Semi-automatic analysis of the repair process of a circular mechanical lesion of confluent human vascular endothelial cells in vitro was used to evaluate the contributions of cell migration and cell proliferation. Standard heparin added to culture medium that contained 30% human serum induced an inhibition of cell migration at the lesion margin during the first day after injury. Several sulfate...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic high-frequency ultrasound, microcurrent, and a combination of the two have been used as potential interventions in the soft tissue healing process, but little is known about their effect on the immune system. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of therapeutic high frequency ultrasound, microcurrent, and the combined therapy of the two on the size of the wound area, perito...

To evaluate bladder function recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) in response to a combination treatment of an acutely administered AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist and delayed transplantation of neuronal precursors. Female rats received a contusion injury at T8/9. The AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist NBQX was directly administered into the lesion site immediately after injury. Nine days pos...

FDG-PET imaging has significantly altered the workup of the oncologic patient. With the introduction of combined FDG-PET/CT scanners, there has been a dramatic improvement in lesion detection, lesion characterization and accurate lesion localization. As attenuation correction can be attained with the CT images, PET exam times have been dramatically reduced, by as much as 50% in many instances. ...

The roles played by peritoneoscopic examination, direct cholangiography and cytological examination of aspirated bile at the time of direct cholangiography were studied in 140 patients with various biliary and pancreatic diseases. Both peritoneoscopic and cholangiographic examinations were important in detecting the lesion, and cytological examination was effective in deciding the nature of the...

Introduction It has been shown that the combined use of complex valued in-phase (ip) and opposed-phase (op) images can improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of dynamic MR mammography (MRM)[1] compared to conventional ip-subtraction (SIPCN). While improved SNR is certainly helpful, this study is comparing the overall image quality and especially the lesion sharpness of four different contrasts...