Vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease is fundamentally biophysical in nature, involving a complex set of cellular interactions. Originally attributed solely to the entrapment of abnormally rigid sickle red cells (RBCs...
Vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease is fundamentally biophysical in nature, involving a complex set of cellular interactions. Originally attributed solely to the entrapment of abnormally rigid sickle red cells (RBCs) in the microcirculation, this process is now known to involve the decreased deformability of white blood cells (WBCs) and increased endothelial adhesion to different cell types (sickle RBCs, reticulocytes, WBCs, platelets). These biophysical interactions, which are also mediated biochemically by a variety of soluble factors (coagulation proteins, inflammatory mediators, reactive oxygen species, free hemoglobin, etc.), then ultimately lead to microvascular obstruction. However, in vitro experimental approaches that measure the vaso-occlusive properties of sickle blood cells have been unable to separate the contributions of decreased cell deformability and cell-cell adhesion in a single assay. Historically, cell deformability is measured using techniques such as micropipette aspiration, micropore filtration, and ektacytometry, whereas adhesive interactions between the endothelium, blood cells, and soluble factors are assessed using endothelial-lined flow chamber assays. No existing technique effectively evaluates both cell deformability and cell adhesion simultaneously, which is required to comprehensively study sickle cell vaso-occlusion. In the current study, we present an “endothelialized” microfluidic system that simultaneously integrates cell deformability and cell adhesion under physiologic microvascular flow conditions to investigate the underlying biophysical mechanisms of sickle cell vaso-occlusion. Briefly, a layer of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) was cultured along the inner walls of microfabricated microchannels made of the biocompatible and optically transparent polymer polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS (Figure). Standard lab-on-chip photolithography techniques were utilized to design and create the microchannels, which geomet
Multi-nuclear radio-frequency (RF) coils at ultrahigh field strengths are challenging to develop due to the high operating frequency, increased electromagnetic interaction among the coil elements, and increased electr...
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Chemical neurotransmission is central to neurotypical brain function but also implicated in a variety of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. The release dynamics of neurotransmitters is correlated with but dis...
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Radio frequency (RF) coils are critical devices in magnetic resonance (MR) systems for transmitting and receiving magnetic resonance signals. However, the required high operating frequency at ultrahigh magnetic fields...
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Radio frequency (RF) coils are critical devices in magnetic resonance (MR) systems for transmitting and receiving magnetic resonance signals. However, the required high operating frequency at ultrahigh magnetic fields makes the design of highly efficient radio frequency (RF) transmit or receive coils technically challenging. This is particularly true in the double-tuned or triple-tuned RF coils usually required in heteronuclear MRI and MRS where multiple nuclei, such as 1 H, 19 F, and 31 P, are involved. The performance of RF coils is a critically important factor for realizing the high sensitivity provided by ultrahigh magnetic fields to contribute towards the advancement of a novel human in vivo application at 9.4T. In this work, two different configurations of novel triple-nuclear ( 1 H/ 19 F/ 31 P) RF resonators were proposed for the ultrahigh field 9.4T applications. We also reported on the design and construction, and a field-circuit co-simulation was used to obtain the S-parameters, B 1 + field and specific absorption rate (SAR) distributions to evaluate and compare their performance. And the characteristics and advantages of the proposed two different configurations of triple-nuclear RF resonators in the applications of 1 H/ 19 F/ 31 P at ultrahigh magnetic field were investigated.
In this paper, we review physics- and data-driven reconstruction techniques for simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) / magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, which have significant advantages for clinica...
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Reproducibility of computational studies is a hallmark of scientific methodology. It enables researchers to build with confidence on the methods and findings of others, reuse and extend computational pipelines, and th...
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To measure protein isoforms in individual mammalian cells, we report single‐cell resolution isoelectric focusing (scIEF) and high‐selectivity immunoprobing. Microfluidic design and photoactivatable materials establi...
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To measure protein isoforms in individual mammalian cells, we report single‐cell resolution isoelectric focusing (scIEF) and high‐selectivity immunoprobing. Microfluidic design and photoactivatable materials establish the tunable pH gradients required by IEF and precisely control the transport and handling of each 17‐pL cell lysate during analysis. The scIEF assay resolves protein isoforms with resolution down to a single‐charge unit, including both endogenous cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins from individual mammalian cells.
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