We have previously shown that myocardial infarction (MI) immediately treated with an epicardial construct containing stromal vascular fraction (SVF) from adipose tissue preserved microvascular function and left ventricle contractile mechanisms. In order to evaluate a more clinically relevant condition, we investigated the cardiac recovery potential of an SVF construct implanted onto an establis...

Background: Anxiety and depression are both predisposing and consequent factor in patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Thus relief of anxiety and depression has an important role in reducing possibility of further MI and also quality of life promotion. Aim: The aim of the current study was to determine the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on the anxiety and depression in patien...

Spatial and temporal analyses are critical to understand the pattern of myocardial infarction (MI) hospitalizations over space and time, and to identify their underlying determinants. In this paper, we analyze MI hospitalizations in Calgary from 2004 to 2013, stratified by age and gender. First, a seasonal trend decomposition analyzes the seasonality; then a linear regression models the trend c...

A major problem in the area of link discovery is the discovery of hidden organizational structure such as groups and their members [5]. The group detection task can be further qualified into (1) discovering hidden members of known groups (or group extension) and (2) identifying completely unknown groups. Adibi et al. [1] describe the KOJAK Group Finder (GF) system which uses a novel mutual info...

introduction: to compare the effects of 0.05% sodium fluoride (naf) mouthrinse, gc tooth mousse and gc mi paste plus on white spot formation inhibition. materials and methods: thirty pairs of extracted human premolars were cut in half mesio-distally with a disc. the teeth were coated with nail varnish, except a part of the buccal and/or lingual enamel, which was used as the test area, and then ...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the specificity of motor imagery (MI) difficulties in children with CP. METHOD Performance of 22 children with CP was compared to a gender and age matched control group. MI ability was measured with the Hand Laterality Judgment (HLJ) task, examining specifically the direction of rotation (DOR) effect, and the Praxis Imagery Questionnaire (PIQ). RESUL...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Implantation of cell-sheets into damaged regions of the heart after myocardial infarction (MI) has been shown to improve heart function. However, the tissue morphology following application of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CM) has not been studied in detail at the level afforded by electron microscopy. We hypothesized that increasing the n...

The purpose of this study is too investigate the distribution, the number, and the survival time of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), implanted in rats with myocardial infarction (MI), that were initially pretreated with low dose of LPS. Adult rats were randomly divided into control group, the MI group, 0.1, 1 and 5 mg/kg LPS-pretreated groups. Following the injection of CM-Dil la...

this study was conducted to determine whether precordial st segment depression in admission electrocardiogram (ecg) in patients with acute phase inferior myocardial infarction (mi) eligible for thrombolytic therapy and subsequent angiographic evaluation, influences the incidence of left anterior descending artery (lad) disease. 31 consecutively admitted patients were entered in our study. 20 pa...

OBJECTIVES To analyze and compare quantitatively regional myocardial functional abnormalities of the left ventricle by pulsed Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) in patients with unstable angina (UA) and prior myocardial infarction (MI), and to explore the value of systolic velocity and time intervals in evaluating regional left ventricular systolic dysfunction. METHODS Patients with coronary artery...