Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, July 17, 2008

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities

Iowa Developments, August 2008, Volume 17, Number 5

Business Development news from the Iowa Department of Economic Development

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Kirje 17.11.1931

Kaanaassa, Urhon päivänä [17.6.]1925

Kirje 17.6.1925

Report and Recommendations of the Iowa Vertical Infrastructure Advisory Committee, December 17, 2007

This report summaries the work of the committee over the last year and its vision for the future. The committee is followed with interest the work of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Veterans Affairs in evaluating the needs of their facilities and recommends similar evaluations of facilities around the state by other agencies. The committee members are ready to offer advice on the needs of the state's again infrastructure and steps that could be taken to evaluate vacant and underutilized buildings and reduce operational and maintenance costs.

Iowa Developments, October 2008, Volume 17, Number 6

Business Development news from the Iowa Department of Economic Development

Helsinki 17.6.1929

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Characterization and detection of naturally occurring antibodies against IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta in normal human plasma.

During the development and testing of a radioreceptor assay (RRA) for human IL-1, we have detected and identified the presence of auto-antibodies to IL-1 in normal human plasma (NHP). The RRA is based on the competition between human 125I-labeled rIL-1 alpha and standard or unknown quantities of IL-1 alpha or IL-1 beta for binding to a limited amounts of IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) isolated from the EL4 mouse thymoma cell line. NHP from 20 out of 100 unselected blood donors were found to completely inhibit the binding of 125I-labeled IL-1 alpha to its receptor, suggesting the presence in these NHP samples of either abnormal amounts of IL-1 or of a factor binding to the 125I-labeled IL-1 alpha. Special care was taken to ascertain that the inhibitory factors were antibodies and not soluble IL-1 receptor antagonist. When plasma samples with inhibiting activity were incubated with labeled IL-1 alpha and chromatographed on a Sephadex G200 column, they were found to contain 125I-labeled complexes with an apparent molecular weight of 150-200kD. The IL-1 binding factor could be eliminated from plasma by incubation with protein A-Sepharose, suggesting that it consisted in IgG antibodies directed against IL-1. Furthermore, the antibody nature of the inhibiting factor was confirmed by its binding to purified rIL-1 coupled to Sepharose. Screening of 200 NHP samples by incubation with 100 pg of 125I-labeled IL-1 followed by precipitation with 12% of polyethylene glycol (PEG) confirmed that about 25% of NHP contain detectable IgG antibodies to IL-1 alpha, while only 2% of NHP contain antibodies to IL-1 beta. No correlation between the presence of these anti-IL-1 antibodies and any particular major histocompatibility complex or any pathological conditions was detected. We suggest that all serum samples assayed for IL-1 alpha or IL-1 beta content should be pretested with the PEG precipitation assay described here.

Evaluación de la calidad medio marino costero en la Bahía de Talara y aguas adyacentes, 15-17 abril 1997

Presenta los resultados obtenidos de la evaluación de la calidad del ecosistema marino costero de la bahía Talara y aguas adyacentes, realizada del 15 al 17 de abril de 1997, con el objetivo de establecer un análisis comparativo estacional (otoño) y evaluar la influencia de las descargas terrestres en el medio marino dentro del Programa de Vigilancia del Estado de Calidad Marino Costero. El objetivo principal del estudio es continuar con la vigilancia del estado de calidad acuática.

Lottery Action, Vol. 15, no. 15, August 4, 17, 2008

Iowa Lottery Authority Newsletter For Lottery Retailers

Lottery Action, Vol.15, no. 17, October 8-21, 2008

Iowa Lottery Authority Newsletter For Lottery Retailers