Venous anastomotic intimal hyperplasia (IH) observed in the arteriovenous shunt (AVS) has been associated with disturbed hemodynamics. This study aims to correlate hemodynamics with wall histology and wall mechanics by examining the flow field in AVS with computational fluid dynamics using experimental data taken from in vivo experiments. Input data to the computational model was obtained in vi...

Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain (coord) National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland "Mario Negri" Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece Porto University Medical School, Porto, Portugal National Institute for Health Promotion, Budapest, Hungary...

Mairi Ziaka1, Demosthenes Makris1*, Sophia Markantonis2 and Epaminondas Zakynthinos1 1Critical Care Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece 2Laboratory of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Athens, Greece *Corresponding author: Demosthenes Makris, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa,University of Thessal...

AIM To describe the development of an undergraduate Gerodontology course in Athens Dental School. BACKGROUND Because of demographic changes, undergraduate dental curricula should place appropriate emphasis on the oral care of the elderly. Therefore, the Athens Dental School Curriculum Committee authorised the development of a new Gerodontology course. METHODS The new course was introduced i...

J. E. Byers ([email protected]) and C. L. Keogh, Odum School of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. – A. J. Malek and L. E. Quevillon, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Univ. of New Hampshire, 24 Colovos Rd., School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, Durham, NH 03824, USA. Present address for AJM: Graduate School of Oceanography, Univ. of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA. Pre...

Jan Lötvall, University of Gothenburg Ruby Pawankar, Nippon Medical School Dana V. Wallace, Nova Southeastern University Cezmi Akdis, University of Zurich Lanny J. Rosenwasser, Children's Mercy Hospital Richard W. Weber, National Jewish Health A. Wesley Burks, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thomas B. Casale, Creighton University Richard F. Lockey, University of South Florida Ni...

Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA 98112, USA Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, School of Biology, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LS2 9JT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell Univ...

Efstratios apostolakis1, Nikolaos a. papakoNstaNtiNou2, Nikolaos G. Baikoussis3, aNastasios pEtrou4, JohN GoudEvENos5 1Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, School of Medicine, Ioannina, 2General Surgery Department, General Oncology Hospital of Kifissia “Agioi Anargyroi”, Kifissia, Athens, Greece; 3Cardiac Surgery Department, L’Institut Mutualiste Montsuris, Paris,...

1 Multimedia Knowledge Group, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece {dasiop,ikom}@iti.gr 2 ISWeb Information Systems and Semantic Web, University of Koblenz, Germany, {saathoff,staab}@uni-koblenz.de 3 Image Video and Multimedia Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, {fmylonas,i...

1Cell Biology, Histology, and Embryology Department, Medicine School, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina 2Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, 5300 La Rioja, Argentina 3Program of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, 8380453 Santiago, Chile 4Department of Infectious Diseases and Center for Tropical and...