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Kisumu is made up of industrial, commercial, and residential areas, with patches of agricultural land, gardens, tall grass, and a swamp which maintains the riparian and marine ecology along the lakeshore.
MAdCAM-1 is a 60 kD endothelial cell adhesion molecule expressed on the surface of high endothelial venules in the gut, and in Peyers patches.
Covering the breasts was a joined pair of black velvet, diamond-shaped patches, whose bottom points met the top points of a long black velvet skirt, of which the top edge plunged in one sharp V to the lace-covered navel in front, and swept diagonally back in a bigger V to the bottom of the lace-covered spine.
Frozen sections of the spleen, lymph nodes and Peyer's patches were incubated with 10% normal horse serum in PBS, counterstained with biotin-labeled B220 antibody followed by PE-labeled streptavidin, analyzed using a Nikon E800 fluorescent microscope with a SPOT imaging system (Diagnostic instruments, Sterling Heights, MI) and counted as previously described [ 28 ] .
P2X 2 receptors were expressed in Xenopus oocytes by mRNA injection [ 35 ] . In order to obtain outside-out patches with a single channel from Xenopus oocytes, we decreased expression by reducing the amount of mRNA from 50 ng to 25 ng, lowering the incubation temperature from 17 to 14°C, and shortening the incubation time to 16 hours.