INTRODUCTION Epimedium species (aka horny goat weed) have been utilized for the treatment of erectile dysfunction in Traditional Chinese Medicine for many years. Icariin (ICA) is the active moiety of Epimedium species. AIM To evaluate the penile hemodynamic and tissue effects of ICA in cavernous nerve injured rats. We also studied the in vitro effects of ICA on cultured pelvic ganglia. METH...

Internal carotid artery (ICA) trapping can be used for the treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms, blood blister-like aneurysms, and fusiform dissecting aneurysms. Fusiform dissecting aneurysms are challenging to treat surgically and endovascularly because of no definite neck and critical perforators. Surgical or endovascular trapping of the ICA with or without an extracranial-intracranial b...

Speech is the fundamental means of communication among humans. Speech production is the process of converting a linguistic message to the acoustic waveform. Separating various linearly mixed speech signals is often modelled by famous cocktail party problem and can be achieved by a technique known as Independent Component Analysis (ICA). ICA is similar to PCA and Factor analysis but it works on ...

Thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) is considered to be a major virulence factor in Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and most cases of V. parahaemolyticus diarrhea in humans are caused by tdh gene-positive strains. In the present study, we developed an immunochromatographic assay to detect TDH (TDH-ICA) and evaluated the utility of TDH-ICA for the diagnosis of V. parahaemolyticus diarrhea. TDH-ICA allo...

Voltage-activated calcium currents (ICa) are one way by which calcium influx into neurons is mediated. To investigate changes in kinetic properties of ICa during neuronal development and to correlate possible kinetic changes with specific differentiation processes, the ICa of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) was recorded with the perforated patch-clamp technique in rat retinal slices and in whole ...

We propose a novel blind separation framework for Single­ Input Multiple-Output (SIMO)守nodel-based acoustic sig­ nals using the extended ICA algorithm， SIMO-ICA. The SIMO-ICA consists of multiple ICAs and a 日delity con­ troller， and each ICA runs in parallel under the日delity con­ trol of the entire separation system. The SIMO-ICA can separate the mixed signals， not into monaural source sig­ nal...

Geometric algorithms for linear independent component analysis (ICA) have recently received some attention due to their pictorial description and their relative ease of implementation. The geometric approach to ICA was proposed first by Puntonet and Prieto (1995). We will reconsider geometric ICA in a theoretic framework showing that fixed points of geometric ICA fulfill a geometric convergence...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stent-protected carotid angioplasty (SPAC) is an option for treating cervical symptomatic high-grade internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. So far, knowledge about hemodynamic changes in the early postinterventional phase is limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate these changes. METHODS Thirty-four consecutive patients with a high-grade ICA stenosis (accordi...

International trade allows for wider access to goods and services in domestic markets. It contributes socio-economic development, it is an important factor raising living standards. The aim of the study provide a duration analysis relationships Polish enterprises on intra-community market determine influence selected factors length time last. We employ survival methods (the case 87 CN chapter—v...

The regulatory standards require that the identification of live plague vaccines and liquid tularaemia allergen (Tularin) should be performed by immunofluorescence. A major drawback recommended method is its labour intensive nature. However, immunochromatography represents an alternative offers a number advantages, including rapid testing easy result interpretation. aim study was to assess appl...