The development of large-scale human liver scaffolds equipped with interconnected flow channels in three-dimensional space offers a promising strategy for the advancement tissue engineering. Tissue-engineered scaffold must be blood-compatible to address demand clinical transplantable tissue. Here, we demonstrate construction 3-D macro using selective laser sintering (SLS) fabrication method. ac...

A simple microprocessor controlled mini-electrochemical (EC) instrument integrating with square wave voltammetry (SWV) was designed nd fabricated. Direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) was exploited in the circuit design to generate a linear and very low frequency canning waveform for SWV. An ultra-low bias current, a high performance operational amplifier, a lock-in amplifier, and severa...

OBJECTIVE To identify whether saliva supernatant miR-21 can serve as a novel potential biomarker in patients with esophageal cancer (EC). METHODS 32 patients with EC and 16 healthy controls were recruited in this study. Total RNA was extracted from saliva supernatant samples for measurement of miR-21 levels using RT-qPCR and relationships between miR-21 levels and clinical characteristics of ...

background: evidence shows that the mortality rate of esophageal cancer (ec) in ardabil province is among the highest worldwide. studies on the epidemiological profile of ec in ardabil are scarce. we aim to study the characteristics of ec in ardabil using data from the recently established ardabil cancer registry (acr). materials and methods: this study has been accomplished based on data colle...

Evolutionary Computation (EC) is inspired from by evolution that explores the solution space by gene inheritance, mutation, and selection of the fittest candidate solutions. Since their inception in the 1960s, Evolutionary Computation has been used in various hard and complex optimization problems in search and optimization such as: combinatorial optimization, functions optimization with and wi...

The construction of well-controllable in vitro models of physiological and pathological vascular endothelium remains a fundamental challenge in tissue engineering and drug development. Here, we present an approach for forming a synthetic endothelial extracellular matrix (ECM) that closely resembles that of the native structure by locally depositing basement membrane materials onto type 1 collag...

Changes in microbial characteristics in soils with increasing salinity were measured in 30 soil samples belonging to Kattikhel and Dargai soil series occuring in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of North West Pakistan during 2009. Microbial characteristics including microbial biomass C, microbial biomass N, C/N ratio in microbial biomass, N mineralization, nitrification, rate of CO2 evolution and cumulative ...

This work aimed to evaluate the physiological behavior and growth of jurema-preta seedlings under salinity conditions. The experiment was conducted at Forestry Nursery Academic Unit Engineering/UFCG, with plants kept in 'Leonard' pots. treatments were distributed a completely randomized design, five levels electrical conductivity (EC) nutrient solution (0.5; 2.0; 3.5; 5.0 6.5 dS m-1) four repet...

The conductor of n positive integer numbers a l,a2, ... ,an' whose greatest coII1mon divisor is equal'to I, is'defmed as the th.e minimal K, such that for every m ~K , the equation a1x 1+a2X 2+ ... +an Xn=m, h!ls a solution over the nOI}negative integers. In this notewe give a polYIlomial aigorithm computing'a close bound ~ for the conductor K o( n given positive integers, when n is fixed. The ...