Allografts have been used in a variety of applications to augment as well as replace tissues throughout the body. A number of steps are involved in selection, harvesting, processing and testing of dermal allografts. G...
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Allografts have been used in a variety of applications to augment as well as replace tissues throughout the body. A number of steps are involved in selection, harvesting, processing and testing of dermal allografts. Grafts can be obtained that are: free of antibodies to viruses and low in viral titers. Cellular material can be eliminated from the tissue and the product becomes almost exclusively a collagen fiber network. The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in collagen structure and properties that occur during processing of decellularized dermis. The results indicate that collagen fiber swelling occurs during processing although the product preserves the native collagen banding pattern at the fibrillar structural level. Fiber swelling and decreased collagen deformability of processed dermis, may lead to stress concentration at the implant-tissue interface and up-regulation of mechanotransduction. This may lead to premature mechanical failure due to creation of a chronic inflammatory condition at the implant-tissue interface. It is suggested that all dermal allografts be oriented such that Langer’s lines of the implant match those of the host tissue, and that wound closure by suturing be done under conditions that preserve the normal tension in skin in order to minimize implant-interfacial failure.
Hydrogen production from steam or autothermal alcohol reforming has been widely studied, but these methods require high temperatures and emit CO2. Here, we present a new strategy for the simultaneous room-temperature ...
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Hydrogen production from steam or autothermal alcohol reforming has been widely studied, but these methods require high temperatures and emit CO2. Here, we present a new strategy for the simultaneous room-temperature production of hydrogen and other chemicals without the emission of CO2, via the photo- electrochemical reforming of biomass-derived alcohols. The measured hydrogen quantum efficiencies reach around 80% across the entire visible solar spectrum from 450 to 850 nm, achieving an ultrahigh hydrogen production rate of 7.91 μmol/(min·cm^2) under AM 1.5G illumination.
Fiddler crabs are one of the types of fauna that inhabit the mangrove ecosystem. They have an essential role in nutrient improvements in the mangrove substrate, besides increasing oxygenation, decomposition and percol...
Fiddler crabs are one of the types of fauna that inhabit the mangrove ecosystem. They have an essential role in nutrient improvements in the mangrove substrate, besides increasing oxygenation, decomposition and percolation rate, and decreasing salinity and the sulfide substrate condition. This study performed the identification of two species based on their molecular qualities through COI gene markers. The samples were collected from Surabaya, Indonesia and their genomic DNA was extracted through DNA kit extraction at the Molecular Physiology Laboratory PKNU, Busan Korea. Based on the molecular identification in BLASTN, the two species confirmed were Uca forcipata and Uca triangularis with 99% certainty. The species were classified as an Asian fiddler crab species based on the phylogenetic tree featuring 59 species of fiddler crab from around the world.
Stroke is a common cause of sudden death and disability worldwide. In clinical practice, brain magnetic resonance (MR) scans are used to assess the stroke lesion presence. In this work, we have built a fully automatic...
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The circular mitochondrial genome of the mud spiny lobster, Panulirus polyphagus was determined by next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform. The mitochondrial genome of P. polyphagus was 15,707 bp in length, which co...
The circular mitochondrial genome of the mud spiny lobster, Panulirus polyphagus was determined by next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform. The mitochondrial genome of P. polyphagus was 15,707 bp in length, which comprised 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, two ribosomal RNAs (12S and 16S). A non-coding putative control region (739 bp) was located between 12S ribosomal RNA and tRNA-Ile. Except for COX1, 13 protein-coding genes initiated with the conventional start codon (ATG). The phylogenetic analysis with the mitogenomes in family Palinuridae showed P. polyphagus was clustered together with four congener species forming a clade, and Panulirus versicolor is closest to P. polyphagus.
High-resolution microscopy images of tissue specimens provide detailed information about the morphology of normal and diseased tissue. Image analysis of tissue morphology can help cancer researchers develop a better u...
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Radiosensitization effects caused by high atomic number (Z) metallic nanoparticles have been extensively explored with a wide range of X-ray based radiotherapy beams that seem to provide intriguing results for potenti...
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Pixelwise segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium and the four cardiac chambers in 2-D steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences is an essential preprocessing step for a wide range of analyses. V...
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Pixelwise segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium and the four cardiac chambers in 2-D steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences is an essential preprocessing step for a wide range of analyses. Variability in contrast, appearance, orientation, and placement of the heart between patients, clinical views, scanners, and protocols makes fully automatic semantic segmentation a notoriously difficult problem. Here, we present Ω-Net (Omega-Net): a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for simultaneous localization, transformation into a canonical orientation, and semantic segmentation. First, an initial segmentation is performed on the input image;second, the features learned during this initial segmentation are used to predict the parameters needed to transform the input image into a canonical orientation;and third, a final segmentation is performed on the transformed image. In this work, Ω-Nets of varying depths were trained to detect five foreground classes in any of three clinical views (short axis, SA;four-chamber, 4C;two-chamber, 2C), without prior knowledge of the view being segmented. This constitutes a substantially more challenging problem compared with prior work. The architecture was trained on a cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM, N = 42) and healthy control subjects (N = 21). Network performance, as measured by weighted foreground intersection-over-union (IoU), was substantially improved for the best-performing Ω-Net compared with U-Net segmentation without localization or orientation (0.858 vs 0.834). In addition, to be comparable with other works, Ω-Net was retrained from scratch on the publicly available 2017 MICCAI Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge (ACDC) dataset. The Ω-Net outperformed the state-of-the-art method in segmentation of the LV and RV bloodpools, and performed slightly worse in segmentation of the LV myocardium. We conclude that this architecture represents a substantive advancemen
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