Polysaccharides constitute an important source of raw materials for the packaging industry today. Polysaccharides have good natural barrier properties which are necessary for packaging films. Cellulose is the forerunner among renewable polymers for such applications. Hemicelluloses represent a new interesting breed of barrier materials. We have chosen to work with the hemicellulose O-acetylgala...

It has been widely reported that coal permeability can change from reduction to enhancement due to gas adsorption even under the constant effective stress condition, which is apparently inconsistent with the classic theoretical solutions. This study addresses this inconsistency through explicit simulations of the dynamic interactions between coal matrix swelling/shrinking induced damage and fra...

Astrocytes express potassium and water channels to support dynamic regulation of potassium homeostasis. Potassium kinetics can be modulated by aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the essential water channel for astrocyte water permeability regulation. We investigated whether extracellular potassium ([K(+)](o)) can regulate astrocyte water permeability and the mechanisms of such an effect. Studies were performe...

Purpose: Evans Blue (EB) is an azo dye that binds quantitatively with serum albumin. With an albumin binding, NOTA conjugated truncated Evan's blue (NEB) dye derived PET tracer, we aimed to establish a strategy for evaluating vascular permeability in malignant tumors via non-invasive PET. Experimental design: Sixty-minute dynamic PET using [18F]FAl-NEB was performed in three xenograft tumor mod...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MRI permeability imaging is a promising approach to identify patients with acute ischemic stroke with an increased propensity for hemorrhagic transformation (HT). Permeability imaging provides direct visualization of blood-brain barrier derangements in ischemic fields. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed clinical and MRI data on patients with acute cerebral ischemia wit...

Permeability of an asphalt pavement is one of the most important parameters that have a direct influence on its design life. It is an intrinsic property that relates the average fluid velocity to a constant pressure gradient; however, the external pressures on a saturated pavement pore structure are often dynamic due to the repeated tire loading in the field. A dynamic permeability constant, th...

Colon-specific delivery of metabolically labile molecules, such as proteins and peptides, is of particular interest in pharmaceutical research. Among the factors that may influence the permeability of drug molecules across colonic mucosa are their molecular weight and geometry. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of molecular geometry on in vitro permeability across rabbit d...

The intestinal epithelium demonstrates differential properties, providing both barrier and transport functions with respect to luminal molecules. Intestinal permeability relates to barrier function and, although it is the ‘permeation’ of molecular markers that is used to measure ‘permeability’, the terms are often confused. Permeability is that property of the intestinal epithelium or of a memb...

As a representative of emerging unconventional energy, shale gas has the characteristics large reserves, long production cycle, and environmental protection. However, due to complex geological reservoirs, economic development reservoirs is difficult. In this paper, on basis full investigation relevant literature, according permeability mechanism productivity horizontal wells in low-permeability...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is disrupted in normal appearing white matter in MS patients, when compared to healthy controls and whether it is correlated with MS clinical characteristics. METHODS Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI was used to measure BBB permeability in 27 patients with MS and compared to 24 matched healthy controls. RESULTS Permeabili...