1. Purpose: The treatment of hepatic neoplasms has undergone, in recent years, various evolution the surgical technique and extension to indication for resection. Many patients with liver tumors cannot benefit from resection due difficulty anatomical site lesion.Of these patients, only some can ex vivo resection, which consists a complete hepatectomy, bench tumor self-transplant. 2. Materials m...

Abstract Intraportal infusion of islets initiates an innate immune response termed instant blood-mediated inflammatory reaction (IBMIR) that is responsible for significant islet mass peritransplant. We herein used thrombomodulin (TM) as a multifaceted regulator to mitigate IBMIR prevent the destruction in minimal syngeneic intraportal transplantation model. A novel form TM molecule chimeric wit...

OpenTuner can help users achieve better or more portable performance in their speci c domain through program autotuning. A key challenge for users seeking good autotuning performance in OpenTuner is selecting a search approach appropriate for problem. However, not only are current in-situ learning search approaches not robust enough to handle all search spaces, but there are also too many possi...

BACKGROUND This study was to validate the feasibility of using clinical 3.0T MRI to monitor the migration of autotransplanted bone marrow (BM)-derived stem-progenitor cells (SPC) to the injured arteries of near-human sized swine for potential cell-based arterial repair. METHODOLOGY The study was divided into two phases. For in vitro evaluation, BM cells were extracted from the iliac crests of...

Backgroud: This study was to validate the feasibility of using clinical 3.0T MRI to monitor the migration of autotransplanted bone marrow (BM)-derived stem-progenitor cells (SPC) to the injured arteries of near-human sized swine for potential cell-based arterial repair. Methodology: The study was divided into two phases. For in vitro evaluation, BM cells were extracted from the iliac crests of ...

This study examined the effects of ascorbic acid on the attenuation of an ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury after a canine renal transplantation. Eight beagle dogs were subjected to a renal auto-transplantation followed by the administration of ascorbic acid (treatment group) and the same amount of vehicle (physiological saline, control group). Blood samples were collected from these dogs to pe...