Abstract: An apparatus with a high coefficient friction pad and an inflatable base for use in connection with transfer and pressure management. The inflatable base has one or more low coefficient friction areas and has one or more high coefficient friction areas disposed thereon. The base has one or more chambers capable of being disposed in fluid communication with a source of fluid for inflating the base. Inflation of the one or more chambers causes the low coefficient friction areas to contact the surgical table and deflation of the base causes the low coefficient friction areas to be removed from contact with the surgical table and casuses the high coefficient friction areas to contact the surgical table.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant vectors carrying sequences encoding naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides or derivatives thereof for the treatment of mammalian tumours and viral infections such as HIV infections and bacterial and fungal infections. In particular the present invention relates to retroviral vectors. Furthermore, the present invention relates to retroviral vectors which undergo promoter conversion (Procon vectors) carrying such sequences. Since these vectors also carry tumour or virus specific regulatory elements, the therapeutic antimicrobial peptide will be delivered and expressed only in relevant, affected cells and not in innocent bystander cells.