In vitro Culture with Cytokines Provides a Tool to Assess the Effector Functions of ILC2s in Peripheral Blood in Asthma

Li Y Drake,1,2 Kathleen R Bartemes,1,3 Kay A Bachman,1 John B Hagan,1 Hirohito Kita1,4 1Division of Allergic Diseases and Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 2Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 4Division o

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Precision Low-Cost Compact Micro-Displacement Sensors Based on a New Arrangement of Cascaded Levers with Flexural Joints

Existing displacement sensors of micrometers to sub-micron precision are expensive and have various limitations.This paper reports the design and development of a new contact type compact micro-displacement sensor of sub-micron precision for a fraction of the cost of commercial devices.The basic concept of the new sensor system applies a mechanical

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