Isoprostanes are products of free radical-catalyzed peroxidation and 8-epi-prostaglandin (PG) F2 alpha is the most important vasomodulator of this group of compounds. In human lower leg lymphatics isolated from 5 different patients without a smoking history or hyperlipidemia, 8-epi-PGF2 alpha stimulated in vitro contraction more strongly than the thromboxane receptor agonist U46619. Other isopr...

Echo planar imaging (EPI) is the method of choice for the majority of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), yet EPI is prone to geometric distortions and thus misaligns with conventional anatomical reference data. The poor geometric correspondence between functional and anatomical data can lead to severe misplacements and corruption of detected activation patterns. However, recent advan...

Epinephrine (Epi) infusion influences platelet activation markers in vivo, but in vitro studies have mainly examined supraphysiological Epi concentrations and have yielded conflicting results. In this study whole-blood flow-cytometric measurements of platelet fibrinogen binding and P-selectin expression were used to compare enhancement of ADP (0.1 to 10 mumol/L)-induced platelet activation by E...

A patient with hepatic epithelioid angiomyolipoma (Epi-AML) with arterioportal venous shunting, who was successfully treated by a laparoscopic left lateral sectionectomy, is presented herein. AML is an uncommon benign neoplasm of the liver. Tumors composed predominantly of epithelioid cells have been subcategorized into Epi-AML, and the treatment strategy for Epi-AML is currently undetermined. ...

BACKGROUND With increasing age, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline is a frequent manifestation and is strongly associated with other preclinical target organ damage (TOD). In literature, many equations exist in assessing patients' eGFR. However, these equations were mainly derived and validated in the population from Western countries, which equation should be used for risk str...

This paper describes an efficient method to obtain 3D information from omni images using EPI analysis. Two types of omni cameras are employed to make a spatio-temporal volume, which is a sequence of omni images stacked in the spatio-temporal space. For the EPI analysis of omni image, we examine different types of cross sections in such spatiotemporal volumes. To conduct the EPI analysis realist...

shimming > epi; right: epi > z-shimming. P < 0.05 uncorrected. Fig. 2. Activation map from 6 subjects using z-shimming (left) and normal EPI (right). P < 0.01 uncorrected. Fig. 1. schematic drawing of the volume selective z-shimming slices. Solid lines: actual slices for imaging; solid red lines: slices to apply z-shim; dashed red lines: virtual slices during slice positioning, the actual slice...