Hydrostatic pulmonary edema is a common complication of congestive heart failure, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is a mitogen for type II alveolar epithelial and microvascular cells. We utilized the isolated perfused rat lung model to produce hydrostatic pulmonary edema by varying the left atrial and pulmonary capillary pressure. Pretreatment ...

Morita, Richard Y. (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and Roger D. Haight. Malic dehydrogenase activity at 101 C under hydrostatic pressure. J. Bacteriol. 83:1341-1346. 1962.-No malic dehydrogenase activity was found to occur at 101 C at various hydrostatic pressures from 1 to 700 atm. However, activity was demonstrated with hydrostatic pressures above 700 atm, with optimal activity at 1,300 atm...

Diamond anvil cell techniques are now well established and powerful methods for measuring materials properties to very high pressure. However, high pressure resistivity measurements are challenging because the electrical contacts attached to the sample have to survive to extreme stress conditions. Until recently, experiments in a diamond anvil cell were mostly limited to non-hydrostatic or quas...

In order to compute the thermal deformation of the hydrostatic thrust bearing in the heavy type CNC equipments, a numerical research concerning temperature field of multi-pad hydrostatic thrust bearing having sector cavity, rectangular cavity, Ishaped cavity and ellipse cavity is described. Three-dimensional temperature field of gap fluid between the rotation worktable and the base has been sim...

INTRODUCTION The ordinary hydrodynamic bearings have been replaced by the hydrostatic bearings in the application of machine tools in recent years. For the hydrodynamic bearings, the journal and the bearing surface are separated by the sliding action with a wedge pressure-generating mechanism to develop a pressure within the bearing. It has advantages of simple structure and cheap cost. However...

This paper presents a new methodology, apparatus design, and the experimental results of ongoing research into the measurement of the mechanical properties of musculoskeletal tissue at the cellular level. A microchamber was constructed that provides a controlled hydrostatic pressure environment for these cells where optical sectioning, via epifluorescence microscopy, was used to acquire volume ...

Global existence of weak and strong solutions to the quasi-hydrostatic primitive equations is studied in this paper. This model, that derives from the full non-hydrostatic model for geophysical fluid dynamics in the zero-limit of the aspect ratio, is more realistic than the classical hydrostatic model, since the traditional approximation that consists in neglecting a part of the Coriolis force ...

For flow conduits with mild slope and considerably large vertical curvatures the hydrostatic distribution of the pressure may be used for design proposes. However, for the spillway chutes actual pressure load over the steep slope beds with small vertical curvatures may differ from the hydrostatic pressure values. The differences in pressure load on curved bed chutes are mainly because of the ce...

the track stiffness experienced by a train will vary along the track. sometimes the stiffness variation may be very large within a short distance. one example is when an unsupported sleeper is hanging in the rail. track stiffness is then, locally at that sleeper, very low. at insulated joints the bending stiffness of the rail has a discontinuity implying a discontinuity also of the track stiffn...

Background: Oocyte maturation is usually defined as the period of progression from the first to the second meiotic arrest and involves coordinated nuclear and cytoplasmic modification. Ca2+ signals are known as important regulators of oocyte maturation. Extracellular Ca2+ is important for first polar body formation, normal meiosis kinetics, and for preserving the chromosome and spindle configur...