Abstract: The present invention provides methods of treating, inhibiting or preventing pathogenic change resulting from vascular injury in a subject, particularly restenosis resulting substantially from angioplasty. The methods comprise administering a therapeutically-effective amount of an aldosterone antagonist, particularly eplerenone, in a mammalian subject susceptible to or suffering from said pathogenic change.

Abstract: An improved method is provided for transferring data files between a first computing device and a second computing device interconnected by a network. The method includes: establishing a first network connection between the first computing device and a second computing device using the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP); registering a file transfer request for a given data file with a server application residing on the second computing device; establishing a second network connection between the first computing device and the second computing device using HTTP; retrieving the file transfer request from the server application via the second network connection; and transferring the data file via the second network connection in response to the file transfer request retrieved from the server application.

Abstract: A method and system which is adapted to receive a data stream, and test a series of multiple-bit sequences from this data stream against a plurality of different character forming criteria until both of the following events have occurred. Specifically, a predetermined number of the multiple-bit sequences must be received and tested, and a predetermined mix of multiple-bit sequences satisfying at least two of the character forming criteria must be received and tested. Once both of these events have occurred, then a data word format is determined from the results of this testing, and the computer is configured to interpret and output characters from the data stream in accordance with this data word format setting. The characters interpreted from the data stream are also tested against a plurality of terminal emulation criteria until a character sequence has been detected which is indicative of only one emulation standard.