BACKGROUND Ultrafiltration for heart failure may reduce costs associated with acute heart failure by decreasing rehospitalization rates compared to intravenous diuretics. METHODS AND RESULTS We developed a decision-analytic model to explore the clinical outcomes and associated costs of ultrafiltration compared to intravenous diuretics for index and subsequent acute heart failure hospitalizati...

Ultrafiltration is an important research tool in colloid chemical and in certain types of biological investigation. However, in spite of the many years that ultrafiltration has been used as a research tool, the phase of the subject concerning the ultrafiltra tion of electrolytes from systems containing electrically charged colloids has been lacking in both experimental data and a theoretical ba...

1. Introduction Ultrafiltration is used for protein concentration and buffer exchange in the downstream processing of essentially all recombinant protein products [1]. Although ultrafiltration has traditionally been viewed as a convective pressure-driven process, with the separation determined on the basis of size, solute transport through ultrafiltration membranes is also strongly influenced b...

The contribution of peritoneal cavity lymphatic absorption to ultrafiltration kinetics and solute clearances in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis was evaluated in patients with normal (group 1) and high (group 2) peritoneal permeability X area during 4-h exchanges using 2 liters 2.5% dextrose dialysis solution with 30 g added albumin. Cumulative lymphatic drainage in all continuous ambu...

Milk protein concentrate powders (MPC) with improved rehydration properties are often manufactured using processing steps, such as acidification and high-pressure processing, and with addition of other ingredients, such as sodium chloride, during their production. These steps are known to increase the amount of serum caseins or modify the mineral equilibrium, hence improving solubility of the r...

Food allergy is a common disease with the treatment of choice being complete avoidance of the incriminated food. In cow's milk allergy a hypoallergenic milk substitute is necessary during infancy and childhood. Hypoallergenic formulas are produced through enzymatic hydrolysis of different sources such as bovine casein or whey followed by further processing such as heat treatment and/or ultrafil...

Polioviruses and rotaviruses are potential indicators of sewage pollution of water and shellfish. Several methods for detecting these viruses in oysters were assessed. Elution-precipitation involving Catfloc for clarification and skim milk for subsequent flocculation resulted in the recovery of an average of 79% of poliovirus type 1 and 37% of rotavirus SA-11 from oyster homogenates inoculated ...

molecular size and containing more carbohydrate (80% (w!w)), Many extensive works have been reported on the characterization of the epitopes recognized by HMFG-1 and HMFG2.3,4・7-iO) It has been shown that HMGP-C was recognized by both antibodies9). However, whether each HMGP in hurnan milk carries the epitopes or they occur only in some species has not been elucidated. In addition, the nature o...