Understanding the critical factors that govern recovery of the hematopoietic system from stress, such as during anticancer therapy and bone marrow transplantation, is of clinical significance. We investigated the importance of the prosurvival proteins myeloid cell leukemia-1 (MCL-1) and B-cell lymphoma-extra large (BCL-XL) in stem/progenitor cell survival and fitness during hematopoietic recove...

The avian origin A/H7N9 influenza virus causes high admission rates (>99%) and mortality (>30%), with ultimately favourable outcomes ranging from rapid recovery to prolonged hospitalization. Using a multicolour assay for monitoring adaptive and innate immunity, here we dissect the kinetic emergence of different effector mechanisms across the spectrum of H7N9 disease and recovery. We find that a...

background: transplantation approaches are interventions currently available to apply to the devastating problem of spinal cord injury (sci). olfactory ensheathing cell (oec) and embryonic stem cell (esc) are considered to be promising therapeutic strategies . in this study, we compared the potential use of oecs and neurally pre-differentiated escs in contusion spinal cord. methods: oecs were h...

Rats were given injections s.c. of mammary adenocarcinoma cells which developed into undifferentiated carcinomas within a few days. The animals were either left alone or were stressed by restraint for 3 h a day for 11 days and then left for 12 days undisturbed to recover. During this schedule, some animals were sacrificed immediately after the 11-day stress period, whereas others were allowed t...

introduction one of the most important pre-processing steps in optical coherence tomography (oct) is reducing speckle noise, resulting from multiple scattering of tissues, which degrades the quality of oct images. materials and methods the present study focused on speckle noise reduction and edge detection techniques. statistical filters with different masks and noise variances were applied on ...

one of the goals of financial reporting is to provide the useful information in order to facilitate the decision making. accounting information system is of high importance for the users to make specific decisions. the information should be analyzed to present the valuable information to the investors so that in this paper, the relative content and return additive with cash recovery have been a...

background: platelet preparations have been used for a wide variety of clinical applications such as hemorrhage, tissue engineering and cellular therapy. platelet concentrates can be prepared by the apheresis method or from the whole blood using the buffy-coat or platelet-rich plasma methods. the purpose of this study was to compare four variations of platelet-rich plasma method based on double...

This paper presents a QoS oriented Data Link Control (DLC) framework for transporting Constant Bit Rate (CBR) traffic over wireless ATM links. Data link control is usually omitted in fixed ATM networks because cell corruption due to channel error is extremely rare for reliable media like copper wire and optical fiber. However, for wireless, higher bit error rates are quite common due to shadowi...

A simple method, using only neutral detergent for surface cleaning, produces reversible glass–glass bonding to enable use of a glass microfluidic device repeatedly and switching microchannel from closed cell cultivation open recovery.

• The thermal management strategies of PEMFC are reviewed. waste heat recovery pathways presented. challenges and prospects the aforementioned areas discussed. Despite that Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) is considered to be an efficient power device; around half energy produced from electrochemical reaction dissipated as due irreversibility cathodic reaction, Ohmic resistance, mass ...