Like a tourist without a map, tumor-fighting T cells have a hard time finding their destination without directions. According to Clark et al. (page 2221), dismantling these directions helps skin cancer cells hide from killer T cells. To enter the skin, T cells must grab on to the adhesive molecule E-selectin, which is expressed on the endothelial cells lining blood vessels in the skin. The auth...

The thesis describes an implementation of a method estimating the heart beat rate based on an analysis of the color changes measured in a video of a human face. We use a 3D facial landmark tracker that allows to extract a stable region on a face needed to acquire a robust measurement of the color changes. A simple model is proposed to approximate a linear projection of the color signal by sinus...

The pumping action of the heart varies considerably on a beat-to-beat basis and is ultimately determined by the extent of ventricular myocyte shortening during systole. The use of isolated myocardial preparations has provided new insights about the subcellular factors that modulate power output of the ventricles.

OBJECTIVES Elevated beat-to-beat QT interval variability (QTV) has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.The aim of this study was to investigate interlead differences in beat-to-beat QTV of 12-lead ECG and its relationship with the T wave amplitude. METHODS Short-term 12-lead ECGs of 72 healthy subjects (17 f, 38 ± 14 years; 55 m, 39 ± 13 years) were studied. ...

Abstract Background/Introduction Signals in Electrophysiology cases are often noisy despite laboratory shielding and filtering, current noise-reduction methods suboptimal. Template matching can identify a “nearest type” of electrogram, but libraries signal shapes may be unavailable. Beat averaging reduce noise obscures beat-to-beat variations is not optimal to analyze dynamically changing signa...

OBJECTIVES There are no data in the literature with regard to the acute effects of different styles of music on the geometric indices of heart rate variability. In this study, we evaluated the acute effects of relaxant baroque and excitatory heavy metal music on the geometric indices of heart rate variability in women. METHODS We conducted this study in 21 healthy women ranging in age from 18...

Anaesthesia and minor surgery to place electrocardiogram recording electrodes in the short-horned sculpin caused a decrease in mean normal beat (R-R) interval and heart rate variability (HRV), measured as the standard deviation in the R-R interval (SDRR). Mean R-R interval increased to a steady state value (1.9+/-2.9 s) 72 h post-surgery, but SDRR took 120 h to stabilise (0.56+/-0.09 s). Power ...

• The Polar V800 provides acceptable agreement with a Televet 100 ECG in static horses. Second degree AV block can be removed from HRV data using 0.9 s correction. requires correction of 0.4 for the best data. Actiheart 5 produces full waveform which allows manual Beat detection is interchangeable 100. Heart rate variability (HRV) commonly used metric animal science to quantify an aspect physio...

This paper provides a validation approach for a microwave Doppler Radar system used for heartbeat detection. The proposed system is tested at 16 GHz with several transmitted power, simultaneously with a pc-based electrocardiogram. Obtained results show accurate detection for the heartbeat signal in terms of heartbeat rate and heart rate variability.