The 17th ISCHS took place in Osaka, Japan, on 23 to 25 September 2013. This symposium focuses on an exchange of views on the structure and function of hepatic sinusoidal cells in addition to their roles in clinical pathophysiology.

We describe the spatial coherence properties of a cold atom electron source in the framework of a quasihomogeneous wavefield. The model is used as the basis for direct measurements of the transverse spatial coherence length of electron bunches extracted from a cold atom electron source. The coherence length is determined from the measured visibility of a propagated electron distribution with a ...

Direct ferritin immunoelectron microscopy was applied to visualize the distribution of the hepatocyte cell surface of the asialoglycoprotein receptor which is responsible for the rapid clearance of serum glycoproteins and lysosomal catabolism. For this purpose, rabbit antibody against the purified hepatic binding protein specific for asialoglycoproteins was prepared and coupled to ferritin by g...

A two-dimensional heat conduction problem in which a liquid becomes solidified by heat transfer to a sinusoidal mold of finite thickness is solved by using a linear perturbation method. The liquid perfectly wets the sinusoidal mold surface prior to the beginning of solidification. This leads to a corresponding undulation of the solidified shell thickness. Both surfaces of the mold follow a sinu...

conclusions atypical irregular tumors should be considered as sos when the patient has received oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. a qualitative imaging modality diagnosis, such as with diffusion-weighted mri, is superior to a morphological diagnosis in focal sos. this imaging modality can prevent unnecessary operations. case presentation a 40-year-old woman with rectal cancer underwent high anter...

Interleukin 2 (IL-2) mediates the regression of metastatic cancer, but its clinical use is limited by associated toxicities including hepatic dysfunction. To determine the mechanism for IL-2-induced hepatic dysfunction, we hypothesized that IL-2 activation of Kupffer cells causes leukocyte-endothelial adhesion and decreases hepatic sinusoidal blood flow. C57BL/6 mice were given injections of la...

The sinusoidal speech model represents a speech signal as a linear combination of sinusoids with time-varying parameters {amplitudes, frequencies, and phases}. However, one drawback of this model is that the analysis window width is generally fixed in analyzing the signal. Since each sinusoidal parameter has different frequencies, an analysis window with fixed width can’t guarantee an optimum s...

Wrinkling instabilities in polymeric bilayers have been exploited as optical phase gratings with tunable performance. Here, we report strain modulated 1D and 2D fabricated by the ubiquitous process of plasma-oxidation polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). While surface oxidation provides a remarkably facile glassy skin formation approach, minimizing delamination debonding, it inherently results gradient...

Holographic relief gratings can be fabricated directly on the surface of azobenzene-containing materials (or simply azomaterials) without additional development steps. Despite often being described to have ideal sinusoidal profiles, developing morphology in large amplitude affect light distribution writing interferogram, causing profile deformations and deviations expected diffraction behavior....