To provide a morphometric basis for any mathematical modeling of the coronary vasculature, data on the network of coronary capillary blood vessels and the topology of the arteriolar supply and venular drainage relative to the capillaries are presented. The diameters, lengths, and branching patterns of the coronary capillary blood vessels in the right and left ventricles of four pigs were measur...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether in vivo capillary microscopy of the lower lip mucosa can be used to assess microvascular disease in systemic sclerosis. METHODS Thirteen patients with systemic sclerosis and 11 healthy control subjects were studied by conventional nailfold capillary microscopy and labial capillaroscopy. The following parameters were analysed: loop length; loop width (maximum ...

isolation of cell free fetal dna (cffdna) from maternal serum usually leads to very low concentrations of dna impeding further resolving through conventional methods of electrophoresis. although several protocols have been described for capillary electrophoresis (ce) of double stranded dna, they usually need using special polymers or coated capillaries which degrade over time. herein, we propos...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of glass capillary micropipette (gcm) as a vessel forvitrification of bovine oocytes. cumulus-oocyte complexes (cocs) were obtained from slaughter-house andwashed 5 to 6 times in the washing medium (tcm-199 + 20% fbs) and randomly assigned to treatment andcontrol group. in the first step of vitrification, cocs were exposed to first vitrification...

PURPOSE Tumor vasculature provides the infrastructure by which malignant tissue can be nourished; therefore, targeting angiogenesis may be an effective means of treating cancer. We showed previously that SNB19 glioblastoma cells modulate bovine retinal endothelial cells in cocultures to form capillary-like network structures, that matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) expression is critical for en...

PURPOSE To establish adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy as a method to detect and characterize microscopic signs of diabetic retinopathy in capillaries and cone photoreceptors in the parafovea. METHODS Recently, adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) has enabled noninvasive assessment of photoreceptors, capillaries, and leukocytes in the retinas of live human subject...

human interferons (ifns) are key cytokines secreted by immune system. they have several effects such as antiviral and anti tumors activity, activating immune cells and healing of multiple sclerosis. the type ifns present in humans are α, β and υ. ifn β is a polypeptide, normally produced by fibroblasts and seems to be more species-specific than ifn . structural properties of i fns are importan...

two capillary zone electrophoresis (cze) methods were developed in this study, one using an acidic buffer (sodium citrate ph = 2.5) and the other using a basic buffer (sodium tetraborate ph = 9.8). the two methods were compared on the basis of repeatability and reproducibility of results and the cze method developed with the basic buffer was then selected for further studies. the method was ful...

one of the problems encountered in ce separations of basic compounds is the adsorption of analytes onto the negatively charged capillary wall which could lead to poor repeatability of migration time and peak area. additionally, separation of enantiomers of chiral of basic drugs is commonly carried out in low ph buffer which contributes to strong ionic interaction of the cationic drug ions with ...

background and objectives: fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) is an established out- patient procedure used in primary diagnosis of palpable thyroid lesions. a modified technique fine needle capillary sampling (fncs) obviates the need of suction, is less painful, patient friendly and reported to overcome the problem of inadequate and bloody specimens. the aim of our study was to compare the...