determination of blood compatibility is an important problem in blood contacting devices. in this study, two classes of materials including polyurethane (based on polyethylene glycol and poly tetrametylene oxide) and polyvinyl alcohol samples, with different hydrophilicity properties were synthesized and their physico-chemical properties were compared. water uptake ratio, ftir spectroscopy, and...

The data presented in this paper show that the population of cells that adoptively transfer contact hypersensitivity are Lyt-1+ 2-, I-J- and nonadherent to V. villosa lectin. However, the adoptive transfer of immunity by this population of cells is successful only when the recipient has been treated in such a way as to impair the host immunosuppression mechanism. This population cannot, on its ...

To investigate complex biophysical relationships driving directed cell migration, we developed a biomimetic platform that allows perturbation of microscale geometric constraints with concomitant nanoscale contact guidance architectures. This permits us to elucidate the influence, and parse out the relative contribution, of multiscale features, and define how these physical inputs are jointly pr...

The most physiological type of cell cycle arrest - namely, contact inhibition in dense culture - is the least densely studied. Despite cell cycle arrest, confluent cells do not become senescent. We recently described that mTOR (target of rapamycin) is inactive in contact-inhibited cells. Therefore, conversion from reversible arrest to senescence (geroconversion) is suppressed. I this Perspectiv...

The growth characteristics of a bromodeoxyuridine-dependent cell line that was derived from a non-contact-inhibited Syrian hamster melanoma line were studied. The dependent cells require high concentrations of bromodeoxyuridine not only for optimal growth but also for the maintenance of the non-contact-inhibited state. When grown in the absence of bromodeoxyuridine, the dependent cells become c...

Abstract Contact tracing applications have been deployed at a fast pace around the world to stop spread of COVID-19 and may be key containing future pandemics. This study aims explain public opinion toward cell phone contact using survey experiment. We build upon theory in evolutionary psychology—disease avoidance—to predict how media coverage pandemic affects support for containment measures. ...