Umbilical cord blood is the baby's blood left over in the umbilical cord and placenta after a baby is delivered and the cord is cut. Cord blood has all of the features of regular blood, but it is also a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells. Hematopoietic stem cells are unspecialized cells that produce all blood cells. These include: • Platelets, which are needed for blood clotting • Red...

Background: Arsenic is one of the most toxic metalloids. Anemia and leukopenia are common results of poisoning with arsenic, which may happen due to a direct hemolytic or cytotoxic effect on blood cells. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of Nasturtium officinale on blood cells and antioxidant enzymes in rats exposed to sodium (meta)arsenite. Methods: 32...

background because of great concerns about mortality and morbidity of infection in febrile neutropenic patients, the appropriate empirical antibiotic should be started immediately. although there are established guidelines for the use of empirical therapy, local microbiological pattern and antibiotic susceptibility should be considered. objectives the current study aimed to identify the etiolog...

Computer-based imaging systems are becoming important tools for quantitative assessment of peripheral blood and bone marrow samples to help experts diagnose blood disorders such as acute leukemia. These systems generally initiate a segmentation stage where white blood cells are separated from the background and other nonsalient objects. As the success of such imaging systems mainly depends on t...

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) is a machine learning architecture proposed to overcome some of the shortcomings convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CapsNets have mainly outperformed CNNs in datasets where images are small and/or objects identify minimal background noise. In this work, we present new architecture, parallel CapsNets, which exploits concept branching network isolate certai...