OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to detect vulnerable coronary plaques by color fluorescent angioscopy. BACKGROUND Collagen fibers (CFs) mainly provide mechanical support to coronary plaques. Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL) induces macrophage proliferation, which in turn destroy CFs while accumulating lipids. As such, demonstration of the absence of CFs, deposition of lipids, a...

In the complex situation of a real archives or library, the contribution that air pollution makes to the fading of images is not easy to measure or observe. The effects are subtle and occur slowly, blending in with the action of light, heat, humidity, and the inherent stability (or instability) of each individual type of photograph. We are not able to say what percentage of the fading of a colo...

scholars concern about colors application in poetic images, because color is considered one of the basic principles in images literary aesthetic field. in contemporary literature, poets portray beauty images by colors and indeed the presence of colors in nazok almalaeke poems is one of the basic rhetorical and expressive principles as other contemporary poets. in nazok almalaeke poems white is ...

although wild safflower (c.oxyacantha, 2n=24) has not been studied to a very large extent, yet it is believed that it can be used as an important source of biotic and abiotic stress resistance genes for improvement of cultivated safflower (c.tinctorius l., 2n=2x=24). in this study, the crossability between these two (cultivated and wild safflower) species was evaluated as based upon morphology ...

Spinach downy mildew, caused by the biotrophic oomycete Peronospora effusa, is an economically important disease that is found in all spinach growing regions of the US. To effectively predict disease risk we need to understand the response of P. effusa to different environmental conditions. We conducted several germination assays, exposing P. effusa sporangia to different temperature and lighti...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the brain activation patterns in response to thehuman color preference by using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri). a total of 31 healthyhumans without color blindness were participated in this study. the brain activation was induced by viewingof eight different colors: black, gray, blue, green, earthy yellow, red, yellow and white. the q...