characterize blood flow in the human body

... H-shaped prosthesis inserted into the portal vein and the inferior vena cava of the in vivo rabbit modelFigure 1 Diagram of silastic H-shaped prosthesis inserted into the portal vein and the inferior ... by relat- ing the readings to the wet weight of the liver, determined at the end of each experiment. The "buffering capacity" of the HA was expressed in % as: [Increase in HA flow / Decrease ... of changes in blood flow vs dose of drug injected were then constructed. Calculations Blood flows were recorded on the flowmeters in ml min -1 and subsequently recalculated in ml min -1 100

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... used for seeing The meaning I ( called the first meaning ) presents the centre of the semantic structure of the word holding it together. It dominates over the other meanings. The meaning II, III ... only study the polysemantic words having primary meaning denoting parts of the human body. We do not pay attention to words having derived meaning denoting parts of the human body and to the phenomenon ... called the second meanings ) are associated directly with the meaning I. In some cases the second meanings are associated indirectly with the first meaning as for instance, the meaning III of the

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... (approximately one minute in humans), how the agent is diffused in the vasculature is important when calculating the concentration profile In calculating the cerebral blood flow (CBF), the concentration ... control conduits of blood from the arteries into the capil- laries The muscular walls of the arterioles greatly change the amount of blood going into the capillaries, having the ability to greatly ... work includes the dispersion of solute in turbulent flow in a pipe (62], dispersion of solute in a pipe where the distri- bution of the solute is described in terms of its moments in the flow

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:12

... the sternomanubrial joint ANS: B The maxilla a is the cheekbone b is a cranial bone c contains the upper teeth d articulates with the temporal bone at the TMJ ANS: C Which bone is found in the ... MULTIPLE CHOICE The humerus a is located in the arm b is distal to the radius and ulna c articulates with the clavicle at the acromioclavicular joint d is a bone of the axial skeleton ANS: A The humerus ... 92 Which of the following is least true of the occipital bone? a Contains condyles that articulate with C1 b Contains the mastoid process and the external auditory meatus c Contains the foramen

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2019, 09:27

... of the body Toward the head or above Toward the midline of the body TestorBank The Human Body in Health Away from the trunk point for of origin Toward the feet or below Toward the back Full file ... dividing the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities The lower part of the ventral body cavity Divides the body into right and left sides Part of the dorsal cavity that contains the brain Divides the ... 14 25 Which of the following body functions is an example of a positive feedback loop? a Maintaining a pH of 7.45 in the body b Forming a blood clot c Uterine contractions during labor d Both

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2020, 10:11

... employing the names of the human- body parts in English and finding the similarities and the differences between those and the metaphors based on the same humanbody parts in Vietnamese In the thesis, ... Đầu đinh ốc The head of a pin Đầu đinh ghim 7 .The head of the train Đầu tàu The head of the table Đầu bàn The head of the bed Đầu giường 10 The head of the stair Đầu cầu thang 11 The head of the ... study investigates the use of the metaphors employing the names of the human- body parts in English and their equivalents in Vietnamese It is carried out with the aim of describing a number of the

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2023, 14:34

... fulfilled by the radioligand Conclusion: The reference tissue method is appropriate for estimating the binding potential of [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine in regions of the human brain so that the binding ... potentials in the frontal and temporal cortices, intermediate binding potential in the thalamus, and low binding potentials in the striatum, hypothalamus, and brainstem Thereafter, we initiated ... [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine remained in the bloodstream throughout the scan, with 30% to 60% of the radioactivity in the bloodstream arising from unmetabolized [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine at a 25-min postinjection

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... markings are dominant in man-made objects as shown in Figure Note the large variations of the surface markings at the interior regions of the objects The effect of surface marking is much larger in ... left image in Figure The first feature dimension extracted by the visual system in the retina and present in the LGN is luminance contrast In the primary visual cortex, neurons use this input to ... the background codebook However, the pose distribution is uniform, since they are distributed randomly in area A Details of learning and inference will be explained in the next sections Cup instances

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... the inner bud scales or the first leaves, in the lower part of the branches produced in the same year. Staminate inflorescences are initiat- ed in late spring, flowers ... flow) could induce the decline of a species and may explain the situation of several endangered oak species (Q inckleyi, Q tardifolia) On the contrary, maintaining gene flow mainly ... fruiting in the white oaks I Staminate flower- Sharp ing through pollen dispersal Ecology 42, 365-372 Sharp WM, Sprague VG (1967) Flowering and fruiting in the white oaks Pistillate flowering,

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... absent in the two gonococci (which colonize the urogenital tract). This led to an intriguing novel finding. Out of the only nine genes present in the seven nasopharynx colonizers but missing in the ... plasmids in E. coli before transforming them into the meningococcus. We therefore subcloned the mini-transposon into a plasmid with a R6K ori- gin of replication that requires the product of the pir ... 80% of their length. All the remaining CDSs were then annotated manually using the same procedure as for strain 8013, start- ing with Z2491 and transferring this new annotation to the remaining

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... since the 13-mer motif occurs in only about 40% of human hotspots [32] and the variation in the zinc finger array of the Prdm9 gene can expl ain only about 18% of varia- tion in human recombination ... Importantly, human Prdm9 protein was predicted to recognize the aforemen- tioned 13-mer motif CCNCCNTNNCCNC in a zinc fin- ger binding array. The f ast evolution of Prdm9 protein and its binding motif ... beginning and the end of the simulation (Tables S1, S2, and S3 in Additional file 3). If the hot allele fre- quency at the beginning of evolution was 100%, it is called the ‘cooling’ model; otherwise,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... to the following parameters: hourly fluctuations in maternal and fetal HR, intra-minute fluctuation of HR, and baseline rhythm. The baseline was defined as the level obtained at 7 a.m., under the ... [14] directed their investigations mainly toward the study of fetal heart rate changes during the mother's sleep. Our findings agree with Hellbrugge's [13] results indicating the occurrence ... involved in the intrauterine devel- opment of the fetus requires the availability of a relatively persistent homeostasis; the fetus employing its intrinsic adaptive capacities of responding to the

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... that the study of the blood may reveal an individual’s age, and that the correction of blood disorders may limit the risk of aging-related events, including... ferritin and aging ... approach to the management of cancer in the aging patient. This is followed by a full discussion of hematopoiesis and the changes it undergoes in aging. The remaining sections cover the diagnosis ... Blood Disorders in the Elderly The developed world has an increasingly aging population, with approximately 10% of the population aged over 65 years. As the incidence and prevalence of blood

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... maturity, the putative endpoint... fell in D2 mice while they continued to rise in the B6 mice Thus, we surmised that the aging of the stem cells in these two strains differed according ... For instance, does aging begin at birth, at which point development has culminated in an independently functioning individual, or does it begin at puberty, when the individual has attained ... determination in these two strains Congenic mice were then generated where we crossed the QTLcontaining interval from the D2 strain onto a B6 background (B6.D2 Chr 2) to test the mapping

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... in older individuals [9–15]. Despite these changes, hematopoiesis appears adequate to maintain the homeostasis of the periph- eral blood elements both in healthy elderly persons and in aging ... [10,11,91] During the last two decades there has been much progress in understanding the role of the immune system, pro -in ammatory cytokines [ 13] , gene interactions [92], point... progenitors ... The peripheral blood counts do not appear significantly reduced in the aged [1 3] , at least up to age 90, indicating that homeostasis is preserved even in the oldest old, in the

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... in the elderly, supporting... recycling, storage, and utilization Iron is excreted by shedding of intestinal and skin cells, and through minor blood loss in the intestine In principle, ... express the IL-6 mRNA, and support the hypothesis of autocrine synthesis of IL-6 in these patients. Most investigators, however, agree that the contribution of autocrine IL-6 is minimal, and there ... oxyuridine (BRD-URD) incorporation and double immunoenzymatic labeling on cytological smears [86]. The BRD-URD is incorporated into the nucleus of cells synthesizing DNA. The plasma-cell labeling

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... like they expected a receipt. — K IN H UBBARD , humorist (1868–1930) Two Sides of the Same Coin In Mandarin the words buy and sell are the same in the spo- ken language, differing only in the ... actually the name of a muscle. Its claim to fame is that it’s the largest muscle in the human body. Can you guess where one can find it? Hint: you sit on it. An incredible machine, the human body ... in the face of overwhelming complexity.” The Sciences MISCELLANEOUS WORDS 99 In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

... by growth in iron-rich media. We have also shown that the increase in the prooxidant state caused by iron loading has an impact in protein integrity, as indicated by an increase in protein-bound ... localizes in the cytoplasm of human epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, two central organs in the regulation of iron metabolism [20,21]. After their synthesis in the endo- plasmic ... threefold the ferritin content as determined by the increase in mean fluorescence inten- sity (MFI) (Fig. 1C). As shown in Fig. 1B, permeabili- zation with saponin did not increase background staining...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... antibody, appeared at 90 kDa. Loading control was performed using an antibody against b-actin, which produced a band at 42 kDa. The data indicate the intensity of the HLA-G band related to the ... an increase in binding capacity [25]. Identification of nitration site in the extracellular domain of ILT2 In the extracellular domain of ILT2, there are several Tyr residues that participate in ... directly in the interaction with HLA-G [3,19] and Tyr35 is located in the very vicinity of Tyr38. These modifications should affect the binding pocket directly. Furthermore, Tyr99 stabilizes the angle between...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... provides the residues for binding the coenzyme. The C-terminal domain has a lar- gely a-helical structure, and serves mainly in substrate binding. The active site is located in the interdomain cleft, ... (40–800 mm), and so the choice of the constant level of Fru was not critical for determination of D K m (1.23 ± 0.15). The KIE data in Table 4 are instrumen- tal in delineating the kinetic mechanism ... Considering the uncertainty in the in vivo levels of NADH, Fru and Man-ol1P used, we per- formed a sensitivity analysis in which the effects of changes in intracellular reactant concentrations on the thermodynamic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20