Plants can acquire carbon from sources other than atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)), including soil-dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). Although the net flux of CO(2) is out of the root, soil DIC can be taken up by the root, transported within the plant, and fixed either photosynthetically or anaplerotically by plant tissues. We tested the ability of Pinus taeda L. seedlings exposed to (13)C-lab...

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a contactless fullfield displacement and strain reconstruction technique commonly used in the field of experimental mechanics. Comparing with physical measuring devices, such as strain gauges, which only provide very restricted coverage and are expensive to deploy widely, the DIC technique provides the result with full-field coverage and relative high accuracy...

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BACKGROUND We tested the hypothesis that disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) during the early phase of post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and affects the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. METHODS A review of the computer-based medical records of...

INTRODUCTION To validate the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM) disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) scoring system in patients with severe sepsis, we conducted a multicenter, prospective study at 15 critical care centers in tertiary care hospitals. METHODS This study included 624 severe sepsis patients. JAAM DIC was scored on the day of diagnosis of severe sepsis (day 1) ...

The availability of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) may have a considerable impact on species competition in phytoplankton communities. The growth, photosynthetic characteristics and competition of three strains, the toxic Microcystis aeruginosa FACHB 912, nontoxic M. aeruginosa FACHB 469 and Chlamydomonas microsphaera FACHB 52, were investigated under two different DIC concentrations (0.365 a...

Aerobic and hypoxic cultures of EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cells were used to study the effects of dicoumarol (DIC) on the cytotoxicity of mitomycin C (MC). DIC protected aerobic cells from MC toxicity, but sensitized hypoxic cells to the cytotoxic actions of this antibiotic. Survival curves for cells treated with 1.5 microM MC +/- 100 microM DIC for different periods of time under aerobic or hyp...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a syndrome characterised by the systemic activation of blood coagulation, which generates intravascular fibrin leading to thrombosis of smalland medium-sized vessels and eventually contributes to organ dysfunction (1). In addition, the consumption of platelets and coagulation factors may predispose patients with DIC to haemorrhagic complications. ...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a well known hemostatic complication of solid tumors. We evaluated the occurrence of DIC in 1117 patients with solid tumors. Of these patients, 76 (6.8%) were diagnosed with DIC. There were a total of 145 bleeding and clotting episodes reported in the 76 patients. Thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogemia, elevated D-dimer and fibrinogen degradation prod...

BACKGROUND Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) relates to the consumption of coagulation factors and platelets with bleeding and micro thrombosis events. AIM The aim of this study was to compare haemostasis parameters in critically ill patients with DIC versus patients without DIC, and in survivors versus non-survivors over time. Correlations between the DIC-score, the degree of org...