In this paper, we describe how to enhance the quality of brush-style-font expression, which are scratched look and blurred look, with regard to a form as a pattern of a Chinese character. The previous version of the system uses only a parameter similar to pen pressure, however actual calligraphic art requires more various factors in order to realize the expression. Our novel approach considers ...

It is now firmly established that disaccharidases are an intrinsic part of the mammalian intestinal (1) and renal (2) brush border. Isolated brush borders of hamster and rabbit intestine (3-6) are studded with knobs (65 A in diameter) or doughnut-shaped particles (45-110 A in diameter) respectively, when viewed as negatively stained preparations . Isolated brush borders of rabbit kidney do not ...

OBJECTIVE Mechanical techniques, including scaling with metal, plastic, or ultrasonic instruments, rubber cup polishing, air-powder abrasive system and brushing with a conventional or a rotating brush, have been used for the debridement of dental implants. Recently, rotating brushes with titanium bristles (titanium brush) have been introduced for the debridement of implant surface when peri-imp...

Two assays were developed to quantitate the adherence of an Escherichia coli strain (RDEC-1) known to colonize the mucosal surface of the small intestine of rabbits to brush borders isolated from rabbit intestinal epithelial cells. In the first assay, the mean adherence per rabbit brush border was determined by counting the number of organisms adhering to each of 40 brush borders under phase mi...

Technologies ranging from solvent extraction and drug delivery to tissue engineering are beginning to benefit from the unique ability of “smart polymers” to undergo controllable structural changes in response to external stimuli. The prototype is poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (P(NIPAAm)) which exhibits an abrupt and reversible hydrophilic to hydrophobic transition above its lower critical solutio...

Conductive transport of chloride ion is important in controlling ion and fluid secretion by exocrine tissues. The current study was directed at identifying proteins in the intestinal brush-border membrane that may be involved with conductive chloride transport. Reaction of total brush-border membrane protein with phenyl-isothiocyanate inhibited conductive chloride transport into brush-border me...

Computerized oral brush biopsy became commercially available in 1999. The objectives of this study were to provide senior dental students with the clinical competency to perform oral brush biopsy and to evaluate the extent to which students used this technique and the outcomes of their biopsy techniques. During the 2004-05 academic year, 114 senior dental students at The Ohio State University C...

Purified brush border and basolateral membranes were isolated from homogenized intestinal enterocytes of Holstein steers by divalent cation precipitation followed by differential and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Alkaline phosphatase and Na/K adenosine triphosphatase served as marker enzymes for the brush border and basolateral membranes, respectively. The brush border and basolatera...