Kidney transplantation (KT) is regarded as the most effective therapeutic approach for people with end-stage renal disease. However, a number of reasons - constant increase in incidence diseases contributing to formation and development chronic kidney disease, well continuing shortage donor organs 78-95% patients need transplant do not receive necessary treatment, waiting list stretches several...

This review article describes fundamental aspects of cell membrane-inspired phospholipid polymers and their usefulness in the development of medical devices. Since the early 1990s, polymers composed of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) units have been considered in the preparation of biomaterials. MPC polymers can provide an artificial cell membrane structure at the surface and ser...

Of the patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy on a heart transplant list, 95% do not receive a donor heart. Due to this severe shortage of donor organs, an artificial replacement heart has been pursued for several decades. To date, 10 patients have received an Abiocor artificial replacement heart (Abiomed, Inc, Danvers, Mass), the latest artificial heart device available. Anesthetic management ...

Shape memory alloys provide new insights for the design of biomaterials in bioengineering for the design of artificial organs and advanced surgical instruments, since they have specific characteristics and unusual properties. This article will examine (a) the four properties of shape memory alloys, (b) medical applications with high potential for improving the present and future quality of life...

Damage or loss of a tissue or organ is common, costly, and tragic. Advances in mechanical artificial organs and organ transplantation have improved the treatment of organ failure, and advances in molecular immunology, tissue engineering, and stem cell biology offer the promise of even better therapeutic modalities for treating organ failure in the future. Enhancement of immune tolerance of tran...

background :  the aim of this paper was to study the prevalence and intensity of anisakids lar­vae in the long tail tuna fish captured from iranian shores of persian gulf. methods : different organs including skin, abdominal cavity, stomach and intestinal contents, stom­ach sub serous tissues, liver, spleen, gonads and 20 grams of muscles of 100 long tail tuna fish ( thannus tonggol ) caught fr...

Luís Amaral João Figueirinhas The CeFEMA newsletter intents to disseminate the research activities in materials science and condensed matter physics developed in the Center to a wide scientific and non-scientific community. In this third number, some of the most recent achievements or ongoing projects are highlighted. Nanocomposite and nanostructured membranes for applications from water treatm...

Filled and cross-linked elastomeric rubbers are versatile network materials with a multitude of applications ranging from artificial organs and biomedical devices to cushions, coatings, adhesives, interconnects, and seismic-isolation, thermal, and electrical barriers. External factors such as mechanical stress, temperature fluctuations, or radiation are known to create chemical changes in such ...