Abstract Background and Aims Dialysis patients have a high rate of cardiovascular morbidity mortality. For this reason, new technical advances are necessary to be introduced in clinical practice. Medium cut-off (MCO) membranes generation that allow the removal greater number medium-sized molecules compared high-flux hemodialysis (HF-HD) but retaining albumin. Theranova, MCO membrane has an incr...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Previous studies have suggested that online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) fluid can be used as dialysate for continuous renal replacement therapies, and thus HDF costs can be reduced. The aims of this study were to determine the purity of OL-HDF fluid and to verify the stability of the electrolyte composition and acid-base balance during its storage. METHODS OL-HDF fluid was coll...

We report a highly significant Submillimeter Array (SMA) detection of the prototypical submillimeter source HDF 850.1, which is the brightest submillimeter source in the Hubble Deep Field-North proper. The detection yields an extremely precise position of RA(2000)=12h 36m 51.99s and Dec(2000)=+62 12 25.83 with a 1σ positional uncertainty of 0.17. The position is consistent with the location of ...

Background: Diagnostic ultrasound has been used to detect human disease especially fetus abnormalities in recent decades. Although the harmful effects of diagnostic ultrasound on human have not been established so far, several researchers showed it has had bioeffects in cell lines and in experimental animals. Three-dimensional (3D), four-dimensional (4D), and color Doppler sonography are new te...

Background: Acute blood purification (ABP) therapy is used regularly in the clinical setting and reportedly alleviates organ failure associated with severe systemic inflammatory responses, leading to reduced mortality. The present study aimed to determine whether there is a difference in efficacy between polysulfone (PS) membranes, which are currently used regularly in the clinical setting, and...

I review recent progress on determining the SEDs and luminosity functions for galaxies in the large magnitude limited sample in the region of the HDF-North of the Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey. 1. Spectral Energy Distributions and Galaxy Luminosity Functions The Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey, of which I am the PI, has assembled a redshift survey, described in Cohen et al. (2000), ...

We present a catalog of 74 galaxies detected serendipitously during a campaign of spectroscopic observations of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF) and its environs. Among the identified objects are five candidate Lyα–emitters at z∼5, a galaxy cluster at z = 0.85, and a Chandra source with a heretofore undetermined redshift of z = 2.011. We report redshifts for 25 galaxies in the central HDF, 13 ...

We evaluated the nuclear actin accumulation as a new marker of cellular senescence, using human diploid fibroblast (HDF), chondrocyte primary cultures, Mv1Lu epithelial cells, and Huh7 cancer cells. Nuclear accumulation of globular actin (G-actin) and dephosphorylated cofilin was highly significant in the senescent HDF cells, accompanied with inhibition of LIM kinase (LIMK) -1 activity. When nu...

BACKGROUND Hemodiafiltration (HDF), as a convective blood purification technique, has been associated with favorable outcomes improved phosphate control, removal of middle-molecules such as Beta2-microglobulin and the occurrence of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) as compared to diffusive techniques. The aim of this retrospective cohort study in dialysis patients receiving HDF in one urban dialy...

Other papers in this volume describe some of the results which have come from the HDF data. I describe here several types of observations in the infrared which can take us beyond the redshifts probed by the HDF. Although I have split this paper into two main sections, one covering emission-line techniques and the other covering continuum-based techniques, it should be noted that all of these su...