We tested the hypothesis that allogenic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) alleviated brain death (BD)-induced remote organ damage and events of post heart-transplant acute rejection. To determine the impact of BD on remote organ damage, adult-male F344 rats (n=24) were categorized sham-control (SC), BD and BDMSC (allogenic ADMSC/1.2 × 106 cells/derived from F344 by intravenous tra...

We examined whether the patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) comorbidity may represent a distinct form of BD. The subjects diagnosed with BD (n=48), OCD (n=61), and BD with OCD (n=32) were compared in terms of several socio-demographic and clinical characteristics. Previous history of suicidal attempts was more likely to be higher in BD-OCD group compared ...

The automatic fault detection of freight train image is difficult to locate, and its average accuracy low. In this paper, an object model Bidirectional You Only Look Once (BD-YOLO), proposed. process BD-YOLO divided into four steps. First, the feature extraction network extracts separates features. Second, multiscale features are fused aggregate different scales. Third, prediction across scale ...

IMPORTANCE Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating mental illness associated with high costs to diagnosed individuals and society. Within the past 2 decades, increasing numbers of children and adolescents have been diagnosed as having BD. While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have begun to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying BD, few have directly compared differenc...

Global amphibian declines are linked with the presence of specific, highly virulent genotypes of the emerging fungal disease chytridiomycosis caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) known as the global panzootic lineage (Bd-GPL). The global trade in amphibians for human consumption is suspected to have facilitated emergence of the disease, but evidence to support this is largely lacking. ...

The amphibian-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is linked to population declines in anurans and salamanders globally. To date, however, few studies have attempted to screen Bd in live caecilians; Bd-positive caecilians have only been reported in Africa and French Guiana. Here, we performed a retrospective survey of museum preserved specimens to (1) describe spatial patterns of ...

The decays Bd → ππ and Bs → KK provide an interesting strategy to extract the CKM angle γ at “second-generation” B-physics experiments of the LHC era. A variant for “first-generation” experiments can be obtained, if Bs → KK is replaced by Bd → πK. We show that the most recent experimental results for the CP-averaged Bd → ππ and Bd → πK branching ratios imply a rather restricted range for the co...

Antibodies The following monoclonal antibodies (Abs) were used for flowcytometry and cell sorting: anti-c-Kit (2B8, BD Biosciences), -Sca-1 (E13-161.7, BD Biosciences), -CD4 (L3T4, BD Biosciences), -CD8 (53-6.72, BD Biosciences), -B220 (RA3-6B2, BD Biosciences), -TER-119, -Gr-1 (RB6-8C5, BD Biosciences), -Mac-1 (M1/70, BD Biosciences), -CD34 (RAM34, eBioscience), -CD31 (MEC13.3, BD Biosciences)...

We give the natural topological model for ¬BD-N, and use it to show that the closure of spaces with the anti-Specker property under product does not imply BD-N. Also, the natural topological model for ¬BD is presented. Finally, for some of the realizability models known indirectly to falsify BD-N, it is brought out in detail how BD-N fails. keywords: anti-Specker, BD, BD-N, realizability, topol...

Brain death (BD) is a physiological state defined as complete and irreversible loss of brain function. Organ transplantation from a patient with BD is controversial in Japan because there are two classifications of BD: legal BD in which the organs can be donated and general BD in which the organs cannot be donated. The significance of BD in the terminal phase remains in the realm of scientific ...