and the scandal, arguing that those implicated have little or no contact with its people.
Cadherins have also been implicated in contact inhibition of cell proliferation [ 6].
Urinary concentrations of other phthalate metabolites, however, in general do not significantly differ between individuals from Egypt and the US, implicating similar routes of exposure and contact with phthalate-containing products between American and Egyptian girls.
American officials, however, say that one of the 23 suspected terrorists detained in Malaysia has admitted having contact with three of the people implicated in the September 11th attacks.
