physiology diagnostics and clinical implications

... THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM – PHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSTICS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Edited by David C Gaze The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications Edited by David ... outstanding person! She was the General Manager of the Company CARDIOCODE-Finland She remains in our memory for ever 22 The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications ... Fighter Pilots 241 David G Newman and Robin Callister Section Clinical Impact of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology 255 Chapter 13 Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health Raul A...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... outstanding person! She was the General Manager of the Company CARDIOCODE-Finland She remains in our memory for ever 22 The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications ... Fighter Pilots 241 David G Newman and Robin Callister Section Clinical Impact of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology 255 Chapter 13 Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health Raul A ... Cardiovascular  Physiology and Pathophysiology  –  The  final  section  of  this  textbook  relates  physiology to  pathophysiology,  clinical presentation and implications of cardiovascular diseases. The first chapter of this ...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... splanchnic and renal vasoconstriction may protect the heart and brain but can eventually lead to ischemic injury of the kidney and bowel resulting in kidney failure and further vascular injury and loss ... nitrate/nitrite and PGE2 levels, plasma creatinine and GOT, organ damages, survival rates and MABP in the prolonged hemorrhagic shock rat model 4.2 Materials and Methods 4.2.1 Animals and reagents ... consequences of secondary brain injury and severe hemorrhage During traumatic brain injury (Sinz et al., 1999) and hemorrhagic shock (Szabo and Billiar 1999, Shinoda and Whittle, 2001), there is induction...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... 24, 48 and 72 hours in different 60 groups of rats Figure 4.4.1 Hemotoxylin and eosin stain of Kidneys 62 Figure 4.4.2 Hemotoxylin and eosin stain of Lungs 63 Figure 4.4.3 Hemotoxylin and eosin ... saline-treated prolonged hemorrhagic shock rats The levels of brain and plasma nitrate/nitrite and PGE2, and plasma creatinine and GOT, were significantly lower in AG-treated prolonged hemorrhagic ... conservative fluids, NO donor and NOS inhibitors Role of nitric oxide (NO) and PGE2 in prolonged hemorrhagic shocked rats and therapeutic effects of conservative fluids, NOS and COX-2 inhibitors Role...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... (MT) and 43 (LT) mm This yielded volumes of 700 cm3 (ST, MT) and 500 cm3 (LT) respectively The substrate employed was a mixture of sand and silt (2:1 v/v) to facilitate root extraction and cleaning ... Shoot morphology and root morphology and topology For the morphological characterisation of shoots and roots and the topological characterisation of roots, 22 seedlings were taken randomly per type ... Tables II and III (n = 22) AR and VR were about 38% and 88% higher, respectively, in LT than in ST, whereas DR was about 50% higher in ST than in LT and DRW was about 50% higher in LT and ST than...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... promoters of many primary response genes are marked by CpG islands, which have low histone density and not assemble into stable nucleosomes, and these promoters are induced independently of chromatin ... signal transduction and gene regulation control diverse and fundamental biological processes This was underscored at the 2008 meeting We look forward to the next meeting in 2010, and anticipate follow-up ... restraining the expression of pro-myeloid factors (such as Gfi1), and acting directly to induce the recombinase (Rag) genes and thereby recombination at the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus Interestingly,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:22

... understanding of the heart as a muscular pump and of the interaction between the heart and the vasculature The concepts of contractility, preload and afterload are paramount to this understanding and ... and will be the focus and repeating theme throughout the text A sound understanding of cardiac physiology begins with basic understanding of cardiac anatomy and of the physiology of muscular ... bundles of myosin strands with each strand having a tail, a hinge and a head region The tail regions bind to each other in the central portion of the filament and the Page of 23 strands are aligned...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... L-NAME + AlCl3- and L-NAME-treated) and control (shamoperated) animals (p ＜ 0.05) ∙Indicates a statistically significant difference between treated (L-NAME + AlCl3- and L-NAMEtreated) and AlCl3-treated ... LNAME + AlCl3- and L-NAME-treated) and control (sham-operated) animals (p ＜ 0.05) ∙Indicates a statistically significant difference between treated (L-NAME + AlCl3- and L-NAME-treated) and AlCl3-treated ... treated (AlCl3- and LNAME-treated) and control (sham-operated) animals (p ＜ 0.05) ∙Indicates a statistically significant difference between treated (L-NAME + AlCl3- and L-NAME-treated) and AlCl3-treated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... modification of DNA bases via both oxidation and nitration reactions and, (ii) the induction of nicks and breaks in the DNA strand (Szabo & Ohshima, 1997) DNA single-strand breakage is the obligatory trigger ... cardiovascular lab, for their technical support and resources And to my closest friends John, Pam, Nursha and Rangga, thank you for always being there for me and listening to my incessant complaints ... evidence implicating NO and/ or H2S as an effector in sepsis, as well as results obtained with various pharmacologic interventions directed at NO and/ or H2S in animal and/ or clinical studies The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:16

... transfected with P450c17 and cyt b5 3H-Labeled preg, 17a-OHpreg, and DHEA, used as standards, showed elution peaks at 4.70, 2.30 and 2.50 min, respectively (Fig 2) In both porcine and human assays using ... and analyzed androstadienol formation from each substrate As observed in Fig 3, the biosynthesis of androstadienol in humans (A) and pigs (B) does not require prior formation of 17a-OH-preg and ... that human and porcine P450c17 have similar catalytic activities and that, in both species, P450c17 is involved in the biosynthesis of androstadienol Effect of cyt b5 on DHEA and androstadienol...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... cytokines and chemokines from primary brain pericytes constitutively and after LPS stimulation Brain pericytes were stimulated for 4, 8, and 24 h with LPS (0.1 and ug/ml) Media was collected and cytokine ... pericyte cultures with 0.1 and ug/ml LPS resulted in significant release of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1a, TNF-a, IL-3, IL-9 and IL-13 (4 h, h and 24 h) and anti-inflammatory cytokines ... nitric oxide and nitrosative stress in primary brain pericytes after LPS stimulation Brain pericytes were stimulated for 4, 8, and 24 h with LPS (0.1 and ug/ml), media collected, and analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... 3:17 tant and mixed with 2.0 ml each of acid reagent and diphenylamine reagent Simultaneously standard and blank were treated in the same way Mix all the tubes, cover with marbles and placed ... care instrument designed for rapid and reliable measurements of microalbumin, C – reactive protein and HbA1c) supplied from JT Rapid diagnostics, Trinidad and Tobago (Axis Shield PoCAS, Norway, ... Blood and urine samples were kept on ice prior centrifugation All the serum and urine samples were stored at -20°C The lipid profile and sugar was done with automated instrument The HbA1C, CRP and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... (MUC2, MUC5AC, MUC5B, and MUC19) are found in the lung Of these, MUC5AC and MUC5B are the major respiratory mucins present in secretions from goblet cells and sub-mucosal glands, respectively [6] ... CA) and chloroform from A549 cells The RNA was incubated with 10 mM dNTP, 0.1 M DTT, μl random hexamer (1 pmole) and μl SuperScript II (200 U/μl Invitrogen, Charlsbad, CA) at 42°C for 50 min, and ... cytosol (C) and membrane (M) fractions as described under "Materials and Methods." PKC isoforms were detected by Western blotting NOR-1 (0.5 mM) induced migration of PKCα and PKCδ but not PKCγ and PKCε...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... of BMI and systemic levels of leptin and adiponectin with levels of exhaled NO and exhaled 8-isoprostanes in subjects with stable asthma and healthy controls In subjects with asthma, BMI and the ... The mean post-bronchodilator FEV1 and FVC percent predicted were respectively 73% (95% C.I 70 – 79) and 81% (95% C.I 75 – 86) Clinical measures of asthma severity and control The average Juniper ... study was to examine the association between BMI and adipokines (leptin and adiponectin) with exhaled NO in asthmatics and healthy controls, and to determine whether BMI-related changes in exhaled...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... ’Dampness’ at home and its association with airway, Carlstedt et al Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2011, 9:8 http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/9/1/8 Page of nose, and skin symptoms ... has never been used in bedrooms in Swedish homes and is often confused with Carlstedt et al Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2011, 9:8 http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/9/1/8 Page ... would have to be centralized and would therefore not be suitable for a study design using the everyday Carlstedt et al Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2011, 9:8 http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/9/1/8...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... out the practical work and drafted the manuscript WW participated in the practical work and discussions JR designed this study and edited the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... described previously [5] and above, the results described here indicate a similar efficacy for both application schemes All five above described mice had been mated and were fertile The offspring ... 238.5 ± 124.4 days after AAV-MOCS1 injection and cPMP withdrawal at day 40 after birth (figure 2, green line) All animals of this group were mated and all but one were fertile Again, the offspring...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... first examination and saved for follow-up control examinations Radiographs were performed immediately before treatment and at 10 days, and 6, 9, and 24 months after treatment 66 Clinical Measurements ... probing was recorded and the presence of plaque was registred mesially, buccally, distally, and lingually Data were obtained at baseline before treatment and at 10 days, and 6,9, and 24 months after ... treated by EHA and autologous grafting, males and females, all non smokers, with a mean age of 43,8 years for females, 40,0 years for males and 42 years for all the group, in good health and with a...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:35

... located between the parallels 16 and 12, from Quang Nam to Khanh Hoa The typhoon season is between September and November, and is the most intense in October and November There are to typhoons ... multi-directional wind pressures and gust wind Typhoons and low pressure circulations associated with inundation have caused short-term and long-term damages to national socio-economy and have negative impacts ... crops and the environment In summary, typhoons and inundation are one of the many factors causing hunger and poverty hindering the socio-economic development of Vietnam Therefore, planning and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

... Cambodia • Lao PDR • Thailand • Vietnam 33 Land and population Population Density Population Land area Cambodia 15,416,429 181,035 85 Lao PDR 6,834,345 236.800 29 Thailand 63,723,953 513,000 124 ... group and country 1980 and 2005 FAO (2009) 15 Meat consumption and share of net imports in consumption, least-developed countries, 1961–2005 FAO 2009 16 Meat consumption by region, 2000 and 2050 ... its human population with out destroying the enviroment and depleting natural resources???” Land used by region and country group, 1961,1991 and 2007, (FAO, 2009) Food security The World Food Summit...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 10:35

... oxidant, and recirculation of the solubilized excess sludge, containing readily biodegradable carbon, in a biological treatment system (Chu et al., 2008; Cui and Jahng, 2004; Kamiya and Hirotsuji, ... with ozonation and phosphorus adsorption: A, previous study (Suzuki et al., 2006); B, this study - 136 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 MATERIALS AND METHODS A ... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 MLSS was measured according to the Standard Methods (1995) To determine soluble TOC (S-TOC), NH4-N, NO2+3-N, NO2-N, and PO4-P, water...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38