Bartonella endocarditis mimicking adult Still's disease (2008)
De Clerck, K. F., Van Offel, J. F., Vlieghe, E., Van Marck, E., Stevens, W. J.
We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian woman who was admitted to the University Hospital of Antwerp with a clinical picture suggestive of adult Still's disease. Even though a...
Antioxidant effect of bisphosphonates and simvastatin on chondrocyte lipid peroxidation (2006)
De Tollenaere, C. B, Aerts, K, Cos, P, Schuerwegh, A. J, Bridts, C. H, ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of bisphosphonates (BPs) and simvastatin on chondrocyte lipid peroxidation. For this purpose, a flow cytometrical method using C11-BODIPY581/591...
Perioperative anaphylaxis from locally applied rifamycin SV and latex (2006)
Ebo, D. G., Verheecke, G., Bridts, C. H., Mertens, C. H., Stevens, W. J.
A patient developed severe anaphylaxis during irrigation of a wound with rifamycin SV. The temporal relationship between application of rifamycin SV, the positive skin test and basophil activation...
A Subsonic Gas Gun for Pneumatic Projection of Gun Propellant Grains. (2005)
A locally constructed gas gun is described which can reproducibly project grains of M30 and NACO propellant at velocities varying from 50 to 90 m/s for M30 propellant and 100 to 135 m/s for NACO...
Cytokines and immune activation in systolic heart failure : the role of type D personality (2003)
Denollet, J., Conraads, V., Brutsaert, D.L., Clerck, L.S. De, Stevens, W.J., Vrints, C.J.
Schuerwegh, A. J., Van Offel, J. F., Stevens, W. J., Bridts, C. H., De Clerck, L. S.
Introduction. It has been shown that T lymphocytes and monocytes/macrophages, producing pro-inflammatory cytokines, play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In recent...
Schuerwegh, A. J., Van Offel, J. F., Stevens, W. J., Bridts, C. H., De Clerck, L. S.
Introduction. It has been shown that T lymphocytes and monocytes/macrophages, producing pro‐inflammatory cytokines, play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis...
Schuerwegh, A. J., Van Offel, J. F., Stevens, W. J., Bridts, C. H., De Clerck, L. S.
Introduction. It has been shown that T lymphocytes and monocytes/macrophages, producing pro-inflammatory cytokines, play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In recent...
BIOMEMETIC MOLECULES AND INTERNAL ROTOR SPLITTINGS (2002)
Lavrich, R. J., Suenram, R. D., Plusquellic, D. F., Fraser, G. T., Hougen, Jon T., Stevens, W. J., ...
Author Institution: Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Department of Chemistry, Kent State University; Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of...
Lavrich, R. J., Plusquellic, D. F., Suenram, R. D., Fraser, G. T., Stevens, W. J., Tuber-Gen, M. J.
Author Institution: Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Department of Chemistry, Kent State University
Application of Quantum Chemistry of Atmospheric Chemistry. (2002)
Relativistic effective potentials have been generated for a number of relevant metals such as iron, neodymium, and uranium and applied to calculations of the oxide electronic states including...
Application of Quantum Chemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry. (2002)
Analysis of the accuracy of the experimentally deduced dissociation energies of refractory metal salts requires a knowledge of the electronic structure of the molecules. Relativistic effective...
IgE-mediated anaphylaxis after first intravenous infusion of cyclosporine. (2001)
Ebo, D.G., Piel, Géraldine, Conraads, V., Stevens, W.J.
BACKGROUND: Intravenous administration of cyclosporine, which contains Cremophor EL (a polyethoxylated castor oil; BASF, Berlin, Germany), has occasionally resulted in an anaphylactic reaction. An...
PURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM AND STRUCTURE OF ZIRCONIUM DIOXIDE (1999)
Brugh, Dale J., Suenram, R. D., Stevens, W. J.
Author Institution: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Optical Technology Division; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Physical and Chemical Properties Division
Application of Quantum Chemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry. (1998)
Relativistic effective potentials have been used to calculate the electronic structure and spectroscopic properties of UO+. The excitation energies of the excited states of UO+ were calculated using...
Specific decrease of anti-pseudomonal IgA after anti-pseudomonal therapy in cystic fibrosis (1995)
De Boeck, Christiane; U0002567, Eggermont, Ephrem; U0017135, Smet, M, Van Reempts, P, Van Bever, H P, Stevens, W J
In patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic colonisation with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, specific anti-pseudomonal IgG and IgA, as well as serum immunoreactive protein C, WBC and differential...
THE MICROWAVE SPECTRUM AND STRUCTURE OF THE $CH_{3}NO_{2}-H_{2} O$ DIMFR (1994)
Lovas, F. J., Fraser, G. T., Suenram, R. D., Zobov, N. F., Stevens, W. J.
$^{1}$C. F. Melius, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, A 339, 365 (1992).
VAN HOEYWEGHEN, R. J., VAN OFFEL, J. F., DE CLERCK, L. S., RAMAEL, M. R., VAN MARCK, E. A., STEVENS, W. J.
STRUCTURES AND SPECTROSCOPIC CONSTANTS OF SOME PROTONATED GROUP VIA MOLECULES (1985)
Author Institution: Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards; Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF FeO, RuO, FeH, AND RuH (1984)
Author Institution: Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards
A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ORIGINS OF THE GREEN AND RED SPECTRA OF $Ca_{2}$ (1982)
Rosenkrantz, M.E., Krauss, M., Stevens, W.J.
1. J.C. Wyaa, paper RE13 34th Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, Ohio (June 1979). 2. W.J. Balfour and R.F. Whitlock, Can. J. Phys. 53, 472 (1975). 3. J.C. Miller and L. Andrews, Appl....
DIPOLE POLARIZABILITIES OF Zn, Cd AND Hg ($^{1}$S) (1979)
Konowalow, Daniel D., Rosenkrantz, Marcy E., Stevens, W. J., Krauss, M.
Author Institution:
Stevens, W. J., Bertoncini, Peter J., Wahl, Arnold C.
Author Institution: National Bureau of Standards; Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
ARGON OXIDE EXCIMER EMISSION NEAR 5577 \AA (1976)
Julienne, P. S., Krauss, M., Stevens, W. J.
Author Institution: National Bureau of Standards; National Bureau of Standards
QUANTUM CHEMISTRY OF $Mg_{2}$ GROUND AND EXCITED STATES (1975)
Author Institution: National Bureau of Standards; National Bureau of Standards
Dissertation (Dip.Nat.Res.)--University of Canterbury, 1974.
ABSOLUTE INTENSITIES OF THE $OH(X^{2}\Pi)$ MEINEL BANDS. (1973)
Kraus, Morris, Mies, F. H., Neumann, D., Stevens, W. J., Wahl, Arnold C.
We find that the overtone intensities are generally more intense than the fundamentals and the vibration-rotation interaction can modify the intensities by an order of magnitude. This is due to the...
Das, G., Bertoncini, Peter J., Stevens, W. J., Wahl, Arnold C., Krauss, M., Billingsley, Frank P.
Author Institution: Argonne National Laboratory Argonne; National Bureau of Standards
De Clerck, L S, Westedt, M L, Cats, A, Vermeer, B J, Weltevreden, E F, Bridts, C H, ...
Biopsy specimens from apparently normal skin of 28 patients with classical or definite rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined for the presence of IgE deposition by a direct immunofluorescence...
Struyf, N J, Snoeck, H W, Bridts, C H, De Clerck, L S, Stevens, W J
Natural killer (NK) cell activity and its stimulation by interferons (IFNs) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) are diminished in Sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Serum samples of...
De Clerck, L S, Struyf, N J, Bridts, C H, Stevens, W J
Neutrophil and monocyte activation by immune complexes containing IgE from serum and synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis is reported. Activation of the inflammatory cells was...
De Clerck, L S, Struyf, N J, Bridts, C H, Van Marck, E A, Breedveld, F C, Devries, E, ...
An experimental arthritis model in the rat was used to study the arthritogenic potential of complexed IgE. IgE aggregates were produced in vitro by cross linking monoclonal rat IgE by dimethyl...
Stevens, W J, Feldmeir, H, Bridts, C H, Daffalla, A A
IgG and IgE containing circulating immune complexes (CIC), total serum IgE and parasite related IgE were determined in monoinfected patients with Schistosoma mansoni or S.haematobium and in patients...
Immunological investigation in adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) deficiency.
Stevens, W J, Peetermans, M E, Van Acker, K J
In a family with partial or total adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) deficiency, T and B cell function was evaluated by counting rosette-forming cells, by investigating lymphocyte...
De Clerck, L S, Gigase, P L, Bridts, C H, Stevens, W J
IgM-rheumatoid factor (RF) interference in the determination of total serum IgE and IgE-containing circulating immune complexes (IgE-CIC) was studied by inhibition experiments in vitro comparing a...
Immune complexes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibodies in cystic fibrosis.
Van Bever, H P, Gigase, P L, De Clerck, L S, Bridts, C H, Franckx, H, Stevens, W J
Serum samples from 57 patients with cystic fibrosis were tested for the presence of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, and circulating immune complexes containing IgG, IgA, and IgM. Titres of class specific...