conclusions ultimately, we can conclude that the hemoglobin level at the time of admission and before delivery, the type of disease, gestational age, and transfusion could be effective factors of patient mortality. results the mean maternal age was 27.60 ± 6.37 years. the hemoglobin level at hospital admission was 8.9 ± 1.61 g/dl for the survivors and 7.73 ± 1.19 g/dl for the deceased patients ...

Dictyostelium discoideum (Dd) is a widely studied model system from which fundamental insights into cell movement, chemotaxis, aggregation and pattern formation can be gained. In this system aggregation results from the chemotactic response by dispersed amoebae to a travelling wave of the chemoattractant cAMP. We have developed a model in which the cells are treated as discrete points in a cont...

Acid-base equilibrium and pH of blood have important clinical consequences in numerous diseases and pathophysiological conditions. The micro-rheological parameters of blood, such as red blood cell deformability and red blood cell aggregation are influenced by several metabolic factors, and provide information regarding inflammatory, septic and tissue or organ ischemia-reperfusion processes. Des...

The aggregation characteristics of red blood cells (RBCs) are known as important factors in the microvascular flow system, and increased RBC aggregation has been observed in various pathological diseases, such as thrombosis and myocardial infarction. This paper describes a simple microfluidic device for measuring the RBC aggregation by integrating a microfluidic slit rheometry and laser-backsca...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that sidestream tobacco smoke extracts would inhibit the culture of endothelial cells and enhance platelet aggregation under diabetic vascular conditions. Sidestream tobacco smoke and advanced glycation end products are known cardiovascular risk factors and we aimed to determine the combined interaction between these two risk facto...

Nowadays, industrialization exposes the human and environment resources to serious dangers. The importance of these resources caused the HSE (health, safety and environment) to have a significant contribution in industries’ evaluation, especially in construction industry. While evaluating the project’s success from an HSE point of view, it is not enough to rely solely on the outputs without con...

within the ␣-synuclein molecule, which self-aggregates to 2 Department of Pathology form amyloid and is an efficient seed for formation of A␤ subsequently found to belong to a larger family of molecules , including ␤-synuclein (or phosphoneuroprotein 14) (Jakes et al. We characterized ␤-synuclein, the non-amyloidogenic molecule is a natively unfolded protein (Weinreb et al., homolog of ␣-synucl...