INTRODUCTION Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a bacterial infection of the digestive tract. Acute infections are accompanied by increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE). To date, there have been no studies of the rheological properties of blood during the course of digestive tract infections. The aim of our study was to examine the effects of CDI on red blood cell (RBC) rheology,...

In an interesting study, Jung et al.1) found an effective reduction of whole blood viscosity in statin naïve acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with early statin administration. In statin naïve ACS patients they found an apparent decrease in whole blood viscosities at both of the two shear rates. The hypothesis that a lipid-lowering reagent, statin, contributes to blood viscosity decrease i...

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of 2-pyridinemethanol (2P) aqueous solutions as a refractive index matching liquid. The high refractive index and low viscosity of 2P-water mixtures enables refractive index matching of beads that cannot be index matched with glycerol-water or sucrose-water solutions, such as silica beads that have the refractive index of bulk fused silica or of polymethylm...

It is evident that behaviour of many fluids varies with varying temperature. We present mathematical properties of unsteady planar flows of shear thinning incompressible fluids where the change of the temperature influences the viscosity, which is at the same time shear thinning (power law fluids with power law index r − 2 < 0). Contrary of [2] (where a threedimensional flow is studied for 9/5 ...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common condition in aging men, associated with lower urinary tract symptoms. It is caused due to the augmented levels of the androgen dihydrotestosterone. Dutasteride, a 5α-Reductase inhibitor has been recommended for the treatment of BPH upon oral administration. However, long term oral administration of dutasteride may cause sexual problem in man...

With the advent of an aged society, the incident of dysphagia has increased; dysphagic patients often aspirate foods (foods enter not the esophagus but the trachea) [1, 2]. Thin (low viscosity) liquids flow readily with small cohesion between particles and, therefore, are easily deformed during swallowing. Thus, thin liquid may penetrate the larynx and enter the trachea if laryngeal closure doe...

waste low density polyethylenes (ldpe) represent a source of energy and valuablechemicals, were pyrolysed catalytically in a batch reactor under atmospheric pressure. calciumcarbide was used as a catalyst to explore its effect on pyrolysis product distribution. the effect oftemperature, amount of catalyst and time on the yields of the pyrolysed products wasinvestigated. the effect of catalyst o...

the aim of this work was to investigate the influence of interactions between modified starch (hi-cap 100) and the nonionic surfactant tween 80 on the properties of cardamom oil-in-water emulsion and its corresponding spray dried microcapsules. to this end the mean diameter and size distribution of droplets as well as their polydispersity index and also the viscosity and flow behavior of emulsi...