We propose a blood coagulation testing method based on the measurement of the flow velocity near the bottom surface of a microchannel by using a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based microfluidic device. We were able to distinguish the coagulation ability in different human plasma samples by observing the flow velocity change caused by coagulation that occurred at an interface between a plasma ...

A comparison method for the determination (without sample pre-concentration) of uranium in ore by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) has been performed. The experiments were conducted using three procedures: matrix matching, plasma optimization, and internal standardization for three emission lines of uranium. Three wavelengths of Sm were tested as internal stand...

Two pharmacokinetic methods are used primarily to assess systematic bioavailability of orally dosed water-soluble compounds in vivo, but there have been no direct comparisons of the estimates obtained. The "area under the curve" (AUC) method employs a single oral dose of probe compound(s) followed by multiple blood sampling to obtain plasma concentration time curves. Separate injection of probe...

The bootstrap technology introduced by [1] has wide applications, particularly, in regression analysis. It has been used by researchers to construct empirical distributions for estimates of the regression coefficients. In case of outliers in the data, the classical bootstrap procedure fails to give us fine results even if robust regression estimates are used. In this paper we introduced a new b...

BACKGROUND The gamma camera uptake method with Tc-99m-DTPA is simple and less time consuming for the determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). However, its diagnostic accuracy is debated. Gates' method and predicted creatinine clearance method were compared with plasma clearance method with Tc-99m-DTPA for the measurement of GFR. MATERIALS AND METHODS Tc-99m-DTPA renography was p...

A microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) for the separation of blood plasma from whole blood is described. The device can separate plasma from whole blood and quantify plasma proteins in a single step. The μPAD was fabricated using the wax dipping method, and the final device was composed of a blood separation membrane combined with patterned Whatman No.1 paper. Blood separation memb...

The phenomenon of total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) was placed in the context of optical microscopy by Daniel Axelrod over three decades ago. TIRF microscopy exploits the properties of an evanescent electromagnetic field to optically section sample regions in the close vicinity of the substrate where the field is induced. The first applications in cell biology targeted investigation...