BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to compare tissue blood flow at various sites before and after stellate ganglion block (SGB) and to discuss the redistribution of tissue blood flow after SGB. METHODS We studied 16 male Japanese white rabbits. For SGB, the tip of a 26-gauge needle was placed on the left transverse process of the cervical vertebra, 1 to 2 mm caudal to the cr...

T he loss of cancer or bacteria detection by the immune system is traditionally looked at from the point of cell–cell or humoral mediator–cell interactions. However, immune surveillance in lymphatics critically requires cell transport along the lymphatics for entry of antigen/dendritic cells into the draining lymph node (1). Reductions in collecting lymphatic function affect all subsequent immu...

BACKGROUND The Side Population (SP) has become an important hallmark for the definition of the stem cell compartment, especially in the detection of these cells and in their physical isolation by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). SP cells are CD34neg and were discovered using ultraviolet excitation based on the efflux of Hoechst 33342 (Ho342). Although the method works as originally d...

1. Plethysmographs containing the hand plus forearm were used to measure blood flow in patients with a srugically created arteriovenous fistula in one forearm. 2. Apparent flow rate was stable over a limited range of collecting pressures; the absolute value of these pressures varied from patient to patient. 3. After arterial occlusion, blood flow increased by a similar amount on the normal side...

The cloud model’s dependence on massive parallelism and resource sharing exacerbates the security challenge of timing side-channels. Timing Information Flow Control (TIFC) is a novel adaptation of IFC techniques that may offer a way to reason about, and ultimately control, the flow of sensitive information through systems via timing channels. With TIFC, objects such as files, messages, and proc...

Abstract In this article, the side-entry agitator commonly used in wet desulfurization absorption tower of a 300 MW thermal power unit was taken as research object, and gas–liquid two-phase flow field stirring tank numerically simulated by using two-fluid model based on Euler–Euler method. The vertical horizontal velocity distribution gas phase were studied. results showed that formed “fountain...