BACKGROUND Spontaneous coronary reperfusion with TIMI-3 flow is associated with favorable clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated the ability of analyzing cardiac cycle-dependent variation of myocardial integrated backscatter (IBS) for predicting spontaneous reperfusion in anterior AMI. METHODS AND RESULTS We recorded IBS images on admission in 10...

This study develops a novel composite phase change material (PCM) based onparaffin/hydrophobic expanded perlite and exfoliated graphene nanoplatelets as heat transferpromoter. The experimental analysis was systematically carried out on fabrication,characterization and testing the thermal storage properties of composite PCM. The micro-morphology characteristics of composite PCM s...

The centrosome serves as the primary micro-tubule-organizing center in animal cells and, consequently, functions in many processes, such as migration and formation of the mitotic spindles. The centrosome consists of a pair of centrioles surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), the platform for microtubule nucle-ation. The pair of centrioles duplicate once per cell cycle to ensure the equal ...

Centrosomes are major microtubule-nucleating organelles that facilitate chromosome segregation and cell division in metazoans. Centrosomes comprise centrioles that organize a micron-scale mass of protein called pericentriolar material (PCM) from which microtubules nucleate. During each cell cycle, PCM accumulates around centrioles through phosphorylation-mediated assembly of PCM scaffold protei...

Centrosome asymmetry has been implicated in stem cell fate maintenance in both flies and vertebrates [1, 2]. Drosophila neuroblasts, the neural precursors of the fly's central nervous system [3], contain molecularly and physically asymmetric centrosomes, established through differences in pericentriolar matrix (PCM) retention [4-7]. For instance, the daughter centriole maintains PCM and thus mi...

The centrosome serves as the primary micro-tubule-organizing center in animal cells and, consequently, functions in many processes, such as migration and formation of the mitotic spindles. The centrosome consists of a pair of centrioles surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), the platform for microtubule nucle-ation. The pair of centrioles duplicate once per cell cycle to ensure the equal ...

The centrosome serves as the primary micro-tubule-organizing center in animal cells and, consequently, functions in many processes, such as migration and formation of the mitotic spindles. The centrosome consists of a pair of centrioles surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), the platform for microtubule nucle-ation. The pair of centrioles duplicate once per cell cycle to ensure the equal ...

The centrosome serves as the primary micro-tubule-organizing center in animal cells and, consequently, functions in many processes, such as migration and formation of the mitotic spindles. The centrosome consists of a pair of centrioles surrounded by pericentriolar material (PCM), the platform for microtubule nucle-ation. The pair of centrioles duplicate once per cell cycle to ensure the equal ...

Phase change memory (PCM) is a byte-addressable type of non-volatile memory. Compared to other volatile and non-volatile memories, PCM is two to four times denser than dynamic random access memory (DRAM). It has better read latency than NAND flash memory. Even though the write endurance of PCM is 10 times better than NAND flash memory, it is still limited to times per PCM cell. When researchers...

Energy crisis, global warming and other environmental issues are what motivate researchers to find new strategies to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Recently, using phase change materials (PCM) in the building’s envelopes has drawn significant attention as an energy-saving method, which helps in increasing the building’s thermal capacity. In the present research, the effects of the ...