Throughout the world new hospitals have been designed and built for high quality medical care. Few have been designed to be beautiful. We believe each hospital should enhance the lives of patients, visitors, and staff by including works of art. Works of art cost money, yet money spent on contemporary works provides employment for painters, sculptors, and craftsmen and also for the manufacturers...

by regarding the rest of pictorial and written documents of sassanid and sogdian art – sogdiana was one of the states under the supervision of sassanid emperors at many different period - this research is going tosurvey the effects of sassanid art on the sogdian mural paintings; the statistic category of this research is 3 sample of sassanid stone relief and mural painting as well as 6 sample o...

Within the past year-and-a-half, severSI works of art have been commissioned, executed, and instafled at ISI@’s corp~ rate headquarters in Philadelphia. These have included “The Cathedraf of Man,” a 310-square foot (27.9 sq. m.) mural by Guillermo Wagner Granizo; 1 “Communication, ” an 8’6” x 30’ (259.08cm x 914.4cm) sgrafitto mural by Joseph Slawintil; 1 and “The History, Gods, Myths, Rituals,...

it is obvious, that human react toward its surrounding and environment, and the dominant part of people's behavior is a reaction manner. human receives the visual element of his environment by the optic sense, and then the mind react to these visual information, so it may have good or bad respond to them, depending on the quality of the visual information received. it is the basis of all e...

Mural cells are essential components of blood vessels and are necessary for normal development, homeostasis, and organ function. Alterations in mural cell density or the stable attachment of mural cells to the endothelium is associated with several human diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, venous malformation, and hereditary stroke. In addition mural cells are implicated in regulating tumor ...

Blood vessel walls are built and maintained by 2 interdependent cell types, endothelial cells and mural cells. Signals exchanged between these 2 cell types control the formation, maturation, remodeling, and function of microvascular networks. Mural cells are either pericytes in the microvasculature or smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in larger vessels. Interactions between endothelial cells and mural...

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BACKGROUND Blood vessels comprise endothelial cells, mural cells (pericytes/vascular smooth muscle cells) and basement membrane. During angiogenesis, mural cells are recruited to sprouting endothelial cells and define a stabilizing context, comprising cell-cell contacts, secreted growth factors and extracellular matrix components, that drives vessel maturation and resistance to anti-angiogenic ...

OBJECTIVE The focus of this study was to investigate the role of connexin (Cx) 45 in endothelial-induced mural cell differentiation. METHODS AND RESULTS We created mural cell precursors that stably express only Cx45 in Cx43-deficient mesenchymal cells (ReCx45), and used our in vitro model of blood vessel assembly to assess the capacity of this Cx to support endothelial-induced mural cell diff...