BACKGROUND Continued development of in-vitro procedures for expansion and differentiation of erythroid progenitor cells (EPC) is essential not only in hematology and stem cell research but also virology, in light of the strict erythrotropism of the clinically important human parvovirus B19. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We cultured EPC directly from ordinary blood samples, without ex vivo st...

Tissue engineering may offer patients new options when replacement or repair of an organ is needed. However, most tissues will require a microvascular network to supply oxygen and nutrients. One strategy for creating a microvascular network would be promotion of vasculogenesis in situ by seeding vascular progenitor cells within the biopolymeric construct. To pursue this strategy, we isolated CD...

INTRODUCTION Cancellous bone is frequently used for filling bone defects in a clinical setting. It provides favourable conditions for regenerative cells such as MSC and early EPC. The combination of MSC and EPC results in superior bone healing in experimental bone healing models. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated the influence of osteogenic culture conditions on the endothelial properties...

Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) is a rare type of localization-related motor epilepsy. Clinical spectrum, electroencephalography (EEG) characteristics and various prognostic factors in EPC were studied in 20 patients. Patients who fulfilled the criteria for EPC between the years 1985 and 1999 were included in this retrospective and prospective study. The mean age was 18 years (range 5 months...

Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) is characterized by focal seizures that cannot be stopped. The most common cause of EPC in children is Rasmussen’s encephalitis. In this video case report, we describe an 11-year old female with continuous lingual EPC for two years. She has shown no signs of Rasmussen’s Encephalitis or other neurodegenerative process and structural MRI is normal. [Published wi...

Advances in the field of vascular biology lead to the identification of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) and to the development of EPC-based cell therapy to induce new vessel formation in ischemic tissues and to accelerate re-endothelialisation of injured vessels in human and various animals models. However, recent studies have shown that age and other risk factors for cardiovascular diseases...

The electron-phonon coupling (EPC) strength for each phonon mode in superconducting Pb films is measured by inelastic helium atom scattering (IHAS). This surprising ability of IHAS relies on two facts: (a) In ultrathin metal films, the EPC range exceeds the film thickness, thus enabling IHAS to detect most film phonons, even 1 nm below the surface; (b) IHAS scattering amplitudes from single pho...

在 EPC总承包管理中，设计管理是重要组成部分之一，且直接影响着工程项目的整体质量和施工成本。 EPC工程总承包模式下，由于 EPC总承包项目的实施周期长、涉及领域广，对其设计管理水平提出了更高的要求。 设计是将工程中的各项信息进行整理、分析、加工处理后，将其转化为可视化的成果，是整个工程施工中最为重要的 环节之一。由于 EPC工程总承包项目所涉及的领域十分广泛，且具有一定的复杂性，因此设计管理在整个 EPC工程总 承包模式中的地位和作用不容忽视。本文通过对 EPC工程总承包模式下设计管理中存在的问题进行分析研究，并提出 相应优化对策，旨在为提升 EPC项目总承包设计管理水平提供借鉴和参考。

Emerging evidence to support the use of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) for angiogenic therapies or as biomarkers to assess cardiovascular disease risk and progression is compelling. However, there is no uniform definition of an EPC, which makes interpretation of these studies difficult. Though a hallmark of stem and progenitor cells is their ability to proliferate and give rise to functiona...

Recent research has led to proposals for the model-driven configuration of Enterprise Systems (ES) by the help of configurable reference models. While the proposed Configurable EPCs (C-EPCs) provide adequate conceptual support towards reference model configuration, the issue of translating the configured models towards executable process specifications has not been approached yet. A first step ...