BACKGROUND Arrhythmia occurrence is a variable but serious concern of cell therapy for treating heart failure. Using a rat postinfarction chronic heart failure model, we compared skeletal myoblast (SMB) with bone marrow cell (BMC) injection to highlight donor cell-specific, late-phase arrhythmogenesis and the underlying factors. METHODS AND RESULTS SMBs or BMCs derived from male GFP-transgeni...

Food material shape is often closely related to its quality. Due to the demands of high quality, automated food shape inspection has become an important need for the food industry. Currently, accuracy and speed are two major problems for food shape inspection with computer vision. Therefore, in this study, a fast and accurate computer-vision based feature extraction and classification system wa...

A two-tier optimizing control strategy of a simulated moving bed (SMB) process has been studied on the basis of repetitive control. Repetitive model predictive control (RMPC) of product purities is carried out in the lower tier and the optimum feed and desorbent flow rates and the length of switching period are determined in the upper tier. Both of them are based on a fundamental SMB model whic...

This work is focused at understanding the interaction of H2S with Myoglobin (Mb), in particular the Sulfmyoglobin (SMb) product, whose physiological role is controversial and not well understood. The scattering curves, Guinier, Kratky, Porod and P(r) plots were analyzed for oxy-Mb and oxy-Hemoglobin I (oxyHbI) in the absence and presence of H2S, using Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS...

The freshwater flux from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) to the ocean is of considerable importance to the global eustatic sea level rise. A physical modelling approach using SnowModel, a state-of-the-art snow-evolution modelling system that includes four submodels (MicroMet, EnBal, SnowPack, and SnowTran-3D), was used to quantify the 1995–2007 GrIS surface massbalance (SMB), including freshwate...

Sm proteins constitute the common core of spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoproteins. Although Sm proteins are known to be methylated at specific arginine residues within the C-terminal arginine-glycine dipeptide (RG) repeats, the biological relevance of these modifications remains unknown. In this study, a tissue-specific function of arginine methylation of the SmB protein was identified in...

“ICT use in Small and Medium Business in Poland. Growth factors and inhibitors” is a publication describing information technology penetration and change factors for SMB market. The basic goal of the publication was to present current picture of ICT use in transition economy of the European emerging market like Poland. This publication is dedicated to: a) policy makers specializing in SMB on em...

Chromatographic separations are an emerging technology for the separation of high value products, particularly in the area of pharmaceutics, food, and ne chemicals. The simulated moving bed (SMB) process as a continuous chromatographic separation process is an interesting alternative to conventional batch chromatography, and gained more and more impact recently. The SMB process is realized by c...

Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatography is an important technology for separating chiral compounds, but it can also be used in challenging purifications to remove impurities that are structurally similar to target compounds. Bioxel Pharma, Inc. has developed and implemented a fully automated, high throughput SMB process to remove cephalomannine from paclitaxel, an active pharmaceutical ingred...

1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR THE ROTATOR CUFF TEAR Y. Morisawa, T. Sadahiro, Dept, of Orth, Surg, Kochi Prefectural Hata-Kenmin Hospital, Flec Clinic, Kochi, Japan MRI observation of the rotator cuff tear showing the high signal intensity on the supraspinatus muscle belly (SMB) was examined before and after surgery. The subjects were eleven patients with the massive and global rotator cuff ...