Objective(s): Previous studies showed that skeletal muscle microcirculation was reduced in chronic heart failure. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of endurance training on capillary and arteriolar density of fast and slow twitch muscles in rats with chronic heart failure. Materials and Methods: Four weeks after surgeries (left anterior descending (LAD) artery occlusion), chr...

OF THE THESIS FACTORS AFFECTING BMI AND HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS OF MOTHERS AND INFANTS IN KUWAIT by Ahmad R. AL-Haifi Florida International University, 2001 Miami, Florida Professor Fatma G. Huffman, Major Professor The purpose of this study was two-fold: to evaluate the problems of obesity and anemia among Kuwaiti mothers and their infants. The sample was made up of 254 mothers and their infants who...

A systematic study was made of capillary pressures in the microvascular bed of the mesentery of the cat. Simultaneous recordings were made with two micropipettes using a modification of the Wiederhielm servo-null system. All of the measurements were then referred to their specific location in the capillary bed by photographically reconstructing discrete networks. Pressures in different capillar...

A general analytical method based on capillary electrophoresis with indirect UV detection has been developed to separate and quarntify N-methylmorpholine-N-Oxide (NMMO) and its main degradation products iV-methylmorpboline (NMM) and morpholine (M). The electrolyte is based on the two major components 4-methylbenzylamine and 2hydlroxy-2-methylpropanoic acid (hydroxyisobutyric acid, HIBA), tbe la...

A rapid method was developed to analyze bacterial behavioral responses to chemical stimuli. Digital image processing was used to detect the accumulation of bacteria at the mouth of a capillary containing an attractant. The accumulation of bacteria was determined from the total number of cells near the mouth of the capillary per videotape frame. This method was applied to measure the chemotactic...

Kinetic capillary electrophoresis (KCE) is defined as capillary electrophoresis of species that interact during electrophoresis. KCE can serve as a conceptual platform for development of homogeneous kinetic affinity methods for affinity measurements (measurements of binding parameters and quantitative measurements) and affinity purification (purification of known molecules and search of unknown...

Affinity capillary electrophoresis has become an established approach for performing interaction studies. In affinity electrokinetic chromatography the retention factor, as in liquid chromatography, is useful for describing the migration behavior of the analytes, and is instrumental for assessing the affinity of an analyte for the pseudo-stationary phase. Erroneous use of the retention factor c...

Conventional Capillaroscopy allows the observation of a limited number of areas, classically the fingernail-fold. Videocapillaroscopy, on the contrary, can be performed on any part of the skin and of clinically accessible mucosae. The aim of the present paper was to investigate the architectural frameworks of microcirculation in the various regions of the body and their morphometric parameters ...

We present a systematic study of capillary filling for a binary fluid by using mesoscopic a lattice Boltzmann model describing a diffusive interface moving at a given contact angle with respect to the walls. We compare the numerical results at changing the ratio the typical size of the capillary, H , and the wettability of walls. Numerical results yield quantitative agreement with the theoretic...

Now that many scientific investigations focus on ionic liquids (IL) to establish their potential in different chemical processes, their application for the separation of various classes of compounds in capillary electrophoresis has also been recognized. ILs have been used as background electrolytes in aqueous and non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis for the separation of a number of different ...