Methods Cardiovascular tissue allografts (CVA) were retrieved from recipients of heart transplants (RHT) and multiorgan donors (MOD) which fulfill donor selection criteria. Processing of CVA was performed in CTB clean room (GMP Class B). Initial processing included surgical dissection, measurements, morphology and functional assessment and collection of quality control samples. CVA were incubat...

Rapid HIV tests are screening tests used to detect HIV infection. These tests provide negative results and preliminary positive results in minutes, compared with traditional or conventional HIV test results that can take 1 to 2 weeks to obtain. The faster availability of HIV test results enables substance abuse treatment providers to more quickly provide appropriate referrals for HIV treatment ...

This study was performed to assess the effects of short-term, extremely high-intensity intermittent exercise training on the GLUT-4 content of rat skeletal muscle. Three- to four-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats with an initial body weight ranging from 45 to 55 g were used for this study. These rats were randomly assigned to an 8-day period of high-intensity intermittent exercise training (HIT...

Many aspects of human physiology and behavior are dominated by 24 h rhythms that have a major impact on our health and well-being. For example, sleep– wake cycles, alertness and performance patterns, core body temperature rhythms, and the production of hormones such as melatonin and cortisol are all regulated by an endogenous near-24 h oscillator in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the anter...

Sensory information that arises in orofacial organs facilitates exploratory, ingestive, and defensive behaviors that are essential to overall fitness and survival. Because the hypothalamus plays an important role in the execution of these behaviors, sensory signals conveyed by the trigeminal nerve must be available to this brain structure. Recent anatomical studies have shown that a large numbe...

Range image analysis is one of the most important subjects in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition, and range image segmentation is the key of the analysis. This paper presents a range image segmentation technique based on RHT (Randomized Hough Transform). The proposed technique has the advantage of insensitivity to noise. Experiments were performed in a popular range image dat...

1 Kumar is with the Department of Computer Science, email: [email protected]. Berkelman is with the the Department of Radiology, the Wilmer Eye Institute, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, email: [email protected]. Gupta is with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, email: [email protected]. Barnes and Jensen are with the Wilmer Eye Institute, email: [email protected], psjensen@jhu...