Reactive oxygen species have been implicated in the pathogenesis of virtually every stage of vascular lesion formation, hypertension, and other vascular diseases. We are currently gaining insight into important sources of reactive oxygen species in the vessel wall, including the NADPH oxidases, xanthine oxidase, uncoupled nitric oxide synthase, and mitochondrial sources. Although various reacti...

this paper presents a new procedure for automatic extraction of the blood vessels and optic disk (od) in fundus fluorescein angiogram (ffa). in order to extract blood vessel centerlines, the algorithm of vessel extraction starts with the analysis of directional images resulting from sub‑bands of fast discrete curvelet transform (fdct) in the similar directions and different scales. for this pur...

Introduction:Adenosine as a potent vasodilator has physiological role in regulation of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). Metod: Laser-Dِoppler flowmetry technique was used to study pial vessels blood flow responses to adenosine receptors agonists and antagonist. Male Sprague Dawley rats (250-350g) that were housed in standard conditions, were anesthetized with Urethane (1.5g/kg). Adenosine ...